Dispositional mindful awareness and savoring positive experiences: a prospective test of cognitive reappraisal as a mediator

Cheung, R. Y. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0998-7991 and Ng, M. C. Y. (2020) Dispositional mindful awareness and savoring positive experiences: a prospective test of cognitive reappraisal as a mediator. Personality and Individual Differences, 163. 110050. ISSN 0191-8869 doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110050

Abstract/Summary

Grounded in mindfulness-to-meaning theory and broaden-and-build theory, the present study tested the longitudinal relations between mindful awareness, cognitive reappraisal, and savoring positive experiences among Chinese emerging adults in Hong Kong. A total of 194 emerging adults at 18–27 years of age completed a set of questionnaires for three times, with a 3-month lag between time points. Findings based on structural equation modeling indicated that the association between mindful awareness and savoring positive experiences was mediated by cognitive reappraisal, over and above the effects of sex, age, and autoregressive control variables. These findings provided evidence for short-term longitudinal relations between these variables in the Chinese context. In order to foster the savoring of positive experiences, researchers and practitioners should be made aware of the possible chain of mechanisms associated with mindful awareness.

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Divisions	No Reading authors. Back catalogue items Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Psychology
Publisher	Elsevier
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