| Abstract [eng] |
Many researchers find that applied emotion regulation strategies and dispositional mindfulness skills are associated with an increased level of a person’s psychological well-being. However, it is not clear exactly how meditation, which improves dispositional mindfulness skills, affects emotional regulation, making a person more satisfied with life. The study aims to analyze the direct and indirect links between meditation, dispositional mindfulness, emotion regulation, and psychological well-being, taking into account sociodemographic characteristics. The study included 59 regular meditators (M = 35.61, SD = 9.99), 46 irregular meditators (M = 31.00, SD = 9.92) and 91 non-meditators (M = 32.67, SD = 11.49). Respondents completed the Lithuanian Psychological Well - Being Scale for Adults, the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, and the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale. Research strategy - cross-sectional correlation study. It has been found that regular meditators, in comparison with non-meditators, have a higher level of dispositional mindfulness, greater psychological well-being, more often use refocus on planning, acceptance, and positive reappraisal emotion regulation strategies, and less often use emotion suppression, other-blame, and catastrophizing emotion regulation strategies. More frequent application of adaptive emotion regulation strategies, less frequent application of non-adaptive emotion regulation strategies directed both to oneself or others and to the environment explained the higher level of psychological well-being. Both the higher abilities of dispositional mindfulness and the practice of meditation, directly and indirectly, through the less frequent application of non-adaptive strategies directed at others and the environment, explained a person’s higher psychological well-being. |
