TY - JOUR
T1 - Changes in Mind-Wandering and Cognitive Fusion Through Mindfulness Group Therapy for Depression and Anxiety
AU - Takahashi, Toru
AU - Kikai, Tomoki
AU - Sugiyama, Fukiko
AU - Kawashima, Issaku
AU - Kuroda, Ayaka
AU - Usui, Kaori
AU - Maeda, Wakana
AU - Uchida, Taro
AU - Guan, Siqing
AU - Oguchi, Mana
AU - Kumano, Hiroaki
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported in part by Ibuka funding, JSPS KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, 17J10680), and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).
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© 2020 Springer Publishing Company.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The mechanisms of efficacy in mindfulness-based interventions for depression and anxiety are not fully understood. To clarify these mechanisms, we tested the hypotheses that mindwandering, daydreaming, cognitive fusion, and experiential avoidance will decrease through mindfulness group therapy, and this decrease will correlate with improvements in depression and anxiety. Participants self-reported depression and/or anxiety (N = 28) took part in an 8-week mindfulness group therapy program. They were assessed using self-report scales at pre- and post-intervention, and at 2-month follow-up. Results indicated that depression and trait-anxiety decreased between pre- and post-intervention with moderate effect sizes, which were maintained at follow-up. Mind-wandering and cognitive fusion also decreased between pre- and post-intervention with small to moderate effect sizes, and maintained at follow-up. The decreases in mind-wandering and cognitive fusion moderately correlated with improvements in depression and anxiety, suggesting that decreases in mind-wandering and cognitive fusion might underlie efficacious mechanisms of mindfulness group therapy.
AB - The mechanisms of efficacy in mindfulness-based interventions for depression and anxiety are not fully understood. To clarify these mechanisms, we tested the hypotheses that mindwandering, daydreaming, cognitive fusion, and experiential avoidance will decrease through mindfulness group therapy, and this decrease will correlate with improvements in depression and anxiety. Participants self-reported depression and/or anxiety (N = 28) took part in an 8-week mindfulness group therapy program. They were assessed using self-report scales at pre- and post-intervention, and at 2-month follow-up. Results indicated that depression and trait-anxiety decreased between pre- and post-intervention with moderate effect sizes, which were maintained at follow-up. Mind-wandering and cognitive fusion also decreased between pre- and post-intervention with small to moderate effect sizes, and maintained at follow-up. The decreases in mind-wandering and cognitive fusion moderately correlated with improvements in depression and anxiety, suggesting that decreases in mind-wandering and cognitive fusion might underlie efficacious mechanisms of mindfulness group therapy.
KW - anxiety
KW - cognitive fusion
KW - depression
KW - experiential avoidance
KW - mind-wandering
KW - mindfulness
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U2 - 10.1891/JCPSY-D-19-00015
DO - 10.1891/JCPSY-D-19-00015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85103949572
SN - 0889-8391
VL - 34
SP - 162
EP - 176
JO - Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy
JF - Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy
IS - 2
ER -
