The impact of parent mindfulness on family health and child psychosocial well-being

 描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的NRSA项目将是研究培训计划的一部分，以准备PI作为大学或医学院环境中的研究科学家的职业生涯，专门研究父母对家庭健康及其子女健康轨迹的影响。从广义上讲，拟议的项目旨在显着推进我们对父母的正念及其对家庭系统的影响，以及父母的正念可能在儿童心理社会发展中发挥的因果作用的理解。拟议的NRSA将测试一个模型（见下图1），该模型基于Bogels和Restifo（2014），大仲马（2005），邓肯等人（2009）和Kabat-Zinn（1997）的工作，该模型假定更高水平的父母正念通过三个相互关联的路径促进积极的儿童心理社会发展：（1）父母幸福感的增加（例如，自我滋养的注意力，焦虑和抑郁症状的减少，和/或养育压力的减少）;（2）父母间关系质量的改善（例如，关系满意度增加，共同养育支持增加，共同养育冲突减少），和3）适应性养育增加（例如，父母-子女互动中父母反应性的降低，以及积极养育的增加和消极养育的减少），直接或间接地通过增强父母幸福感和/或父母间关系质量。目前的建议是一个重要的创新扩展，通过检查这个理论模型在六个纵向样本的家庭（N = 1,080），在三个不同的儿童发展阶段，和临床父母和儿童人群以及社区样本。这种多研究纵向方法大大提高了调查结果的广度和可信度，并使调查结果更广泛地适用于家庭和儿童。纵向影响研究 父母性格正念对家庭健康和儿童心理健康的影响将为在不同背景下为家庭和儿童制定基于正念的计划提供信息。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed NRSA project will be part of a research training plan to prepare the PI for a career as a research scientist in a university or medical school setting, specializing in research on the influence parents have on family health and their children's health trajectory. Broadly, the proposed project aims to significantly advance our understanding of parental mindfulness and its influences on family systems and the causal role that parental mindfulness may play in child psychosocial development. The proposed NRSA will test a model (see Figure 1, below), based on work by Bogels and Restifo (2014), Dumas (2005), Duncan et al (2009), and Kabat-Zinn (1997), which posits that higher levels of parental mindfulness facilitate positive child psychosocial development through three interrelated paths: (1) Increases in parental well-being (e.g., self-nourishing attention, reductions in anxiety and depressive symptoms, and/or reductions in parenting stress); (2) improvements in inter-parental relationship quality (e.g., increases in relationship satisfaction, increases in co-parenting support, and decreases in co-parenting conflict), and 3) increases in adaptive parenting (e.g., reductions in parental reactivity within parent-child interactions, and increases in positive and decreases in negative parenting), either directly or indirectly through enhanced parental well-being and/or inter-parental relationship quality. The current proposal represents an important innovative extension by examining this theoretical model across six longitudinal samples of families (N = 1,080), across three different child development stages, and among both clinical parent and child populations as well as with community samples. Such a multi-study longitudinal approach greatly enhances both the breadth and confidence in findings as well as the broad scale generalizability of findings to families and children. Research on the longitudinal influence of parental dispositional mindfulness on family health and child psychosocial well-being will inform the development of mindfulness-based programs for families and children across diverse contexts.