Mindful Parenting, Positive Parenting, and Negative Parenting Are Associated with Dispositional Mindfulness: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Mediation on Child Outcomes

Associations between parents’ mindfulness and their parenting has been a growing area of research interest. The current meta-analysis of 24 identified studies demonstrated that mindfulness was strongly, positively correlated with mindful parenting (r=.47), moderately, positively correlated with positive parenting (r=.23), and weakly, negatively correlated with negative parenting (r=-.16).