The Relationship Between Dispositional Mindfulness And Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder And The Mediating Role Of Emotion Regulation Difficulties: Based On MASEM

Many people will experience at least one traumatic event in their lives.If the trauma is too severe to bear and develop into post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD),PTSD will have a serious adverse impact on the individual’s life.When relieved in a timely manner,it may greatly improve the quality of life of individuals with PTSD.Trait mindfulness is a protective factor for many psychological problems.Many researchers have begun to pay attention to the relationship between trait mindfulness and post-traumatic stress disorder.For example,many researchers have found that there is a significant negative correlation between trait mindfulness and post-traumatic stress disorder.But some studies do not support this result.In addition,emotional regulation difficulties also play an important role in the relationship mechanism between them.The purpose of this study was to examine the extent of the relationship between trait mindfulness and PTSD,and whether the two are linked through emotion regulation difficulties.First,pairwise analyses were conducted on the three variables of trait mindfulness,post-traumatic stress disorder,and emotional regulation difficulty,and 65,50,and 60 valid data were collected,respectively.Then,based on the meta-analysis results,the three data sets were merged into a correlation matrix,and then through meta-analysis structural equation modeling,the influence mechanism between trait mindfulness and PTSD was obtained.The specific results were as follows:(1)There was a significant negative correlation between trait mindfulness and posttraumatic stress disorder.The results of meta-analysis do not have severe publication bias,and the results are heterogeneous,which is affected by the moderating variable,the country and region of the subjects,and the PTSD measurement tools.(2)Emotion regulation difficulty was significantly positively correlated with post-traumatic stress disorder.The meta-analysis results did not have severe publication bias,and the results were heterogeneous,which were affected by the measurement tools for emotion regulation difficulty and PTSD.(3)Trait mindfulness was significantly negatively correlated with emotion regulation difficulties.The metaanalysis results did not have severe publication bias,and the results were heterogeneous,which were affected by moderating variables such as trait mindfulness measurement tools and emotion regulation difficulty measurement tools.(4)Emotion regulation difficulty played a partial mediating role in the relationship between trait mindfulness and PTSD.