Mindfulness and Perceptions of Stress as a Parent: A Look into the Five Facets of Mindfulness

dc.contributor.authorMihacsi, Marilyn
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-20T16:33:49Z
dc.date.available2016-10-20T16:33:49Z
dc.date.issued2016-03
dc.description35 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Psychology and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Science, Spring 2016.en_US
dc.description.abstractMindfulness has been regarded as highly effective in the prediction and reduction of stress in a variety of populations. The integration of mindfulness into a parenting framework has been of special interest as new parents are exposed to a variety of stressors. It is thus important to examine factors predictive of decreased parental stress. Mindfulness is broken down into measurable facets by the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) which is a validated self-report questionnaire for measuring dispositional mindfulness. The purpose of this study was to investigate how the five facets of mindfulness predicted parental stress, as reported by the Parental Stress Scales (PSS), in a sample of 87 mothers of healthy 12-week-old infants. Multiple regression analyses revealed that the non-judgement of inner experience facet of mindfulness significantly predicted parental stress. The facets of mindfulness and the role of non-judgement in the appraisal of parental stress are discussed alongside future directions for research.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/20336
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUniversity of Oregon theses, Dept. of Psychology, Honors College, B.S., 2016;
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USen_US
dc.subjectPsychologyen_US
dc.subjectMindfulnessen_US
dc.subjectStress perceptionen_US
dc.subjectStressen_US
dc.subjectParentingen_US
dc.subjectMindful parentingen_US
dc.subjectFive Facetsen_US
dc.titleMindfulness and Perceptions of Stress as a Parent: A Look into the Five Facets of Mindfulnessen_US
dc.typeThesis / Dissertationen_US

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