Gong Yanping, Tan Yuxuan, Huang Rong
School of Business, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Aug 12;13:935897. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.935897. eCollection 2022.
Hoarding behavior may not only interfere with hoarders' daily lives but may also endanger the community. However, few studies have investigated the role of personality characteristics in hoarding behavior. We hypothesized that dispositional mindfulness would be negatively associated with hoarding behavior, and tested mechanisms and gender differences in this association. An online survey was conducted in a sample of 533 Chinese adults (262 women, = 26.82; = 6.30). Regression-based analyses showed that mindfulness was associated with less hoarding behavior through higher self-esteem and lower emotion dysregulation. Moreover, gender moderated the mediating effect of emotion dysregulation in the association between mindfulness and hoarding behavior. Specifically, the indirect association was only significant for women. These findings provide a deeper understanding of how, why, and for whom dispositional mindfulness is negatively associated with hoarding behavior, they provide support for self-completion theory and the cognitive-behavioral model of hoarding, and they have heuristic value for future research.
囤积行为不仅可能干扰囤积者的日常生活，还可能危及社区。然而，很少有研究调查人格特征在囤积行为中的作用。我们假设特质正念与囤积行为呈负相关，并检验了这种关联中的机制和性别差异。对533名中国成年人（262名女性，年龄 = 26.82岁；标准差 = 6.30）进行了一项在线调查。基于回归的分析表明，正念通过更高的自尊和更低的情绪失调与更少的囤积行为相关。此外，性别调节了情绪失调在正念与囤积行为关联中的中介作用。具体而言，这种间接关联仅对女性显著。这些发现为特质正念如何、为何以及对谁与囤积行为呈负相关提供了更深入的理解，它们为自我完善理论和囤积的认知行为模型提供了支持，并且对未来研究具有启发价值。
