Meng Yao, Meng Gang
Department of Psychology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
School-Based Mental Health Center, Zibo Vocational Institute, Zibo, China.
Front Psychiatry. 2020 Apr 17;11:289. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00289. eCollection 2020.
Rumination, which is a coping style to distress, has become a common mode of thinking about mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety. Improving mindfulness is an effective way to help people cope with rumination. Individuals who had higher prosocial behaviors reported a high level of mindfulness. This study aimed to explore whether prosocial behavior helps individuals with high-level rumination improve their mindfulness, and explain the reason why prosocial behavior can influence the relationship between mindfulness and rumination.
Introducing prosocial behavior situations, the first study chose 51 high-level rumination and 53 low-level rumination participants and measured the influence of prosocial behavior on mindful attention awareness in the present moment. In the second study, a questionnaire was conducted among 261 participants to explore the moderating effect of prosocial behavior between rumination and mindfulness.
In individuals with high-level rumination, ΔMAAS (mindful attention awareness scale) (posttest-baseline) scores in the prosocial behavior condition were significantly higher compared to those in the control condition (p=0.003). Meanwhile, prosocial behavior played a moderating effect between reflective pondering of rumination and mindfulness (R 0.03, p=0.004).
Encouraging prosocial behavior is an effective way to improve mindfulness in highly ruminative individuals.
反刍是应对痛苦的一种应对方式，已成为思考抑郁症和焦虑症等精神疾病的常见思维模式。提高正念是帮助人们应对反刍的有效方法。亲社会行为水平较高的个体报告的正念水平也较高。本研究旨在探讨亲社会行为是否有助于高反刍水平的个体提高其正念，并解释亲社会行为能够影响正念与反刍之间关系的原因。
第一项研究引入亲社会行为情境，选取了51名高反刍水平参与者和53名低反刍水平参与者，测量亲社会行为对当下正念注意力觉知的影响。第二项研究对261名参与者进行问卷调查，以探讨亲社会行为在反刍与正念之间的调节作用。
在高反刍水平的个体中，亲社会行为条件下的ΔMAAS（正念注意力觉知量表）（后测-基线）得分显著高于对照条件下的得分（p = 0.003）。同时，亲社会行为在反刍的反思性思考与正念之间起调节作用（R = 0.03，p = 0.004）。
鼓励亲社会行为是提高高反刍个体正念的有效方法。
