1. Mindfulness facets and Big Five personality facets in persons with recurrent depression in remission
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Philip Spinhoven, Anne E. M. Speckens, Johan Ormel, Marloes J. Huijbers, and Yixia Zheng
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Mindfulness ,Big Five personality traits ,Remission ,media_common.quotation_subject ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Protective factor ,Stress-related disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 13] ,QUESTIONNAIRE ,050109 social psychology ,050105 experimental psychology ,All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center ,NEUROTICISM ,medicine ,Openness to experience ,Personality ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,SUBSTANCE USE ,General Psychology ,METAANALYSIS ,media_common ,DISPOSITIONAL MINDFULNESS ,05 social sciences ,COGNITIVE THERAPY ,Recurrent depression ,Neuroticism ,PREVENTION ,PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES ,Facet (psychology) ,Cognitive therapy ,ANTIDEPRESSANT MEDICATION ,Psychology ,TRAITS ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Studies examining mindfulness in relation to personality traits have been mainly conducted in non-clinical samples and resulted in mixed findings. The present cross-sectional study examined which mindfulness facets are most strongly associated with Big Five personality domains and facets implicated in the onset and possible relapse/recurrence of recurrent depression. Using data from the MOMENT study, we included 278 adult persons with recurrent depression in remission (SCID-I), who had completed baseline measurements of mindfulness (FFMQ) and personality (NEO PI-R). Using exploratory factor analysis, we observed that the mindfulness facets of acting with awareness, non-judging and non-reactivity loaded positively and the neuroticism facets loaded negatively on the first factor (called self-regulation) and that the mindfulness facets of observing and describing and the openness to experience facets loaded positively on the second factor (called self-awareness) of the identified five-factor solution. Lower-level facet analyses taking the multidimensional nature of mindfulness and personality traits into account clearly show that mindful self-regulation skills are associated with neuroticism, which is a known risk factor for relapse/recurrence of depression in persons with recurrent depression. Future longitudinal studies are needed to assess whether these mindful self-regulation skills may constitute a protective factor in the relationship of neuroticism with depression. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- 2017