Mindful parenting, emotional regulation, and parental stress on the parents of children with intellectual developmental disorder

Abstract

Parental stress is an issue that is commonly faced by the parents of children with Intellectual Developmental Disorder (IDD). If parental stress cannot be handled, it will develop into child harassment. Previous research presents a depiction that high leveled-mindful parenting may increase emotional regulation, and corelate with the decrease of parental stress level. This research aims to find out the correlation between mindful parenting and parental stress in children with IDD, in which emotional regulation presents as a mediating variable. This research is conducted to 76 parents’ of children with IDD (aged from 4 to 13, categorized as lo leveled-IDD), aged minimum 25 years, education level equals to High School (SMA).  Measurement tool applied in this research is Parental Stress Scale, Emotional Regulation Scale, and Mindful Parenting Scale. Statistic test shows that there is an influence between mindful parenting and parental stress, mediated by emotional regulation (total effect index = -0.6180, p. 0.000 < 0.01). The variable of emotional regulation which has significance influence is cognitive reappraisal (r = -0.2685, boot LLCI, and boot UCLI = -0.4428 and -0.1200). This emotional regulation contributes influence in the value of r = 38.19%, and when it is not mediated directly by emotional regulation. The contribution of mindful parenting towards parental stress is only as high as 6.76% or this variable can also be categorized as significant (r = - 0.2601, p 0.0147 < 0.05).