The Moderating Role of Resilience on Mindfulness, Experiential Avoidance, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptoms of College Student Veterans: A Cross-Sectional Study.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Reyes, Andrew Thomas; Cross, Chad L.; Manzano, Ehdzky-Ray M.
- Source
- Issues in Mental Health Nursing. Aug2022, Vol. 43 Issue 8, p721-729. 9p.
- Subject
- *DIAGNOSIS of post-traumatic stress disorder
*TREATMENT of post-traumatic stress disorder
*MINDFULNESS
*COLLEGE students
*STATISTICAL power analysis
*STATISTICAL reliability
*ANALYSIS of variance
*CONFIDENCE intervals
*CROSS-sectional method
*COGNITION
*AVOIDANCE (Psychology)
*T-test (Statistics)
*CRONBACH'S alpha
*SEVERITY of illness index
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*STRESS management
*VETERANS
*STATISTICAL sampling
*DATA analysis software
*PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience
- Language
- ISSN
- 0161-2840
The purpose of the study was to investigate the moderating effect of resilience on the relationship between mindfulness, experiential avoidance, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity. A cross-sectional study design was used on a sample of 133 college student military veterans. We found a direct effect of mindfulness on PTSD and a significant mediating effect of experiential avoidance on the relationship between mindfulness and PTSD. Resilience also had a significant moderating effect on the relationship between mindfulness and PTSD. This study provides preliminary evidence on the usefulness of integrating resilience development in mindfulness-based interventions for trauma-related disorders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]