Mindfulness and negative emotions among Chinese college students: chain mediation effect of rumination and resilience.
Keke Shi, Guoyan Feng, Qiyong Huang, Meilin Ye, Hongbo Cui
Frontiers in psychology January 1, 2023 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1280663 via PubMed
Summary
AI-generated from the abstractAmong more than 3,000 Chinese college students, higher mindfulness was linked to fewer negative emotions, less rumination, and greater resilience. Rumination and resilience each partially explained how mindfulness relates to negative emotions, and they also worked together as a chain: mindfulness was associated with lower rumination and higher resilience, which in turn were associated with fewer negative emotions. The findings suggest that mindfulness may reduce negative emotions both directly and indirectly by decreasing rumination and strengthening resilience.
Study at a glance
| Characteristics | Cross-sectional survey with mediation analysis Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 3,038 |
| Population | Chinese college students |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Keywords | College students Negative emotions Resilience Rumination |
| Citations | 12 |
| Key finding | Mindfulness was negatively associated with negative emotions both directly and indirectly through the mediating roles of rumination and resilience. |
Abstract
This study examines the mediation effect of rumination and resilience between the relationship of mindfulness and negative emotions in Chinese college students. 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. ① Mindfulness was negatively associated with rumination and negative emotions (r = -0.69, -0.72; P < 0.01), and positively associated with resilience (r = 0.63, P < 0.01). Rumination was negatively associated with resilience (r = -0.59, P < 0.01), and positively associated with negative emotions (r = 0.83, P < 0.01). Resilience was negatively associated with negative emotions (r = -0.71, P < 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). Mindfulness not only influences negative emotions directly, but also through the mediating effect of rumination and resilience indirectly.