TY - JOUR
T1 - Dispositional mindful awareness and savoring positive experiences
T2 - A prospective test of cognitive reappraisal as a mediator
AU - Cheung, Rebecca Y.M.
AU - Ng, Melody C.Y.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/9/1
Y1 - 2020/9/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Cognitive reappraisal
KW - Emerging adults
KW - Mindful awareness
KW - Savoring positive experiences
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85083093792&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110050
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110050
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85083093792
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 163
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
M1 - 110050
ER -