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Cumulative Childhood Trauma and Couple Satisfaction: Examining the Mediating Role of Mindfulness
OBJECTIVES: Cumulative childhood trauma (CCT) survivors are at a higher risk of suffering from interpersonal problems including couple dissatisfaction. Dispositional mindfulness is increasingly proposed as a potential explanatory mechanism of post-traumatic symptomatology and has been documented as...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7334265/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32655706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12671-020-01390-x |
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author | Gobout, Natacha Morissette Harvey, Francis Cyr, Gaëlle Bélanger, Claude |
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description | OBJECTIVES: Cumulative childhood trauma (CCT) survivors are at a higher risk of suffering from interpersonal problems including couple dissatisfaction. Dispositional mindfulness is increasingly proposed as a potential explanatory mechanism of post-traumatic symptomatology and has been documented as a predictor of couple satisfaction. Most authors operationalize mindfulness as a multidimensional disposition comprised of five facets (i.e., Describing, Observing, Non-judgment of inner experiences, Non-reactivity, and Acting with awareness), but the role of these facets in the link between CCT and couple satisfaction has yet to be understood. This study aimed to assess mindfulness as a potential mediator in the relationship between CCT and couple satisfaction and to examine the distinctive contributions of mindfulness facets in this mediation. METHODS: A sample of 330 participants from the community completed measures of couple satisfaction, mindfulness, and exposure to eight types of childhood maltreatment experiences. RESULTS: Path analysis results revealed that mindfulness mediated the relationship between CCT and couple satisfaction. More precisely, two mindfulness facets acted as specific mediators, namely, Describing and Non-judgment of inner experiences. The final integrative model explained 14% (p < .001) of the variance in couple satisfaction. CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest that mindfulness may be a meaningful mechanism in the link between CCT and couple satisfaction. They also highlight that description of inner experiences and a non-judgmental attitude of these experiences may act as key components to understand the influence of CCT on adults’ lower couple satisfaction. |
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spelling | pubmed-73342652020-07-09 Cumulative Childhood Trauma and Couple Satisfaction: Examining the Mediating Role of Mindfulness Gobout, Natacha Morissette Harvey, Francis Cyr, Gaëlle Bélanger, Claude Mindfulness (N Y) Original Paper OBJECTIVES: Cumulative childhood trauma (CCT) survivors are at a higher risk of suffering from interpersonal problems including couple dissatisfaction. Dispositional mindfulness is increasingly proposed as a potential explanatory mechanism of post-traumatic symptomatology and has been documented as a predictor of couple satisfaction. Most authors operationalize mindfulness as a multidimensional disposition comprised of five facets (i.e., Describing, Observing, Non-judgment of inner experiences, Non-reactivity, and Acting with awareness), but the role of these facets in the link between CCT and couple satisfaction has yet to be understood. This study aimed to assess mindfulness as a potential mediator in the relationship between CCT and couple satisfaction and to examine the distinctive contributions of mindfulness facets in this mediation. METHODS: A sample of 330 participants from the community completed measures of couple satisfaction, mindfulness, and exposure to eight types of childhood maltreatment experiences. RESULTS: Path analysis results revealed that mindfulness mediated the relationship between CCT and couple satisfaction. More precisely, two mindfulness facets acted as specific mediators, namely, Describing and Non-judgment of inner experiences. The final integrative model explained 14% (p < .001) of the variance in couple satisfaction. CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest that mindfulness may be a meaningful mechanism in the link between CCT and couple satisfaction. They also highlight that description of inner experiences and a non-judgmental attitude of these experiences may act as key components to understand the influence of CCT on adults’ lower couple satisfaction. Springer US 2020-05-11 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7334265/ /pubmed/32655706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12671-020-01390-x Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Gobout, Natacha Morissette Harvey, Francis Cyr, Gaëlle Bélanger, Claude Cumulative Childhood Trauma and Couple Satisfaction: Examining the Mediating Role of Mindfulness |
title | Cumulative Childhood Trauma and Couple Satisfaction: Examining the Mediating Role of Mindfulness |
title_full | Cumulative Childhood Trauma and Couple Satisfaction: Examining the Mediating Role of Mindfulness |
title_fullStr | Cumulative Childhood Trauma and Couple Satisfaction: Examining the Mediating Role of Mindfulness |
title_full_unstemmed | Cumulative Childhood Trauma and Couple Satisfaction: Examining the Mediating Role of Mindfulness |
title_short | Cumulative Childhood Trauma and Couple Satisfaction: Examining the Mediating Role of Mindfulness |
title_sort | cumulative childhood trauma and couple satisfaction: examining the mediating role of mindfulness |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7334265/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32655706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12671-020-01390-x |
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