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Emotion regulation and mindfulness in adolescents: Conceptual and empirical connection and associations with social anxiety symptoms 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Victoria K. Hambour,Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck,Sarah Clear,Susan Rowe,Elbina Avdagic
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Pergamon
  • 출판년도2018
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Personality and individual differences
  • 발행사항Vol.134No.-[2018]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN0191-8869
  • 소개/요약Dysregulation of emotions is a risk for social anxiety symptoms, whereas dispositional mindfulness has been proposed as assisting with emotion regulation. The aim of the current study was to examine the unique associations of dysregulation and mindfulness with adolescents' social anxiety, while focusing on the conceptual overlap and the empirical connection between dysregulation and mindfulness. Participants were 336 Australian adolescents (53% girls; 12–15 years) who completed questionnaires. Dysregulation and mindfulness were moderately correlated. Factor analysis revealed two factors accounting for 59% of the variance. The first factor, active dysregulation, had high positive loadings for five dysregulation and high negative loadings for two mindfulness subscales. The second factor, passive regulation, had a high negative loading for one dysregulation and high positive loadings for three mindfulness subscales. Both active and passive composite scores had unique associations with heightened anxiety symptoms. Regression analyses of the original subscales indicated that the dysregulation subscale limited strategies, and the mindfulness subscales observing and describing were uniquely associated with anxiety; strategies and observing were associated with more symptoms, whereas describing was associated with fewer. Interventions that address dysregulation and low capacity for mindfulness may be beneficial for adolescents with heightened social anxiety symptoms.