Psychometric Properties of Mindfulness In Parenting Questionnaire (MIPQ)

The aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of McCaffrey et al.'s (2017) mindfulness parenting scale.  The participants of the study were 323 mothers of high school students (tenth to twelfth) of the four schools of Shiraz in the academic year 1399-1399 who were selected based on cluster random sampling and mindful parenting questionnaire (MIPQ), McCaffrey et al.,  2017), Academic Vitality (AB), Dehghani Zadeh and Hossein Chari (2012) and Adolescent and Adult Mindfulness (AAMS) (Drutman et al., 2018).  Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis methods and reliability methods were used to evaluate the validity.  The results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the two factors of presence with the child (minimum factor load 0.40 and maximum 0.60) and mindfulness training (minimum factor load 0.36 and maximum factor load 0.66).  The results of internal correlation were convergent validity (a relatively high correlation of 0.72 between the dimensions of presence with the child and mindful education and a high correlation of 0.86 and 0.89 between each dimension and the total score of the scale, P <0.01) and divergent scale (no  Confirms the significant relationship between academic vitality and mindful parenting).  To determine the reliability of the scale, Cronbach's alpha method was used. All coefficients (presence next to the child 0.82, mindfulness training 0.85, and total reliability coefficient 0.90) indicated acceptable internal consistency of the subscales and the total score of the scale.  The results show that the mindful parenting scale has very good validity and reliability in Iranian mothers.