Relationships Between Mindfulness Facets and Mental and Physical Health in Meditating and Nonmeditating University Students
Background: Little is known about the relations of the mindfulness facets to mental and physical health among meditators and nonmeditators. Aim: The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between the mindfulness facets and mental as well as physical health of universit...
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Veröffentlicht in: | European journal of health psychology 2021-10, Vol.28 (4), p.183-192 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Background: Little is known about the relations of the
mindfulness facets to mental and physical health among meditators and
nonmeditators. Aim: The main purpose of the present study was
to investigate the relationship between the mindfulness facets and mental as
well as physical health of university students with and without meditation
experience using attentional control, body awareness, nonattachment, and emotion
regulation as mediators. Method: Data were collected from a
sample of 508 university students (meditators:
n = 195, nonmeditators
n = 313). Path analysis models were used to
examine the associations between the mindfulness facets, all candidate mediators
and the outcome variables mental and physical health complaints. Additionally, a
bootstrapping procedure was used to test the significance of the indirect
effects. Results: Results showed that the associations between
the mindfulness facets, the proposed mediators, and mental and physical health
complaints were similar between students with and without meditation experience.
Nonattachment and body awareness were the most important mediators.
Limitations: Only self-report questionnaires were used in
the study, and the majority of the sample was women and enrolled in health and
social science studies. Conclusion: The results indicated that
the investigation of mindfulness at the facet level is worthwhile. The study
helps to clarify the associations between the mindfulness facets and mental as
well as physical health among students with and without meditation experience.
Further, mindfulness mediators should be examined in intervention studies. |
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ISSN: | 2512-8442 2512-8450 |
DOI: | 10.1027/2512-8442/a000085 |