Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation Difficulties in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Preliminary Evidence for Independent and Overlapping Contributions

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• 作者：Lizabeth Roemer ; Jonathan K. Lee ; Kristalyn Salters-Pedneault ; Shannon M. Erisman ; Susan M. Orsillo ; Douglas S. Mennin
• 刊名：Behavior Therapy
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：June 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：40
• 期：2
• 页码：142-154
• 全文大小：243 K

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Diminished levels of mindfulness (awareness and acceptance/nonjudgment) and difficulties in emotion regulation have both been proposed to play a role in symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD); the current studies investigated these relationships in nonclinical and clinical samples. In the first study, among a sample of 395 individuals at an urban commuter campus, self-reports of both emotion regulation difficulties and aspects of mindfulness accounted for unique variance in GAD symptom severity, above and beyond variance shared with depressive and anxious symptoms, as well as variance shared with one another. In the second study, individuals with GAD (n = 16) reported significantly lower levels of mindfulness and significantly higher levels of difficulties in emotion regulation than individuals in a nonanxious control group (n = 16). Results are discussed in terms of directions for future research and potential implications for treatment development.