The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey, USA.
Aggress Behav. 2010 Jan-Feb;36(1):28-44. doi: 10.1002/ab.20327.
Research suggests that rumination increases anger and aggression. Mindfulness, or present-focused and intentional awareness, may counteract rumination. Using structural equation modeling, we examined the relations between mindfulness, rumination, and aggression. In a pair of studies, we found a pattern of correlations consistent with rumination partially mediating a causal link between mindfulness and hostility, anger, and verbal aggression. The pattern was not consistent with rumination mediating the association between mindfulness and physical aggression. Although it is impossible with the current nonexperimental data to test causal mediation, these correlations support the idea that mindfulness could reduce rumination, which in turn could reduce aggression. These results suggest that longitudinal work and experimental manipulations mindfulness would be worthwhile approaches for further study of rumination and aggression. We discuss possible implications of these results.
研究表明，反刍会增加愤怒和攻击性。正念，或专注于当下和有意的意识，可能会抵消反刍。我们使用结构方程模型研究了正念、反刍和攻击性之间的关系。在两项研究中，我们发现了一种与反刍部分中介正念与敌意、愤怒和言语攻击之间因果关系一致的相关模式。这种模式与反刍中介正念与身体攻击之间的关联不一致。虽然目前的非实验数据不可能检验因果中介，但这些相关性支持了这样一种观点，即正念可以减少反刍，从而减少攻击性。这些结果表明，纵向工作和实验操纵正念将是进一步研究反刍和攻击性的有价值的方法。我们讨论了这些结果的可能影响。
