Jarukasemthawee Somboon, Pisitsungkagarn Kullaya, Leangsuksant Thanapol, González Natalia Lara
Faculty of Psychology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Int J Adolesc Med Health. 2018 Sep 8;32(6):/j/ijamh.ahead-of-print/ijamh-2018-0012/ijamh-2018-0012.xml. doi: 10.1515/ijamh-2018-0012.
Given the substantial evidence for the efficacy of secular mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) for reducing psychological distress and increasing wellbeing, research attention has more recently turned to investigating the mechanisms by which this is achieved and has revealed that MBI works not only directly on reducing distress, but also indirectly through a reduction in mediating problems such as rumination and emotional regulation difficulty. However, to the best of the authors' knowledge, no studies have yet been undertaken to evaluate the effect on such mediating conditions, of traditional Buddhist mindfulness meditation, as practiced in Eastern cultures and increasingly in the West, from which MBIs have been derived but remain distinctly different. The current study was therefore designed to examine the effect of traditional mindfulness on mediating conditions in participants who were born into and were experienced in this approach. Specifically, the study examines the relationship between traditional mindfulness and distress, and between traditional mindfulness and the mediating conditions of rumination and emotional regulation difficulty, in Thai adolescent students experienced in Buddhist meditation practices. The results resonate well with the findings from MBI studies, showing significant negative correlations between rumination and distress and emotional regulation difficulty and distress, and significant positive correlations between mindfulness and the mediators. The implications of the benefits of traditional mindfulness for reducing non-clinical distress, rumination and difficulties in emotion regulation are discussed.
鉴于有大量证据表明基于世俗正念的干预措施（MBIs）在减轻心理困扰和增进幸福感方面具有有效性，最近研究的关注点转向了探究其实现机制，并揭示出MBI不仅直接作用于减轻困扰，还通过减少诸如反刍和情绪调节困难等中介问题产生间接作用。然而，据作者所知，尚未有研究对源自东方文化且如今在西方也日益盛行的传统佛教正念冥想对这些中介状况的影响进行评估，MBIs虽源自传统佛教正念冥想，但二者仍有显著差异。因此，本研究旨在考察传统正念对那些生于此道且有相关经验的参与者中介状况的影响。具体而言，该研究考察了泰国青少年学生（他们有佛教冥想实践经验）中传统正念与困扰之间的关系，以及传统正念与反刍和情绪调节困难等中介状况之间的关系。研究结果与MBI研究的发现高度契合，表明反刍与困扰、情绪调节困难与困扰之间存在显著负相关，正念与中介变量之间存在显著正相关。本文还讨论了传统正念在减轻非临床困扰、反刍及情绪调节困难方面的益处。
