Mindful Coping Power: Comparative Effects on Children’s Reactive Aggression and Self-Regulation
| dc.contributor.author | Boxmeyer, Caroline L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Miller, Shari | |
| dc.contributor.author | Romero, Devon E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Powell, Nicole P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jones, Shannon | |
| dc.contributor.author | Qu, Lixin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tueller, Stephen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lochman, John E. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-25T23:33:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-09-25T23:33:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-08-25 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2021-09-25T23:33:33Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Coping Power (CP) is an evidence-based preventive intervention for youth with disruptive behavior problems. This study examined whether Mindful Coping Power (MCP), a novel adaptation which integrates mindfulness into CP, enhances program effects on children’s reactive aggression and self-regulation. A pilot randomized design was utilized to estimate the effect sizes for MCP versus CP in a sample of 102 child participants (fifth grade students, predominantly low-middle income, 87% Black). MCP produced significantly greater improvement in children’s self-reported dysregulation (emotional, behavioral, cognitive) than CP, including children’s perceived anger modulation. Small to moderate effects favoring MCP were also observed for improvements in child-reported inhibitory control and breath awareness and parent-reported child attentional capacity and social skills. MCP did not yield a differential effect on teacher-rated reactive aggression. CP produced a stronger effect than MCP on parent-reported externalizing behavior problems. Although MCP did not enhance program effects on children’s reactive aggression as expected, it did have enhancing effects on children’s internal, embodied experiences (self-regulation, anger modulation, breath awareness). Future studies are needed to compare MCP and CP in a large scale, controlled efficacy trial and to examine whether MCP-produced improvements in children’s internal experiences lead to improvements in their observable behavior over time. | |
| dc.description.department | Counseling | |
| dc.identifier | doi: 10.3390/brainsci11091119 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Brain Sciences 11 (9): 1119 (2021) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/684 | |
| dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 United States | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | mindfulness | |
| dc.subject | reactive aggression | |
| dc.subject | disruptive behavior | |
| dc.subject | Coping Power | |
| dc.subject | self-regulation | |
| dc.subject | prevention | |
| dc.subject | Mindful Coping Power | |
| dc.title | Mindful Coping Power: Comparative Effects on Children’s Reactive Aggression and Self-Regulation | |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |