Bolzenkötter Teresa, Neubauer Andreas B, Koval Peter
Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Affect Sci. 2025 Jan 24;6(2):259-271. doi: 10.1007/s42761-024-00291-9. eCollection 2025 Jun.
Rumination and negative affect are mutually reinforcing experiences. Their dynamic relation can confer vulnerability to psychopathology. Cultivating mindfulness has been proposed to buffer against such downward spirals of negativity. However, it remains unclear whether practicing mindfulness in daily life causally impacts rumination, negative affect, and their dynamics. We investigated this using a micro-randomized intensive longitudinal trial. Participants ( = 91) were prompted eight times per day for 10 days using a smartphone app. At each prompt, participants were randomized to complete a brief mindfulness intervention or an active-control task and then reported levels of rumination and negative affect. Results of dynamic structural equation models showed that the mindfulness intervention led to lower levels of rumination and negative affect but that it had no reliable impact on their dynamics. Thus, cultivating mindfulness in daily life may be a promising approach for decreasing rumination and negative affect but not their dynamical relation.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-024-00291-9.
反刍思维和消极情绪是相互强化的体验。它们的动态关系会使人易患精神病理学疾病。有人提出培养正念可以缓冲这种消极情绪的恶性循环。然而，在日常生活中练习正念是否会对反刍思维、消极情绪及其动态关系产生因果影响仍不清楚。我们使用微观随机强化纵向试验对此进行了研究。参与者（n = 91）在10天内每天通过智能手机应用程序被提示8次。每次提示时，参与者被随机分配完成简短的正念干预或积极对照任务，然后报告反刍思维和消极情绪的水平。动态结构方程模型的结果表明，正念干预导致反刍思维和消极情绪水平降低，但对它们的动态关系没有可靠影响。因此，在日常生活中培养正念可能是减少反刍思维和消极情绪的一种有前景的方法，但不是减少它们的动态关系。
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