The effectiveness of mindful parenting on cognitive and behavioral emotion regulation in mothers of children with hearing loss

This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of mindful parenting on the cognitive and behavioral emotion regulation in mothers of children with hearing loss.

The present research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test, post-test and follow-up design. The statistical population included all mothers of children with hearing loss aged 4 to 6 years in Tehran in 2021, who were selected by a simple random method from deaf and hearing loss centers and associations. The sample size was 30 people who were randomly divided into experimental and control groups and each group had 15 people. The experimental group participated in ten 90-minute sessions, 3 sessions a week, in the mindfulness parenting training program, while the control group did not participate in this program. The research instruments included the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (Garnefski and et al., 2009) and the behavioral emotion regulation questionnaire (Kraaij and Garnefski, 2019). Subjects were evaluated using these questionnaires in pre-test, post-test and follow-up stages. Data were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance.

The results showed that the mindful parenting program had a significant effect on the cognitive and behavioral emotion regulation in mothers of children with hearing loss (P<0.05).

Based on the findings, it can be concluded that the conscious parenting program improves the cognitive and behavioral emotion regulation in mothers of children with hearing loss.