The Effects of Mother's Mindfulness Training on Children's Self-Efficacy

The present study aimed to examine the effects of mothers’ mindfulness training on children’s self-efficacy. Twenty four students were selected from high schools of Baharestan (a district of Tehran) in 2014 academic year using cluster sampling method. The participants were randomly assigned into either control or experimental groups. The participants completed the General Self-efficacy Questionnaire (Scherrer et al., 1982). The mothers in the experimental group received mindfulness training for 120 minutes a session for eight weeks (one session per week). In this study, the pretest-posttest with a control group was used at a 90-day follow-up. The results of covariance analysis indicated that mothers’ mindfulness training increased the children’s self-efficacy (P