Free Your Mind and Mental Health and Wellbeing Will Follow: Evidence from Across-Day Within-Person Mediation in an Eight-Week Mindfulness RCT
Mindfulness March 26, 2026 Paul Verhaeghen, Shelley N. Aikman, Nilam Ram
Abstract Objectives The study aimed to identify the within-person mediating mechanisms linking state mindfulness to mental health, wellbeing, and compassion. Method Participants (133 college students going through an eight-week mindfulness intervention, and 131 waitlist controls) provided daily measures of predictors (facets of mindfulness), mediators (rumination, cognitive interference,...
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-026-02820-y (opens in new tab)
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Mental health
Rumination
Moderation
Moderated mediation
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