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Psychol."],"abstract":"<jats:sec><jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study examines the mediation effect of rumination and resilience between the relationship of mindfulness and negative emotions in Chinese college students.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Method<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 3,038 college students (19.94\u2009\u00b1\u20091.10) were investigated by Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MASS), Rumination Response Style Scale (RRS), Resilience Scale (RES) and Depression-anxiety-pressure scale (DASS-21), and the mediation analyses were conducted by adopting PROCESS macro in the SPSS software.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2460 Mindfulness was negatively associated with rumination and negative emotions (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009\u22120.69, \u22120.72; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.01), and positively associated with resilience (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.63, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.01). Rumination was negatively associated with resilience (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009\u22120.59, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.01), and positively associated with negative emotions (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.83, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.01). Resilience was negatively associated with negative emotions (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009\u22120.71, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.01). \u2461 Mindfulness can not only directly predict negative emotions (95%CI, \u22120.12~\u22120.09) but also affects negative emotions through three indirect paths: Rumination was a mediator (95%CI, \u22120.24~\u22120.20), resilience was a mediator (95%CI, \u22120.07~\u22120.06), and resilience and rumination were a chain mediator (95%CI, \u22120.04\u2009~\u2009\u22120.03).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Mindfulness not only influences negative emotions directly, bu<jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic> also through the mediating effect of rumination and resilience indirectly.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2023.1280663","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,21]],"date-time":"2023-12-21T04:54:55Z","timestamp":1703134495000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Mindfulness and negative emotions among Chinese college students: chain mediation effect of rumination and resilience"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Keke","family":"Shi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Guoyan","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qiyong","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Meilin","family":"Ye","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hongbo","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1080\/07448481.2021.1920954","article-title":"Depression and anxiety among college students: understanding the impact on grade average and differences in gender and ethnicity","volume":"9","author":"Asher","year":"2021","journal-title":"J. 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