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Relationship between Dispositional Mindfulness, Psychological Health, and Diet Quality among Healthy Midlife Adults
Mindfulness, a practice of non-judgmental awareness of present experience, has been associated with reduced eating psychopathology and emotion-driven eating. However, it remains unclear whether mindfulness relates to diet quality. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine whether dispositional...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7695007/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33172203 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12113414 |
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author | Donofry, Shannon D. Erickson, Kirk I. Levine, Michele D. Gianaros, Peter J. Muldoon, Matthew F. Manuck, Stephen B. |
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description | Mindfulness, a practice of non-judgmental awareness of present experience, has been associated with reduced eating psychopathology and emotion-driven eating. However, it remains unclear whether mindfulness relates to diet quality. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine whether dispositional mindfulness is associated with diet quality and to explore psychological factors relating dispositional mindfulness to diet quality. Community-dwelling adults (N = 406; M(age) = 43.19, SD = 7.26; M(body mass index [BMI]) = 27.08, SD = 5.28; 52% female) completed ratings of dispositional mindfulness, depressive symptoms, perceived stress, positive affect (PA), and negative affect (NA). Dietary intake was assessed using the Block Food Frequency Questionnaire, from which the 2015 Healthy Eating Index was derived. Analyses were conducted using the “lavaan” package in R with bias-corrected bootstrapped confidence intervals (BootCI). Age, sex, race, education, and BMI were entered as covariates in all models. Higher dispositional mindfulness was associated with higher diet quality (β = 0.11, p = 0.03), and this effect was mediated through lower depressive symptoms (indirect effect β = 0.06, p = 0.02, BootCI = 0.104–1.42, p = 0.03). Dispositional mindfulness was negatively correlated with perceived stress (β = −0.31, p < 0.01) and NA (β = −0.43, p < 0.01), as well as positively correlated with PA (β = −0.26, p < 0.01). However, these factors were unrelated to diet quality. These cross-sectional data provide initial evidence that dispositional mindfulness relates to diet quality among midlife adults, an effect that may be explained in part by less depressive symptomatology. Given that lifestyle behaviors in midlife are leading determinants of risk for cardiovascular disease and neurocognitive impairment in late life, interventions to enhance mindfulness in midlife may mitigate disease risk. Additional research assessing the impact of mindfulness interventions on diet quality are warranted. |
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spelling | pubmed-76950072020-11-28 Relationship between Dispositional Mindfulness, Psychological Health, and Diet Quality among Healthy Midlife Adults Donofry, Shannon D. Erickson, Kirk I. Levine, Michele D. Gianaros, Peter J. Muldoon, Matthew F. Manuck, Stephen B. Nutrients Article Mindfulness, a practice of non-judgmental awareness of present experience, has been associated with reduced eating psychopathology and emotion-driven eating. However, it remains unclear whether mindfulness relates to diet quality. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine whether dispositional mindfulness is associated with diet quality and to explore psychological factors relating dispositional mindfulness to diet quality. Community-dwelling adults (N = 406; M(age) = 43.19, SD = 7.26; M(body mass index [BMI]) = 27.08, SD = 5.28; 52% female) completed ratings of dispositional mindfulness, depressive symptoms, perceived stress, positive affect (PA), and negative affect (NA). Dietary intake was assessed using the Block Food Frequency Questionnaire, from which the 2015 Healthy Eating Index was derived. Analyses were conducted using the “lavaan” package in R with bias-corrected bootstrapped confidence intervals (BootCI). Age, sex, race, education, and BMI were entered as covariates in all models. Higher dispositional mindfulness was associated with higher diet quality (β = 0.11, p = 0.03), and this effect was mediated through lower depressive symptoms (indirect effect β = 0.06, p = 0.02, BootCI = 0.104–1.42, p = 0.03). Dispositional mindfulness was negatively correlated with perceived stress (β = −0.31, p < 0.01) and NA (β = −0.43, p < 0.01), as well as positively correlated with PA (β = −0.26, p < 0.01). However, these factors were unrelated to diet quality. These cross-sectional data provide initial evidence that dispositional mindfulness relates to diet quality among midlife adults, an effect that may be explained in part by less depressive symptomatology. Given that lifestyle behaviors in midlife are leading determinants of risk for cardiovascular disease and neurocognitive impairment in late life, interventions to enhance mindfulness in midlife may mitigate disease risk. Additional research assessing the impact of mindfulness interventions on diet quality are warranted. MDPI 2020-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7695007/ /pubmed/33172203 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12113414 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Donofry, Shannon D. Erickson, Kirk I. Levine, Michele D. Gianaros, Peter J. Muldoon, Matthew F. Manuck, Stephen B. Relationship between Dispositional Mindfulness, Psychological Health, and Diet Quality among Healthy Midlife Adults |
title | Relationship between Dispositional Mindfulness, Psychological Health, and Diet Quality among Healthy Midlife Adults |
title_full | Relationship between Dispositional Mindfulness, Psychological Health, and Diet Quality among Healthy Midlife Adults |
title_fullStr | Relationship between Dispositional Mindfulness, Psychological Health, and Diet Quality among Healthy Midlife Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Relationship between Dispositional Mindfulness, Psychological Health, and Diet Quality among Healthy Midlife Adults |
title_short | Relationship between Dispositional Mindfulness, Psychological Health, and Diet Quality among Healthy Midlife Adults |
title_sort | relationship between dispositional mindfulness, psychological health, and diet quality among healthy midlife adults |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7695007/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33172203 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12113414 |
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