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Prosocial Behavior Can Moderate the Relationship Between Rumination and Mindfulness

OBJECTIVE: Rumination, which is a coping style to distress, has become a common mode of thinking about mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety. Improving mindfulness is an effective way to help people cope with rumination. Individuals who had higher prosocial behaviors reported a high level...

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Autores principales: Meng, Yao, Meng, Gang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7180177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32362846
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00289
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description OBJECTIVE: Rumination, which is a coping style to distress, has become a common mode of thinking about mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety. Improving mindfulness is an effective way to help people cope with rumination. Individuals who had higher prosocial behaviors reported a high level of mindfulness. This study aimed to explore whether prosocial behavior helps individuals with high-level rumination improve their mindfulness, and explain the reason why prosocial behavior can influence the relationship between mindfulness and rumination. METHODS: Introducing prosocial behavior situations, the first study chose 51 high-level rumination and 53 low-level rumination participants and measured the influence of prosocial behavior on mindful attention awareness in the present moment. In the second study, a questionnaire was conducted among 261 participants to explore the moderating effect of prosocial behavior between rumination and mindfulness. RESULTS: In individuals with high-level rumination, ΔMAAS (mindful attention awareness scale) (posttest-baseline) scores in the prosocial behavior condition were significantly higher compared to those in the control condition (p=0.003). Meanwhile, prosocial behavior played a moderating effect between reflective pondering of rumination and mindfulness (R(2) (=) 0.03, p=0.004). CONCLUSIONS: Encouraging prosocial behavior is an effective way to improve mindfulness in highly ruminative individuals.
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spelling pubmed-71801772020-05-01 Prosocial Behavior Can Moderate the Relationship Between Rumination and Mindfulness Meng, Yao Meng, Gang Front Psychiatry Psychiatry OBJECTIVE: Rumination, which is a coping style to distress, has become a common mode of thinking about mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety. Improving mindfulness is an effective way to help people cope with rumination. Individuals who had higher prosocial behaviors reported a high level of mindfulness. This study aimed to explore whether prosocial behavior helps individuals with high-level rumination improve their mindfulness, and explain the reason why prosocial behavior can influence the relationship between mindfulness and rumination. METHODS: Introducing prosocial behavior situations, the first study chose 51 high-level rumination and 53 low-level rumination participants and measured the influence of prosocial behavior on mindful attention awareness in the present moment. In the second study, a questionnaire was conducted among 261 participants to explore the moderating effect of prosocial behavior between rumination and mindfulness. RESULTS: In individuals with high-level rumination, ΔMAAS (mindful attention awareness scale) (posttest-baseline) scores in the prosocial behavior condition were significantly higher compared to those in the control condition (p=0.003). Meanwhile, prosocial behavior played a moderating effect between reflective pondering of rumination and mindfulness (R(2) (=) 0.03, p=0.004). CONCLUSIONS: Encouraging prosocial behavior is an effective way to improve mindfulness in highly ruminative individuals. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7180177/ /pubmed/32362846 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00289 Text en Copyright © 2020 Meng and Meng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title Prosocial Behavior Can Moderate the Relationship Between Rumination and Mindfulness
title_full Prosocial Behavior Can Moderate the Relationship Between Rumination and Mindfulness
title_fullStr Prosocial Behavior Can Moderate the Relationship Between Rumination and Mindfulness
title_full_unstemmed Prosocial Behavior Can Moderate the Relationship Between Rumination and Mindfulness
title_short Prosocial Behavior Can Moderate the Relationship Between Rumination and Mindfulness
title_sort prosocial behavior can moderate the relationship between rumination and mindfulness
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7180177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32362846
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00289
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