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Daily parenting of children with cerebral palsy: The role of daily child behavior, parents’ daily psychological needs, and mindful parenting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2020

Lisa M. Dieleman*
Affiliation:
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Bart Soenens
Affiliation:
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Peter Prinzie
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Education & Child Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Lana De Clercq
Affiliation:
Department of Special Needs Education, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Els Ortibus
Affiliation:
Department of Development and Regeneration, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium
Sarah S.W. De Pauw
Affiliation:
Department of Special Needs Education, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
*
Author for Correspondence: Lisa M. Dieleman, Department of Developmental Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; E-mail: Lisa.Dieleman@UGent.be

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to advance the current understanding of the daily dynamics that are involved in raising a child with Cerebral Palsy (CP). Specifically, we examined the role of mindful parenting and of day-to-day variation in parents’ psychological needs and child behavior in explaining day-to-day variation in parents’ autonomy-supportive, psychologically controlling, and responsive parenting behavior. Parents (N = 58) of children with CP (Mage = 12.68 years) participated in a 7-day diary study. Multilevel analyses indicated that parents’ autonomy-supportive, psychologically controlling, and responsive behaviors fluctuate considerably between days. Further, daily fluctuations in both child behavior and parents’ own psychological needs were found to be associated with this daily variability in parenting. In addition, interindividual differences in mindful parenting were associated positively with parents’ responsiveness and negatively with psychologically controlling parenting across the week. These findings point towards the changeability of parenting behavior among parents of a child with CP and suggest that interventions targeting parenting behavior in the context of CP will be most effective when taking into account both the parents’ and the child's functioning.

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