The healthy quality of mindful breathing: associations with rumination and depression

Burg, Jan M.; Michalak, Johannes

doi:10.1007/s10608-010-9343-x

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The healthy quality of mindful breathing: associations with rumination and depression

Burg, Jan M., Michalak, Johannes·2011·Cognitive Therapy and Research

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The mindful breathing task is positively associated with mindfulness and negatively associated with measures of rumination, repetitive thinking, fear of bodily sensations and depression.
“This task is positively associated with mindfulness and negatively associated with measures of rumination, repetitive thinking, fear of bodily sensations and depression [44].”
From A randomized controlled trial of yoga vs nonaerobic exercise for veterans with PTSD: Understanding efficacy, mechanisms of change, and mode of delivery (2021) · cites this paper as [44]
Mindfulness exerts beneficial effects on psychological health in various contexts and for different disorders, for example, by improving emotion regulation and decreasing tendencies of rumination.
“More generally, it is known that mindfulness exerts beneficial effects on psychological health in various contexts and for different disorders [31], for example, by improving emotion regulation [32] and decreasing tendencies of rumination [33], [34], which play an important role in most psychopathologies [35], [36].”
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Authors: Burg, J. M., & Michalak, J.
Affiliations: Ruhr University Bochum (DE)
Corresponding author: Burg, Jan M.
ORCID: Michalak, Johannes
Venue: Cognitive Therapy and Research
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2010-12-04
Volume: 35
Issue: 2
Pages: 179-185
ISSN: 0147-5916 (ISSN-L)
1573-2819
DOI: 10.1007/s10608-010-9343-x
OpenAlex: W2078614262
Cited by: 126
References: 29
Citations by year: 2026: 6 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 5
FWCI: 4.22
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Cognitive Therapy and Research (publishedVersion)
Funders: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Mind wandering and attention
Keywords: mindfulness, mindful breathing, rumination, repetitive negative thinking, depressive symptoms, mind wandering, mindfulness assessment, construct validity, mindfulness-based interventions

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