Youth's Experience of Mindful Parenting: Associations With Dispositional and Interpersonal Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Ways of Coping With Academic and Social Stress

Loading...
Thumbnail Image
File version

Version of Record (VoR)

Author(s)
Mera, Samira
Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J
Conlon, Elizabeth
Griffith University Author(s)
Primary Supervisor
Other Supervisors
Editor(s)
Date
2025
Size
File type(s)
Location
Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Mindful parenting is associated with youth's better psychological adjustment, suggesting it could also relate to the ways youth cope with stress. This study investigated how youth's experience of their parents' mindful parenting (or their perceived mindful parenting) related to their ways of coping with academic and social stressors directly, while also estimating indirect associations via three interlinked skills of dispositional mindfulness, interpersonal mindfulness, and self-compassion. METHODS: Australian university students (N = 636; aged 16-21 years) completed a survey to report their perceived mindful parenting, and their own dispositional and interpersonal mindfulness, self-compassion, perceived stress, and intentions to use adaptive and maladaptive ways of coping in response to four hypothetical stressful events (2 × academic and 2 × social). RESULTS: Perceived mindful parenting was directly associated with more adaptive and less maladaptive coping intentions across both stressor domains. Further, mindful parenting was indirectly positively associated with adaptive coping through self-compassion and interpersonal mindfulness, and indirectly negatively associated with maladaptive coping through dispositional mindfulness. Self-compassion facilitated the negative link between mindful parenting and maladaptive coping with social, but not academic, stressors. CONCLUSIONS: Youth who perceive more mindful parenting are more mindful and self-compassionate, with these skills in turn playing unique roles in more adaptive (and less maladaptive) coping intentions. These findings could be applied to design support programs for students, helping them to understand and practice personal mindfulness and self-compassion in response to a range of stressors, with a special focus also placed on upskilling youth in interpersonal mindfulness.

Journal Title

Journal of Adolescence

Conference Title
Book Title
Edition
Volume
Issue
Thesis Type
Degree Program
School
Publisher link
Patent number
Funder(s)
Grant identifier(s)
Rights Statement
Rights Statement

© 2025 The Author(s). Journal of Adolescence published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation for Professionals in Services to Adolescents. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

Item Access Status
Note

This publication has been entered in Griffith Research Online as an advance online version.

Access the data
Related item(s)
Subject
Persistent link to this record
Citation

Mera, S; Zimmer-Gembeck, MJ; Conlon, E, Youth's Experience of Mindful Parenting: Associations With Dispositional and Interpersonal Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Ways of Coping With Academic and Social Stress, Journal of Adolescence, 2025

Collections