The Relationship between Mindfulness Level and Anxiety in College Students: The Mediating Roles of Rumination and Sleep

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jmpe.202618204

Author(s)

Xv Chu

Affiliation(s)

College of Health Sciences, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, China

Abstract

The present study has two overarching research aims: first, to systematically examine the connection between dispositional mindfulness and anxiety among undergraduate students; second, to empirically test the mediating roles of rumination and sleep quality within this specific bivariate association, the present study recruited 767 undergraduate students (337 males, 430 females). The MAAS, RRS-CV, was administered to all participants enrolled in the present investigation.(1) SAS and the PSQI were utilized for formal assessment in this study, and Hayes’PROCESS macro (Model 6 ) for SPSS was appropriately applied to carry out serial mediation analysis. First, it was clearly and reliably shown that dispositional trait mindfulness demonstrated a notable negative correlation with anxiety symptoms, ruminative thinking, and sleep quality(r=-.580,r=-.395,r=-.266,all p<.01 ). (2) there were clear, statistically significant correlations among rumination, sleep quality, and anxiety (r=.506,r=.388,r=.331, all p<.01 ). More importantly, rumination and sleep quality independently served as an intervening variable in the link between dispositional mindfulness and anxiety, with the two mediating effects accounting for 8. 4% and 1. 8% of the total effect respectively (all p<. 001). Furthermore, rumination and sleep quality showed a serial partial mediation pattern. The mediating effect of dispositional mindfulness on anxiety was clearly examined. More importantly, Findings from this research demonstrate that the interplay between dispositional mindfulness and anxiety among undergraduate students can be fully explained by two distinct mediating pathways: the individual intervening effects of rumination and sleep quality, alongside the serial mediating effect operating via the rumination-sleep quality pathway. Thus, dispositional mindfulness exhibits a significant inverse relationship with anxiety in undergraduate students, and both rumination and sleep quality serve as partial mediators in this link.

Keywords

Mindfulness Level; Anxiety; Sleep; Rumination

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