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A mediation model of mindfulness and decentering: sequential psychological constructs or one and the same?

BACKGROUND: Mindfulness and decentering are closely related processes both assumed to promote well-being. While some researchers claim that mindfulness and decentering can be clearly differentiated others suggest to use these concepts interchangeably. The precise relation between mindfulness and dec...

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Autores principales: Gecht, Judith, Kessel, Ramona, Forkmann, Thomas, Gauggel, Siegfried, Drueke, Barbara, Scherer, Anne, Mainz, Verena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4362640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25815189
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2050-7283-2-18
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author Gecht, Judith
Kessel, Ramona
Forkmann, Thomas
Gauggel, Siegfried
Drueke, Barbara
Scherer, Anne
Mainz, Verena
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Kessel, Ramona
Forkmann, Thomas
Gauggel, Siegfried
Drueke, Barbara
Scherer, Anne
Mainz, Verena
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description BACKGROUND: Mindfulness and decentering are closely related processes both assumed to promote well-being. While some researchers claim that mindfulness and decentering can be clearly differentiated others suggest to use these concepts interchangeably. The precise relation between mindfulness and decentering remains unclear and therefore the present study aims to determine the relation between mindfulness and decentering. METHODS: In a structural equation modeling framework, a mediation model was tested among a sample group of 495 university students (average age 20.8 years, 30.3% female). RESULTS: The identified model shows an acceptable fit to the data and illustrates the role of decentering as a mediator of the relationship between mindfulness and depressive symptoms by complementary mediation and indirect-only mediation. CONCLUSION: The present results cannot sustain previous research, which converted mindfulness and decentering into one single variable. Rather the data suggests to treat mindfulness and decentering as two separable concepts and to regard decentering as an important working mechanism of mindfulness.
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spelling pubmed-43626402015-03-26 A mediation model of mindfulness and decentering: sequential psychological constructs or one and the same? Gecht, Judith Kessel, Ramona Forkmann, Thomas Gauggel, Siegfried Drueke, Barbara Scherer, Anne Mainz, Verena BMC Psychol Research Article BACKGROUND: Mindfulness and decentering are closely related processes both assumed to promote well-being. While some researchers claim that mindfulness and decentering can be clearly differentiated others suggest to use these concepts interchangeably. The precise relation between mindfulness and decentering remains unclear and therefore the present study aims to determine the relation between mindfulness and decentering. METHODS: In a structural equation modeling framework, a mediation model was tested among a sample group of 495 university students (average age 20.8 years, 30.3% female). RESULTS: The identified model shows an acceptable fit to the data and illustrates the role of decentering as a mediator of the relationship between mindfulness and depressive symptoms by complementary mediation and indirect-only mediation. CONCLUSION: The present results cannot sustain previous research, which converted mindfulness and decentering into one single variable. Rather the data suggests to treat mindfulness and decentering as two separable concepts and to regard decentering as an important working mechanism of mindfulness. BioMed Central 2014-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4362640/ /pubmed/25815189 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2050-7283-2-18 Text en © Gecht et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Gecht, Judith
Kessel, Ramona
Forkmann, Thomas
Gauggel, Siegfried
Drueke, Barbara
Scherer, Anne
Mainz, Verena
A mediation model of mindfulness and decentering: sequential psychological constructs or one and the same?
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title_fullStr A mediation model of mindfulness and decentering: sequential psychological constructs or one and the same?
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title_short A mediation model of mindfulness and decentering: sequential psychological constructs or one and the same?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4362640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25815189
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2050-7283-2-18
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