Mindfulness Moderates the Relation between Trauma and Anxiety Symptoms in College Students

Autor/inn/en	Tubbs, Justin D.; Savage, Jeanne E.; Adkins, Amy E.; Amstadter, Ananda B.; Dick, Danielle M.
Titel	Mindfulness Moderates the Relation between Trauma and Anxiety Symptoms in College Students
Quelle	In: Journal of American College Health, 67 (2019) 3, S.235-245 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Tubbs, Justin D.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0744-8481
DOI	10.1080/07448481.2018.1477782
Schlagwörter	Metacognition; Trauma; Anxiety; Depression (Psychology); Undergraduate Students; Predictor Variables; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Correlation; Resilience (Psychology); Severity (of Disability) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Angst; Prädiktor; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Korrelation; Schweregrad
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01