Mindfulness training promotes upward spirals of positive affect and cognition: Multilevel and autoregressive latent trajectory modeling analyses

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Garland, Eric L ^a,b   Geschwind, Nicole ^c   Peeters, Frenk ^c   Wichers, Marieke ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Broaden and build; Emotion regulation; Latent growth curve analysis; Mindfulness training; Positive emotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926472430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00015     Document Type: Article

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