Date of Award

2021

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Barton, Michelle

Keywords

bibliography, theses, government publication (state, provincial, territorial, dependent), born-digital, Electronic Thesis or Dissertation

Area of Concentration

Psychology

Abstract

The main goal of the study was to investigate the possible relationship between mindful parenting and children's executive functioning. It was hypothesized that mindful parenting would be negatively associated with children’s rate of reported executive dysfunction. It was also hypothesized that boys would exhibit greater executive dysfunction than girls, and that 4-year-olds would exhibit greater executive dysfunction than 5-year-olds. Parents of children of the age 4-5 years were invited to participate in an online survey, and reported on their mindful parenting behaviors via the Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting scale (IEM-P), and their children’s executive dysfunction via the Childhood Executive Functioning Inventory (CHEXI). The results were unable to support the main hypothesis, as mindful parenting scores generally did not significantly correlate with children’s executive functioning scores. The results also did not support the hypothesis that boys would exhibit greater executive dysfunction than girls, and that 4-year-olds would exhibit greater executive dysfunction than 5-year-olds. These results are possibly due to methodological and sampling issues, and more research is needed to conclude if there is a relation between mindful parenting and preschool-aged children’s executive functioning.

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