Mindfulness and emotion regulation difficulties in generalized anxiety disorder: Preliminary evidence for independent and overlapping contributions
The Behavior Therapist November 1, 2008 L. Roemer, Jonathan K. Lee, Kristalyn Salters-pedneault et al.
Diminished levels of mindfulness (awareness and acceptance/nonjudgment) and difficulties in emotion regulation have both been proposed to play a role in symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD); the current studies investigated these relationships in a nonclinical and a clinical sample. In the first study, among a sample of 395 individuals at an urban commuter campus, we found that self...