Cognitive-Affective Factors Affecting Mental Health in Young Adults: A Structural Equation Modelling Examination of Mindfulness Facets, Metacognition, Resilience, and Creativity
PsyArXiv December 9, 2025 Rose Seneviratne, Matt Garner, Emma Claire Palmer-Cooper preprint
Objectives: To examine how mindfulness, metacognition, resilience, and creativity influence psychological distress in young adults and test two alternative pathway models. Methods: Cross-sectional structural equation modelling (SEM) tested two models in N = 841 non-clinical young adults aged 18 to 30. Psychological distress was operationalised as a latent factor using anxiety (GAD-7),...