Action crises describe the intra-psychic conflicts people face when deliberating whether to continue pursuing or to give up a goal for which difficulties keep accumulating. Action crises lead to negative consequences such as elevated distress and depression. Less is known about their predictors. We propose mindfulness as a negative predictor of action crises because mindful people should set more autonomous goals and better regulate their emotions. Three prospective studies examined the relation between mindfulness and action crises and explored goal motivation and emotion regulation as mediators (Study 1, N = 137 students, mean age 22; Study 2, N = 79 students, mean age 24.27; Study 3, N = 236 workers, mean age 40.71). Results showed that mindfulness predicts action crises over time and that this relation is mediated by goal motivation and emotion regulation. We discuss how mindfulness can affect action crises in the phases of the Rubicon Model of goal pursuit.

行动危机描述了人们在考虑是继续追求还是放弃困难不断积累的目标时所面临的心理冲突。行动危机会导致负面后果，例如增加痛苦和抑郁。人们对他们的预测因子知之甚少。我们建议正念作为行动危机的负面预测因素，因为正念的人应该设定更多的自主目标并更好地调节他们的情绪。三项前瞻性研究考察了正念和行动危机之间的关系，并探讨了目标动机和情绪调节作为中介（研究 1，N = 137 名学生，平均年龄 22 岁；研究 2，N = 79 名学生，平均年龄 24.27 岁；研究 3，N= 236 名工人，平均年龄 40.71）。结果表明，正念随着时间的推移预测行动危机，并且这种关系由目标动机和情绪调节调节。我们讨论了正念如何影响目标追求的卢比孔模型阶段的行动危机。