Mindfulness and Negative Emotions Among Chinese College Students: Chain Mediation Effect of Rumination and Resilience

Overview

Journal Front Psychol

Date 2024 Jan 9

PMID 38192386

Authors

Keke Shi

Guoyan Feng

Qiyong Huang

Meilin Ye

Hongbo Cui

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Abstract

Objective: This study examines the mediation effect of rumination and resilience between the relationship of mindfulness and negative emotions in Chinese college students.

Method: A total of 3,038 college students (19.94 ± 1.10) were investigated by Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MASS), Rumination Response Style Scale (RRS), Resilience Scale (RES) and Depression-anxiety-pressure scale (DASS-21), and the mediation analyses were conducted by adopting PROCESS macro in the SPSS software.

Results: ① Mindfulness was negatively associated with rumination and negative emotions ( = -0.69, -0.72; < 0.01), and positively associated with resilience ( = 0.63, < 0.01). Rumination was negatively associated with resilience ( = -0.59, < 0.01), and positively associated with negative emotions ( = 0.83, < 0.01). Resilience was negatively associated with negative emotions ( = -0.71, < 0.01). ② Mindfulness can not only directly predict negative emotions (95%CI, -0.12~-0.09) but also affects negative emotions through three indirect paths: Rumination was a mediator (95%CI, -0.24~-0.20), resilience was a mediator (95%CI, -0.07~-0.06), and resilience and rumination were a chain mediator (95%CI, -0.04 ~ -0.03).

Conclusion: Mindfulness not only influences negative emotions directly, bu also through the mediating effect of rumination and resilience indirectly.

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