Translation and Validation of a Persian Version of the Mindfulness in Parenting Questionnaire: P-MIPQ

Elham Baghban Baghestan; Fatemeh Shahabizadeh; Toktam Tabatabaee

doi:10.18502/htaa.v4i3.6348

Elham Baghban Baghestan PhD candidate in Educational Psychology, Psychology Department, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran
Fatemeh Shahabizadeh Ph.D. in Psychology, Associate Professor, Psychology Department, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran (corresponding author)
Toktam Tabatabaee Ph.D. in Psychology, Associate Professor, Psychology Department, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/htaa.v4i3.6348

Keywords: Mindfulness, Parenting, Validity, Reliability, Iran.

Abstract

Background and Objective: parenting is an important issue in the growth process of children that affects their health. A new approach in parenting styles is mindful parenting. mindfulness in parenting means taking care of the children with no judgmental approach and having an open welcoming attitude toward children’s actions in the very moment parents and offspring(s) are living in. This study aimed to localize the MIPQ questionnaire into Persian language through translation and validation in order to create a useful valid measure for assessing mindfulness in parenting in Iran.

Methods and materials: the MIPQ- original version- was translated through forward-backward translation into Persian, and then was pilot-tested on mothers of children aged 7-12 after confirming the validity of the measure using CVR-CVI method. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to ensure the item-development validity of the measure. To evaluate the factor structure of data, AMOSE (version 24) software was used. In order to assess the reliability of translated version 15 mothers included in the first phase of the study. They filled out the MIPQ questionnaire, and also they filled out simultaneously “parenting scale” by Arnold and O’leary -1993 and MMAS by Brown and Ryan-2003. After having the measure confirmed regarding validity and reliability, it was distributed among 400 mothers of which 306 returned the questionnaire fully administered.

Results: Confirmatory factor analysis assessed and it indicated that the two-factor model in the original measure was of a good fit. The total score of the questionnaire and the scores of the two domains (‘Mindfulness’ and ‘Being in the moment with the child’) were correlated significantly positive with the total score of the MAAS and PS. The CVR-CVI of the questionnaire was also confirmed.

Conclusion: regarding psychometrics of the measure, according results of our study, it seems that the questionnaire benefits from a highly standard structure and content as well. As one could notice, this study is the second effort for translation and validation of MIPQ which in both the measure could meet the criteria’s requirements. Therefore, it seems that the measure could be a useful standard questionnaire for evaluating mindfulness in parenting. More research is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of the measure (P-MIPQ) in different kind of people.