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，旨在为PI在大学或医学院环境中的研究科学家职业生涯做准备，专门研究父母对家庭健康的影响及其子女的健康轨迹。总的来说，拟议的项目旨在显著提高我们对父母正念及其对家庭系统的影响的理解，以及父母正念在儿童心理社会发展中可能发挥的因果作用。拟议的NRSA将测试一个模型(见下图1)，该模型基于Bogels和Restifo(2014)、Dumas(2005)、Duncan et al(2009)和Kabat-Zinn(1997)的工作，该模型假设更高水平的父母正念通过三条相互关联的途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，自我营养的关注，焦虑和抑郁症状的减少，和/或父母压力的减少)；(2)父母间关系质量的改善(例如，关系满意度的增加，共同养育支持的增加，共同养育冲突的减少)，以及3)适应性父母养育的增加(例如，亲子互动中父母的反应性减少，积极和消极养育的增加和减少)，直接或间接地通过提高父母的幸福感和/或父母间关系质量。目前的提案是一项重要的创新扩展，通过在三个不同的儿童发育阶段对这一理论模型进行6个纵向家庭样本(N=1,080)的检验，并在临床父母和子女群体以及社区样本中进行检验。这种多项研究的纵向方法大大提高了调查结果的广度和信心，以及调查结果对家庭和儿童的广泛普适性。关于纵向影响的研究 父母的正念倾向对家庭健康和儿童心理社会健康的影响将有助于为不同背景下的家庭和儿童制定正念方案。

 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.