Mindfulness facets distinctively predict depressive symptoms after two years: The mediating role of rumination

Petrocchi, Nicola; Ottaviani, Cristina

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.08.017

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“…Previous longitudinal research showed that rumination mediates the effects of mindfulness on depressive symptoms (Petrocchi and Ottaviani 2016;Royuela-Colomer and Calvete 2016). Longitudinal studies on further aspects of emotion regulation, as suggested in the current study and elsewhere (e.g., Curtiss et al 2017), and of nonattachment are needed.…”

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confidence: 68%

Mechanisms of Mindfulness in the General Population

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Previous research among experienced meditators suggests that the associations of trait mindfulness with mental health are mediated by emotion regulation, body awareness, and a less static perspective of the self. The present study sought to elucidate whether this mediational model is also applicable to the general population and whether further potential mechanisms of action need to be included. Meditators and nonmeditators differ in overall mindfulness levels, but also in the structural properties of mindfulness facets. Meditation experience might bring about a change of variables that explain the associations of mindfulness with mental health. We examined the confirmatory fit of the mediational model in a large, German-speaking general population sample (N = 1133) with structural equation modeling, and investigated in an exploratory fashion whether further mediating variables needed to be included in the model. As a side goal, the structural properties of a short form of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) were re-examined. Results suggest that variables and mechanisms which mediate the associations between trait mindfulness and mental health are the same for meditators and the general population. Differences pertain to the strength and direction of some of these associations. The short-form FFMQ is recommended for further research. It was replicably shown to have a two-factor higher-order structure. Findings are discussed with regard to mindfulness training and intervention. Potential mechanisms of action may not be intervention-specific, but may also explain the links between trait mindfulness and mental health.

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Mechanisms of Mindfulness in the General Population

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“…These studies have tended to find that nonreactivity, nonjudgment and acting with awareness inversely and incrementally relate to trait worry (Curtiss & Klemanski, 2014;Fisak & von Lehe, 2012), with some studies suggesting stronger relationships for nonjudgment and nonreactivity specifically (Brown et al, 2015). Similar findings have been found for rumination, which has been linked to lower levels of nonjudgment FACETS OF MINDFULNESS AND PT 8 and acting with awareness (Kearns et al, 2016;Petrocchi & Ottaviani, 2016). Another study that administered measures of mindfulness, worry, and rumination to a large sample of Dutch undergraduates (de Bruin et al, 2012) found small-to-moderate, inverse zero-order associations between each facet (excluding the observe facet) to worry and rumination, with somewhat larger values for nonjudgment with both worry and symptom-focused rumination and nonreactivity with worry specifically.…”

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Dissociable Associations of Facets of Mindfulness with Worry, Rumination, and Transdiagnostic Perseverative Thought

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Jamal-Orozco²,

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2019

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Perseverative thought (PT) is a major mechanism of anxiety and related forms of psychopathology. Although mindfulness-based interventions show promise for reducing PT, treatment development is hindered by an incomplete understanding of the relationships between dissociable facets of mindfulness (present-moment awareness; nonjudgment of experience; nonreactivity to experience) and those of PT (worry; rumination; shared perseverative tendencies). The present study tested and replicated hypothesized relationships between facets of PT and mindfulness in three well-powered, independent samples (N = 289 undergraduate; N = 255 crowdsourced; N = 261 anxious/depressed community). Consistent with predictions, greater present-moment awareness incrementally predicted lower transdiagnostic PT, as did nonjudgment and nonreactivity. Nonreactivity was specifically inversely related to trait worry (i.e., beyond variance shared with transdiagnostic PT, rumination, and other mindfulness facets), while nonjudgment was specifically related to rumination (brooding). Findings replicated across all samples. In two samples, greater present-moment awareness unexpectedly predicted higher worry when other facets were controlled. Taken together, findings establish and replicate a link between present-moment awareness to general perseverative tendencies, with specific inverse relationships of nonreactivity and nonjudgment to worry and rumination, respectively. Future experimental research should test hypothesized causal pathways to inform theoretical models and development of transdiagnostic and personalized treatments.

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“…Although there are some contradictory findings in the previous literature, in which one study failed to find a significant effect of rumination in mediating the mindfulness-depressive symptoms relationship(Kearns et al, 2016), some newer studies provide additional evidence supporting its mediating effects. For instance,Petrocchi and Ottaviani (2016), studying a sample of university employees and students over the time course of two years, found that rumination mediated the relationship between higher levels of non-judging mindfulness and lower levels of depressive symptoms. Likewise,Jury and Jose (2019) found that rumination represented a longitudinal mediator between dispositional mindfulness and depressive 57 symptoms in a nonclinical sample of adults.…”

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