Emotion regulation accounts for associations between mindfulness and depression across and within diagnostic categories.
Journal
Annals of clinical psychiatry : official journal of the American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists
ISSN: 1547-3325
Titre abrégé: Ann Clin Psychiatry
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8911021
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 2020
05 2020
Historique:
entrez:
12
5
2020
pubmed:
12
5
2020
medline:
22
6
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Previous research shows that mindfulness and emotion regulation (ER) are highly related to each other. Preliminary evidence in small clinical populations show that ER may partially account for the relationship between mindfulness and depressive symptoms. The present study aimed to investigate which diagnostic categories were associated with depressive symptoms after controlling for ER in a heterogeneous sample of treatment-seeking patients. A large sample of psychiatric outpatients (N = 911) completed the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID), Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), and Clinically Useful Depression Outcome Scale (CUDOS). Partial correlations were conducted to evaluate to what degree the relationship between depression scores and facets of mindfulness were accounted for by ER scores. When controlling for baseline mindfulness, the relationship between emotion dysregulation and depression symptoms remained significant for all data points; however, when controlling for baseline emotion dysregulation, the association between mindfulness and depression was not significant in the majority of cases. Nonjudging was most resistant to this result. Although mindfulness is negatively associated with depressive symptoms, this association may be better accounted for by emotion dysregulation.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
Previous research shows that mindfulness and emotion regulation (ER) are highly related to each other. Preliminary evidence in small clinical populations show that ER may partially account for the relationship between mindfulness and depressive symptoms. The present study aimed to investigate which diagnostic categories were associated with depressive symptoms after controlling for ER in a heterogeneous sample of treatment-seeking patients.
METHODS
A large sample of psychiatric outpatients (N = 911) completed the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID), Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), and Clinically Useful Depression Outcome Scale (CUDOS). Partial correlations were conducted to evaluate to what degree the relationship between depression scores and facets of mindfulness were accounted for by ER scores.
RESULTS
When controlling for baseline mindfulness, the relationship between emotion dysregulation and depression symptoms remained significant for all data points; however, when controlling for baseline emotion dysregulation, the association between mindfulness and depression was not significant in the majority of cases. Nonjudging was most resistant to this result.
CONCLUSIONS
Although mindfulness is negatively associated with depressive symptoms, this association may be better accounted for by emotion dysregulation.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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