Introduction

Adolescents higher in the trait of dispositional mindfulness report fewer socioemotional problems. Focusing on the domain of peer stressors, we tested a model of adolescents’ mindfulness as a resource that undergirds more constructive stress coping responses, in turn resulting in fewer socioemotional problems.

Method

The participants were 361 Australian secondary school students (40% boys; ages 11 to 18; M = 14.9 years; SD = 1.4). Each completed a questionnaire to report four facets of dispositional mindfulness; engagement and disengagement coping and involuntary stress responses to recent peer interpersonal stressful events; and socioemotional problems of loneliness, social anxiety, and depression.

Results

Adolescents who reported more dispositional mindfulness, including facets of awareness, describing, non-judgement and non-reactivity, were lower in involuntary peer stress responses, disengagement coping, loneliness, social anxiety, and depression; associations of mindfulness facets with engagement coping were mixed. Mediational path models showed that almost all the significant negative associations of dispositional mindfulness with loneliness, social anxiety and depression were fully indirect via peer stress coping responses. Further, an alternative model, which tested whether loneliness, social anxiety and depression were the instigators of stress coping responses via mindfulness, had an adequate but poorer fit.

Conclusion

As hypothesized, the benefit of adolescents' dispositional mindfulness for reducing loneliness, social anxiety and depression seems to be indirect, with positive peer stress coping responses key mediators in these indirect pathways. It is less likely that the alternative occurs, whereby adolescents’ socioemotional problems are the foundation for mindfulness and peer stress coping responses.

中文翻译：

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同伴关系和压力：性格正念与抑郁、焦虑和孤独通过应对方式的间接关联

介绍

性格正念特征较高的青少年报告的社会情感问题较少。专注于同伴压力源领域，我们测试了青少年正念模型作为一种资源，它支持更具建设性的压力应对反应，从而减少社会情绪问题。

方法

参与者是 361 名澳大利亚中学生（40% 是男孩；11 至 18 岁；M  = 14.9 岁；SD  = 1.4）。每个人都完成了一份问卷，报告了性格正念的四个方面；参与和脱离应对和非自愿压力反应对最近的同伴人际压力事件；以及孤独、社交焦虑和抑郁等社会情感问题。

结果

报告更多性格正念的青少年，包括意识、描述、非判断和非反应等方面，在非自愿的同伴压力反应、脱离应对、孤独、社交焦虑和抑郁方面较低；正念方面与参与应对的关联是混合的。中介路径模型表明，性格正念与孤独、社交焦虑和抑郁的几乎所有显着负相关都是通过同伴压力应对反应完全间接的。此外，测试孤独、社交焦虑和抑郁是否是通过正念应对压力反应的煽动者的替代模型具有足够但更差的拟合度。

结论

正如假设的那样，青少年的性格正念对减少孤独感、社交焦虑和抑郁的好处似乎是间接的，积极的同伴压力应对反应是这些间接途径中的关键中介。替代方案发生的可能性较小，即青少年的社会情绪问题是正念和同伴压力应对反应的基础。