Mindfulness-Based Interventions as School-Based Mental Health Promoting Programs

Don't worry, be happy: The role of positive emotionality and adaptive emotion regulation strategies for youth depressive symptoms

“…One explanation for these null findings is that the use of these strategies may be less related to reactive temperament traits. Our findings showed that the ER strategies most often implemented in therapeutic programmes targeting depression, that is reappraisal and acceptance (Stark & Kendall, ; Van der Gucht et al ., ), did not distinctly mediate the temperament–depressive symptoms relationship. Perhaps reappraisal and acceptance may need to be trained more explicitly as they are more complex and thus not automatically adopted in all youth (Hofmann, Schmeichel, & Baddeley, ; Schäfer et al ., ).…”

“…Research suggests that acceptance promotes improved mental health outcomes (Heffner, Eifert, Parker, Hernandez, & Sperry, ). Furthermore, acceptance is an important component in mindfulness‐based therapies (Teasdale et al ., ), which have been demonstrated to improve psychological functioning in adolescents (Bogels, Hoogstad, van Dun, de Schutter, & Restifo, ; Van der Gucht, Kuppens, Maex, & Raes, ) and to promote positive emotions (Jimenez, Niles, & Park, ).…”