Upward Spirals of Mindfulness and Reappraisal: Testing the Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory with Autoregressive Latent Trajectory Modeling

Cognitive Therapy and Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 381-392

  Garland, Eric L ^a   Kiken, Laura G ^b   Faurot, Kim ^c   Palsson, Olafur ^c   Gaylord, Susan A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Mindfulness; Mindfulness to Meaning; Positive psychology; Reappraisal; Upward spiral

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY SAMPLE; EMOTIONALITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDITATION; MINDFULNESS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PSYCHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 85028268761     PISSN: 01475916     EISSN: 15732819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10608-016-9768-y     Document Type: Article

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