RT journal article
T1 Cognitive Fusion Mediates the Relationship between Dispositional Mindfulness and Negative Affects: A Study in a Sample of Spanish Children and Adolescent School Students
A1 García-Gómez, María
A1 Guerra, Joan
A1 López-Ramos, Víctor M.
A1 Mestre Navas, José Miguel
A2 Psicología
K1 dispositional mindfulness
K1 cognitive defusion
K1 anxiety
K1 mindfulness based on interventions
K1 mental health
K1 experiential avoidance
K1 children and adolescents
AB Nowadays, mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) have experienced a remarkabledevelopment of studies among childhood and adolescent interventions. For this reason, dispositionalmindfulness (DM) measures for children and adolescents have been developed to determine thee ectiveness of MBI at this age stage. However, little is known about how key elements ofDM (for example, cognitive de/fusion or experiential avoidance that both confirm psychologicalinflexibility) are involved in the mechanisms of the children and adolescents’ mental health outcomes.This research examined the mediating e ect of cognitive fusion between DM and anxiety and othernegative emotional states in a sample of 318 Spanish primary-school students (aged between 8 and 16years, M = 11.24, SD = 2.19, 50.8% males). Participants completed the AFQ-Y (Avoidance and FusionQuestionnaire for youth), which is a measure of psychological inflexibility that encompasses cognitivedefusion and experiential avoidance; CAMM (DM for children and adolescents), PANAS-N (positiveand negative a ect measure for children, Spanish version of PANASC), and STAIC (an anxietymeasure for children). The study accomplished ethical standards. As MBI relevant literature hassuggested, cognitive defusion was a significant mediator betweenDMand symptoms of both negativeemotions and anxiety in children and adolescents. However, experiential avoidance did not showany significant mediating relationship. Probably, an improvement of the assessment of experientialavoidance is needed. MBI programs for children and adolescents may include more activities forreducing e ects of the cognitive defusion on their emotional distress.
PB MDPI
SN 1661-7827
YR 2019
FD 2019-12
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/22346
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/22346
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 21-sep-2026