The Role of Attentional Control in the Relationship Between Mindfulness and Anxiety
| Autor: | Helen Z. MacDonald, Anna Olsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male 050103 clinical psychology Mindfulness Adolescent Universities 050109 social psychology Anxiety Self-Control Psychological health Young Adult medicine Humans Attention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Students General Psychology Depression (differential diagnoses) Depression 05 social sciences Attentional control Female medicine.symptom Psychology Stress Psychological Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychological Reports. 123:759-780 |
| ISSN: | 1558-691X 0033-2941 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0033294119835756 |
| Popis: | Mindfulness has been robustly associated with psychological health, predicting greater well-being, and lower levels of anxiety, depression, and stress across samples. Attentional control is the ability to voluntarily shift, focus, and train one’s attention and has also been linked with better psychological functioning. Less well-understood, however, are which domains of mindfulness may be associated with particular aspects of mental health, including anxiety, and whether attentional control may help to explain the relationship between specific facets of mindfulness and anxiety. This study examined self-reported shifting and focusing attentional control as mediators of the relationships between five domains of dispositional mindfulness (i.e., observing, describing, acting with awareness, nonjudging, and nonreacting) and symptoms of anxiety. Two hundred and eighty-six college students completed self-report questionnaires measuring dispositional mindfulness, attentional control, and symptoms of anxiety. Using mediation analyses, findings revealed an indirect effect of two facets of mindfulness on anxiety through focusing attentional control after controlling for shifting attentional control. These findings suggest that specific mindfulness skills are related to better attentional control skills, and that focusing attentional control may then protect against anxiety symptoms in college students. These results have critical implications for college students, who are experiencing anxiety and stress at increasing levels. |
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