a Department of Psychology , Virginia Commonwealth University , Richmond , Virginia , USA.
b Department of Biology , Virginia Commonwealth University , Richmond , Virginia , USA.
J Am Coll Health. 2019 Apr;67(3):235-245. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2018.1477782. Epub 2018 Sep 13.
To explore the relations between trauma exposure and anxiety and depression among college students, and to determine whether trait mindfulness may moderate these relations.
Self-report survey data from 2,336 college sophomores were drawn from a larger university-wide study ("Spit for Science").
We constructed multiple linear regression models using past-year trauma exposure, trait mindfulness, and their multiplicative interaction to predict current anxiety and depressive symptom severity, while controlling for covariates.
Mindfulness was associated with lower levels of depression and anxiety symptom severity. Trauma was a significant predictor of anxiety, but not depression, and high levels of mindfulness attenuated the association between trauma exposure and higher anxiety symptom severity.
These results have implications for the treatment and prevention of anxiety among trauma-exposed college students and provide a basis for further research into the mechanisms through which mindfulness may facilitate positive mental health.
探讨大学生创伤暴露与焦虑抑郁的关系,并确定特质正念是否能调节这些关系。
来自更大范围大学范围内研究(“Spit for Science”)的 2336 名大二学生的自我报告调查数据被抽取出来。
我们构建了多个线性回归模型,使用过去一年的创伤暴露、特质正念及其乘积交互作用来预测当前的焦虑和抑郁症状严重程度,同时控制协变量。
正念与较低的抑郁和焦虑症状严重程度相关。创伤是焦虑的一个显著预测因子,但不是抑郁,高水平的正念减轻了创伤暴露与更高的焦虑症状严重程度之间的关联。
这些结果对治疗和预防创伤后大学生的焦虑有影响,并为进一步研究正念如何促进心理健康提供了基础。