Self-compassion, meaning in life, and experiential avoidance explain the relationship between meditation and positive mental health outcomes.
Journal of Clinical Psychology January 24, 2020 J. R. Yela, A. Crego, M. Gómez-Martínez et al.
OBJECTIVE Despite consistent evidence for the beneficial effects of meditation on mental health, little is known about the mechanisms that make mindfulness meditation effective. METHOD The levels of mental health, self-compassion, presence of meaning in life, and experiential avoidance of meditators (n = 414) and nonmeditators (n = 414) were measured and compared. Bootstrap-based structural...