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标题：A mediation model of mindfulness and decentering: sequential psychological constructs or one and the same?
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作者：Judith Gecht ; Ramona Kessel ; Thomas Forkmann 等
期刊名称：BMC Psychology
印刷版ISSN：2050-7283
出版年度：2014
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：18
DOI：10.1186/2050-7283-2-18
语种：English
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：Mindfulness and decentering are closely related processes both assumed to promote well-being. While some researchers claim that mindfulness and decentering can be clearly differentiated others suggest to use these concepts interchangeably. The precise relation between mindfulness and decentering remains unclear and therefore the present study aims to determine the relation between mindfulness and decentering. In a structural equation modeling framework, a mediation model was tested among a sample group of 495 university students (average age 20.8 years, 30.3% female). The identified model shows an acceptable fit to the data and illustrates the role of decentering as a mediator of the relationship between mindfulness and depressive symptoms by complementary mediation and indirect-only mediation. The present results cannot sustain previous research, which converted mindfulness and decentering into one single variable. Rather the data suggests to treat mindfulness and decentering as two separable concepts and to regard decentering as an important working mechanism of mindfulness.
关键词：Mindfulness ; Decentering ; Mechanism of change ; Multiple mediation modeling ; Structural equation modeling