Mindfulness and Affect During Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Recurrent Depression: an Autoregressive Latent Trajectory Analysis
Mindfulness October 1, 2020 Marleen J. Ter Avest, Corina U. Greven, Marloes J. Huijbers et al.
During mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for recurrent depression, larger increases in mindfulness were associated with larger increases in positive affect, while higher general levels of negative affect were linked to smaller increases in mindfulness over time. Week-to-week effects showed no reciprocal cross-lagged effects between mindfulness and positive or negative affect, except that positive affect at session 2 was positively associated with mindfulness at session 3. The study used data from 235 patients with recurrent depression in remission or partial remission, measuring mindfulness, positive affect, and negative affect before each MBCT session.