Shine, Lauren (2012) The Relationship Between Mindfulness Skills and Parenting Efficacy in the Self-Reports of Parental Stress. Coursework Masters thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
Research indicates that outcomes for parents with low parenting efficacy and significant stress can be dire and interventions to improve parenting efficacy and alleviate stress are many. In the search for skills that might improve parenting efficacy and reduce stress there is little research investigating the role of mindfulness skills. This study investigates the relationship between the mindfulness skills of acting with awareness and accepting without judgement in enhancing parenting self-efficacy and consequently reducing parental stress. One hundred and seventy one parents between the ages of 20 to 55 with children under the age of 18 living at home, completed the Parenting Stress Scale (Berry & Jones, 1995), the Efficacy subscale of the Parenting Sense of Competency scale (Gibaud-Wallston & Wandersman, 1978, as cited in Johnston & Mash, 1989), and Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills (Baer, Smith, Allen, et al., 2004). Pearson correlation analysis indicated a negative relationship between parents’ mindfulness skills of acting with awareness and accepting without judgement, and parental stress. The mindfulness skill accepting without judgement alone was also significantly negatively correlated with parental stress and significantly positively correlated with parenting efficacy. Finding support parenting efficacy as a significant partial mediator of the relationship between both acting with awareness and accepting without judgement and parental stress. These findings support education of mindfulness skills to increase parenting efficacy and decrease parental stress and also provide evidence for the link between mindfulness skills and personal efficacy in theoretical models of mindfulness.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Coursework Masters) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Sciences - Department of Psychology (Up to 30 Jun 2013) |
| Supervisors: | Grace Pretty |
| Qualification: | Masters of Psychology (Clinical) |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Oct 2025 23:04 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Oct 2025 23:04 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | mindfulness ; parenting efficacy ; parental stress |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52756 |
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