dc.contributor.author | Psychogiou, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Legge, K | |
dc.contributor.author | Parry, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Mann, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Nath, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Ford, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Kuyken, W | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-11T15:26:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.description.abstract | Depression in parents impairs parenting and increases
the risk of psychopathology among their children.
Prevention and intervention could be informed by knowledge
of the mechanisms that break the inter-generational transmission
of psychopathology and build resilience in both parents
and their children. We used data from two independent studies
to examine whether higher levels of self-compassion were
associated with better parenting and fewer emotional and behavioral
problems in children of parents with a history of
depression. Study 1 was a pilot trial of mindfulness-based
cognitive therapy that included 38 parents with recurrent depression.
Study 2 was a longitudinal study that consisted of
160 families, including 50 mothers and 40 fathers who had a
history of depression. Families were followed up approximately
16 months after the first assessment (time 2; n = 106
families). In both studies, self-compassion was assessed with
the Self-Compassion Scale. Parents reporting higher levels of
self-compassion were more likely to attribute the cause of
their children’s behavior to external factors, were less critical,
and used fewer distressed reactions to cope with their children’s
emotions. Parents’ self-compassion was longitudinally
associated with children’s internalizing and externalizing
problems, but these associations became nonsignificant after
controlling for child gender, parent education, and depressive
symptoms. Future larger scale and experimental designs need
to examine whether interventions intended to increase selfcompassion
might reduce the use of negative parenting strategies
and thereby the inter-generational transmission of
psychopathology. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | DOI 10.1007/s12671-016-0528-6 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s12671-016-0528-6 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/21486 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag (Germany) | en_GB |
dc.rights | The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative
Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use,
distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate
credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the
Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Depression | en_GB |
dc.subject | Internalizing | en_GB |
dc.subject | Fathers | en_GB |
dc.subject | Self-compassion | en_GB |
dc.subject | Parenting | en_GB |
dc.title | Self-Compassion and parenting in mothers and fathers with depression | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2016-05-11T15:26:20Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1868-8527 | |
dc.description | Published online | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from the publisher via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Mindfulness | en_GB |