Experiential Avoidance and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies as the Mediators in the Relationship Between Mindfulness and Social Anxiety Disorder Symptoms

Abstract

Objective:The current study seeks to investigate the mechanisms through which mindfulness is related to social anxiety symptoms in a clinical sample of adults by examining whether experiential avoidance and specific cognitive emotion regulation strategies (rumination, catastrophizing, and reappraisal) mediate associations between mindfulness and social anxiety symptoms.Methods: Statistical population of this study contained all the students with social anxiety disorder in Lorestan University in the academic year 2016-2017. With purposive sampling method, 104 students with social anxiety disorder were selected. Subjects were assessed by Social Phobia Inventory, Beck depression inventory II, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Social Anxiety Acceptance and Action Questionnaire, and Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire. Data were analyzed by SPSS and AMOS 22 software using structural equation modeling, and the model fits the clinical sample well.Results: In the model, the index demonstrated good fit (X 2 24 =36.13, P=0.053, GFI=0.92, AGFI=0.86, CFI=0.97, NFI=0.92, TLI=0.96, RMSEA=0.07, CMIN/df=1.50), so that mindfulness facets were directly associated with Sognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies (SERD) and experiential avoidance. It was also found that cognitive emotion regulation strategies and experiential avoidance were associated with social anxiety symptoms. Finally, the results indicated that mindfulness had indirect effects on the social anxiety symptoms that were mediated by cognitive emotion regulation strategies and experiential avoidance. Conclusion:Our findings raise important implications for clinical health psychologists when tailoring mindfulness-based treatments for SAD patients.

Positive Cognitive Reappraisal in Stress Resilience, Mental Health, and Well-Being: A Comprehensive Systematic Review

“…Although some samples did not present any relationship of PCR with anxiety (Bruggink et al, 2016;Fresco et al, 2007;Nowlan et al, 2016), the overall picture suggests an inverse relation with small-to-medium effect size between PCR and anxiety (Aldao & Nolen-Hoeksema, 2010;Andreotti et al, 2013;Chahar Mahali, Beshai, & Wolfe, 2020;Dennis, 2007;Everaert & Joormann, 2019;Garnefski et al, 2002;A. J. Johnson & Tottenham, 2015;Juang et al, 2016;Krafft et al, 2019;Lopez & Denny, 2019;Martin & Dahlen, 2005;McKee et al, 2019;Memedovic et al, 2010;Miklosi et al, 2014;Miu et al, 2013;Nowlan et al, 2016;Powell, 2018;Rezaei & Ramaghani, 2018;Soto et al, 2012), with participants who additionally report low use of expressive suppression scoring lowest in anxiety (Eftekhari et al, 2009). However, one study only found this relation at increased stressor load, whereas PCR was even related to higher state anxiety and unrelated to trait anxiety at lower levels of stress (Moore et al, 2008).…”

Hubungan antara Mindfulness dengan Regulasi Emosi pada Guru yang Mengajar Anak Berkebutuhan Khusus

“…Penelitian-penelitian sebelumnya juga menjelaskan bahwa keterkaitan antara regulasi emosi dengan mindfulness dikarenakan regulasi emosi berperan sebagai variabel mediator bukan sebagai variabel terikat seperti penelitian yang dilakukan oleh Desrosiers, Vine, Klemanski, dan Nolen-Hoeksema (2013) meskipun penelitian menunjukkan hubungan yang signifikan antara mindfulness dan penilaian ulang kognitif, penelitian ini mengklarifikasi bahwa penilaian ulang kognitif adalah mediator dari trait mindfulness pada depresi. Begitu pula dengan penelitian Rezaei dan Ramaghani (2018) menjadikan regulasi emosi sebagai mediator mindfulness, sehingga dalam penelitian ini dimensi mindfulness melalui regulasi emosi memiliki hubungan yang signifikan dengan gejala kecemasan sosial (Rezaei & Ramaghani, 2018).…”

Psychometric Properties of the German Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire (BEAQ)

“…There is emerging evidence that the transdiagnostic vulnerabilities overlap (e.g., Spinhoven et al, 2016;Spinhoven et al, 2017) and may share a common underlying basis (e.g., Mansell & McEvoy, 2017), which makes the assessment and discrimination of EA (and other vulnerabilities) challenging. The relationship between EA and mindfulness highlights this: EA and mindfulness show conceptual overlap and have been portrayed as beneficial/ dysfunctional counterparts of each other (Mitmansgruber et al, 2009), they are correlated (Baer et al, 2006;Masuda & Tully, 2012;Moore et al, 2009;Thompson & Waltz, 2010) and seem to be intertwined in therapy (Hooper et al, 2010;Kearney et al, 2012;Parsons et al, 2019;Rezaei & Hosseini Ramaghani, 2018).…”