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Emotion Regulation Mediates the Associations of Mindfulness on Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety in the General Population
In the last decade, clinical research on mindfulness and its positive effects on depression and anxiety have gained increased interest. Emotion regulation mediates the effects of mindfulness on mental health in clinical samples and among meditators. The present study examined whether these associati...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5605587/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28989550 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12671-017-0709-y |
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author | Freudenthaler, Laura Turba, Josephine D. Tran, Ulrich S. |
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description | In the last decade, clinical research on mindfulness and its positive effects on depression and anxiety have gained increased interest. Emotion regulation mediates the effects of mindfulness on mental health in clinical samples and among meditators. The present study examined whether these associations also generalize to the general population. Multi-group structural equation models tested with a sample of 853 adults whether difficulties in emotion regulation mediated the associations between overall mindfulness in addition to the Observe facet with symptoms of depression and anxiety and whether associations were similar among men and women. Emotion regulation partially mediated the associations of overall mindfulness with symptoms of depression and anxiety; associations with Observe were fully mediated. The magnitude of associations was similar among men and women. Mindfulness exerts positive effects on mental health among the general population mostly via improving emotion regulation. The training of mindfulness and emotion regulation may thus benefit mental health not only in clinical populations but also in the general population. Venues for further research are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-56055872017-10-04 Emotion Regulation Mediates the Associations of Mindfulness on Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety in the General Population Freudenthaler, Laura Turba, Josephine D. Tran, Ulrich S. Mindfulness (N Y) Original Paper In the last decade, clinical research on mindfulness and its positive effects on depression and anxiety have gained increased interest. Emotion regulation mediates the effects of mindfulness on mental health in clinical samples and among meditators. The present study examined whether these associations also generalize to the general population. Multi-group structural equation models tested with a sample of 853 adults whether difficulties in emotion regulation mediated the associations between overall mindfulness in addition to the Observe facet with symptoms of depression and anxiety and whether associations were similar among men and women. Emotion regulation partially mediated the associations of overall mindfulness with symptoms of depression and anxiety; associations with Observe were fully mediated. The magnitude of associations was similar among men and women. Mindfulness exerts positive effects on mental health among the general population mostly via improving emotion regulation. The training of mindfulness and emotion regulation may thus benefit mental health not only in clinical populations but also in the general population. Venues for further research are discussed. Springer US 2017-03-28 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5605587/ /pubmed/28989550 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12671-017-0709-y Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Freudenthaler, Laura Turba, Josephine D. Tran, Ulrich S. Emotion Regulation Mediates the Associations of Mindfulness on Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety in the General Population |
title | Emotion Regulation Mediates the Associations of Mindfulness on Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety in the General Population |
title_full | Emotion Regulation Mediates the Associations of Mindfulness on Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety in the General Population |
title_fullStr | Emotion Regulation Mediates the Associations of Mindfulness on Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety in the General Population |
title_full_unstemmed | Emotion Regulation Mediates the Associations of Mindfulness on Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety in the General Population |
title_short | Emotion Regulation Mediates the Associations of Mindfulness on Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety in the General Population |
title_sort | emotion regulation mediates the associations of mindfulness on symptoms of depression and anxiety in the general population |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5605587/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28989550 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12671-017-0709-y |
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