Mindfulness and Coping with Dysphoric Mood: Contrasts with Rumination and Distraction |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Patricia?C?BroderickEmail author |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, Pennsylvania |
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Abstract: | Past research has shown that rumination exacerbates dysphoric mood whereas distraction attenuates it. This research examined
whether the practice of mindfulness meditation could reduce dysphoric mood even more effectively than distraction. A dysphoric
mood was induced in 139 female and 38 male participants who were then randomly assigned to a rumination, distraction, or meditation
condition. As predicted, participants instructed to meditate reported significantly lower levels of negative mood than those
in either of the two other conditions. Distraction was associated with a lessening of dysphoric mood when compared to rumination
but was not as effective as mindfulness meditation. The implications of these findings are discussed. |
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Keywords: | mindfulness rumination dysphoric mood distraction |
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