The Mechanism Of Adolescent Trait Mindfulness Affecting Depression

Due to immature psychological development,teenagers are easily affected by many internal and external factors,and are prone to mental health problems.Junior high school students have stage particularity in the growth process of adolescence.In the face of academic pressure and interpersonal problems,because of their mental immaturity,more likely to cause depression problems.Depression not only affects the physical health of adolescents,such as mild depression will have the risk of self-injury,self-harm,severe depression will even have the risk of suicide;But also affects the psychological function of teenagers,such as attention,memory decline and so on.At present,the problem of adolescent depression has become one of the key issues widely concerned by the society.The research on the influencing factors and formation mechanism of adolescent depression has important theoretical and practical significance for the prevention and treatment and reduction of depression.In recent years,mindfulness,which is consistent with traditional Chinese culture and emphasizes the cultivation of one’s body and mind,has become one of the research hotspots.Moreover,mindfulness intervention training can significantly reduce individual depression.Trait mindfulness is a positive trait similar to merit.Therefore,this study explores the influence mechanism of trait mindfulness on adolescent depression from the perspective of positive psychology.This study takes junior high school students as the research object,takes depression as the dependent variable,trait mindfulness as the independent variable,and introduces perceptive social support and cognitive reappraisal as the mediating variables to establish a chain mediation model.The method of combining horizontal research with longitudinal research is adopted,that is,questionnaires are issued to the same group of research objects for several times.The Mindful Attention and Awareness Scale,the Perceptive Social Support Scale,the Chinese version of the Emotion Regulation Scale and the Depression Scale used by the flow Center were used to explore the mechanism of action between these variables.The results showed that:(1)there was a significant correlation between trait mindfulness,perceptive social support,cognitive reappraisal and depression.(2)Perceived social support and cognitive reappraisal play separate mediating roles between trait mindfulness and depression,and they play chain mediating roles between trait mindfulness and depression.(3)After controlling for pretest trait mindfulness,pretest depression significantly predicted posttest trait mindfulness.(4)After controlling for pretest cognitive reappraisal,pretest perceived social support significantly predicted posttest cognitive reappraisal.Conclusion:(1)Trait mindfulness can influence depression directly,or it can influence depression through the understanding of the mediating effects of social support,cognitive reappraisal and their chain mediating effects respectively.(2)Depression predicted trait mindfulness,and perceived social support predicted cognitive reappraisal.Through the research on the influencing factors of depression,this study can deepen our understanding of the formation mechanism of depression and promote the prevention and intervention of adolescent depression.