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Psychological Mechanisms of Mindfulness-Based Interventions: What Do We Know?
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Little is known about the psychological mechanisms underlying the clinical benefits of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs). In the present review, we suggest that mindfulness-based interventions may enhance positive emotional regulation strategies, as well as self-compassion levels, and decrease rumination and experiential avoidance. These changes are, in turn, associated with several clinical benefits including the reduction of stress and depression levels, as well as the enhancement of positive emotions. Limitations and potential applications of these findings are discussed.
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“Across studies of mindfulness meditation, there is preliminary evidence for improvement in cognitive distortions (Sears & Kraus, 2009), and increases in mindfulness and emotion regulation, as well as decreases in avoidance of emotional experience (Chiesa, Anselmi, & Serretti, 2014).”
From Group CBT versus MBSR for social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial. (2016) · cites this paper as Chiesa, Anselmi, & Serretti, 2014
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“Moreover, mindfulness interventions have been recognised as playing a significant role in reducing rumination and experiential avoidance, subsequently resulting in decreased depressive symptoms (Chiesa et al., 2014).”
From A Mindfulness-Based Intervention: Differential Effects on Affective and Processual Evolution (2018) · cites this paper as Chiesa et al., 2014
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“The findings in this study included a reduction in experiential avoidance, which is consistent with the findings reported by Chiesa et al. (2014) but contradicts Hazlett-Stevens andOren's (2017) bibliotherapy mindfulness-based intervention outcomes.”
From A Mindfulness-Based Intervention: Differential Effects on Affective and Processual Evolution (2018) · cites this paper as Chiesa et al., 2014
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“Conceptual models of psychopathology and prominent perspectives on MBIs have consistently proposed certain key underlying psychological processes, such as emotion regulation and mindfulness skills [5,24,42,43,44,45,48,50,63,64,65,66].”
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“They suggested that these changes are associated with several clinical benefits, including the reduction of stress and depression levels, as well as the enhancement of positive emotions.”
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“In a recent review Chiesa and Serretti [19] suggested that mindfulness-based interventions may enhance positive emotion regulation strategies, as well as self-compassion levels, and decrease rumination and experiential avoidance.”
From The efficacy of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy as a public mental health intervention for adults with mild to moderate depressive symptomatology: A randomized controlled trial (2014) · cites this paper as Chiesa and Serretti [19]
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“To date, neither process has been studied in the growing literature on psychological mechanisms of MBIs (see Chiesa, Anselmi, & Serretti, 2014; Gu, Strauss, Bond, & Cavanagh, 2015)”
From Dispositional Mindfulness Uncouples Physiological and Emotional Reactivity to a Laboratory Stressor and Emotional Reactivity to Executive Functioning Lapses in Daily Life (2016) · cites this paper as Chiesa, Anselmi, & Serretti, 2014
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Metadata
- Authors
- Chiesa, A., Anselmi, R., & Serretti, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Messina (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Chiesa, Alberto
- Venue
- Holistic Nursing Practice
- Published
- 2014-03
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 124-148
- ISSN
- 0887-9311 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1988235217
- Cited by
- 125
- References
- 125
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 2.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Holistic Nursing Practice (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- mindfulness-based interventions, psychological mechanisms, self-compassion, rumination, experiential avoidance, stress reduction, depression, positive emotions
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Complementary Therapies, Cognition, Emotions, Humans, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Self Concept, Treatment Outcome, Mindfulness
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