ERIC Number: EJ1213882
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0744-8481
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Mindfulness Moderates the Relation between Trauma and Anxiety Symptoms in College Students
Tubbs, Justin D.; Savage, Jeanne E.; Adkins, Amy E.; Amstadter, Ananda B.; Dick, Danielle M.
Journal of American College Health, v67 n3 p235-245 2019
Objective: To explore the relations between trauma exposure and anxiety and depression among college students, and to determine whether trait mindfulness may moderate these relations. Participants: Self-report survey data from 2,336 college sophomores were drawn from a larger university-wide study ("Spit for Science"). Methods: We constructed multiple linear regression models using past-year trauma exposure, trait mindfulness, and their multiplicative interaction to predict current anxiety and depressive symptom severity, while controlling for covariates. Results: Mindfulness was associated with lower levels of depression and anxiety symptom severity. Trauma was a significant predictor of anxiety, but not depression, and high levels of mindfulness attenuated the association between trauma exposure and higher anxiety symptom severity. Conclusions: These results have implications for the treatment and prevention of anxiety among trauma-exposed college students and provide a basis for further research into the mechanisms through which mindfulness may facilitate positive mental health.
Descriptors: Metacognition, Trauma, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Undergraduate Students, Predictor Variables, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Correlation, Resilience (Psychology), Severity (of Disability)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) (NIH)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: UL1RR031990