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Emotion regulation mediates relationships between mindfulness facets and aggression dimensions 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Garofalo, Carlo,Gillespie, Steven M.,Velotti, Patrizia
  • 학회/출판사/기관명John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
  • 출판년도2020
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Aggressive behavior
  • 발행사항Vol.46No.1[2020]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN0096-140X
  • 소개/요약Aggression is a natural disposition of the human species (McCall & Shields, 2008) that, at its most extreme, poses a huge burden on society (Waters et al., 2004). Recent years have witnessed an increase in research on socio‐affective factors and processes that can help to explain individual differences in aggressive tendencies, and that can in turn represent useful targets for prevention and treatment efforts in community, mental health, forensic, and correctional settings (e.g., Gillespie, Mitchell, Fisher, & Beech, 2012). Among these factors, accumulating evidence suggests that mindfulness and emotion regulation are crucial for reducing aggression, as well as for taming and channeling natural aggressive dispositions toward adaptive purposes (e.g., self‐preservation and protesting against injustice; Fonagy, 2003). In contrast, impairments in mindfulness and emotion regulation (i.e., emotion dysregulation) have shown robust associations with different forms of aggression, spanning across anger, hostility, physical aggression, and violent behavior (Garofalo, Holden, Zeigler‐Hill, & Velotti, 2016; Garofalo, Velotti, & Zavattini, 2018; Roberton, Daffern, & Bucks, 2014; Scott, DiLillo, Maldonado, & Watkins, 2015; Velotti et al., 2016). As a result, treatments aimed at improving mindfulness and emotion regulation have been proposed and applied in offender populations (Garofalo et al., 2018; Gillespie & Beech, 2018; Gillespie et al., 2012; Roberton, Daffern, & Bucks, 2015), with some promising results (Shonin, Van Gordon, Slade, & Griffiths, 2013).