The moderating effect of mindfulness on self-defeatist beliefs and negative symptoms in a population of chronic schizophrenia patients in Taiwan

Autor: Chuan-Hsun Yu, Kun-Hua Lee
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Current Psychology.
ISSN: 1936-4733
1046-1310
Popis: This study investigated mindfulness in relation to self-defeatist beliefs and negative symptoms, with the hypothesis that mindfulness has a moderating effect. Three hundred and thirty-one patients with schizophrenia were recruited from a public mental health hospital. All were interviewed by experienced research assistants and completed self-report questionnaires after giving informed consent. Self-defeatist beliefs, negative symptoms, and mindfulness were measured, and descriptive analyses and hierarchical regression analysis were conducted. Our results demonstrated that self-defeatist beliefs were highly related to avolition, affective flattening, and apathy of negative symptoms related to diminished experience, while no significant relationships were found between self-defeatist beliefs, alogia, and attentional impairment. We also confirmed the effect of mindfulness on negative symptoms, but unexpectedly, the moderating effect of mindfulness could not be supported in the present study. Emotional regulation and dysfunctional beliefs could be important for the development of negative symptoms. The effect of social cognitive deficits on self-defeatist beliefs, mindfulness, and negative symptoms, as well as the differential effects of mindfulness-based interventions and cognitive behavioral therapy on negative symptoms, should be investigated further in the future.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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