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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Mindfulness
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1411901
This article is part of the Research Topic The Interplay of Stress, Health, and Well-being: Unraveling the Psychological and Physiological Processes - Volume II View all 29 articles

Dispositional Mindfulness Profiles and Psychological Symptoms: A Latent Profile

Provisionally accepted
Fereshteh Mehrabi Fereshteh Mehrabi 1,2*Shadi Beshai Shadi Beshai 1
  • 1 University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • 2 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

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    Objectives: In this study, we aimed to (1) examine profiles of mindfulness using the short form of the FFMQ (FFMQ-SF), (2) identify the demographic predictor (i.e., sex) of mindfulness profile membership, and (3) examine associations of mindfulness profiles with psychological outcomes (i.e., anxiety and depressive symptoms).This cross-sectional study included 604 individuals recruited from Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform (MTurk). We performed latent profile analyses (LPA) to explore the individual profiles based on scores on dispositional mindfulness facets. Dispositional mindfulness was measured using the Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire-Short Form (FFMQ-SF). Depression was assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9). Anxiety symptoms were measured by the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7).We identified three mindfulness profiles including, Judgmentally Describing, Low Mindfulness, and Non-Judgmentally Describing. Participants in the Low Mindfulness group were more likely to be women compared to the other two profiles (Judgmentally Describing and Non-Judgmentally Describing groups). Participants in the Low Mindfulness group had the highest levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms, whereas individuals in the Non-Judgementally Describing group had the lowest levels of depression and anxiety.In the present study, we demonstrated three profiles of the FFMQ-SF, which had differential relationships with anxiety and depressive symptoms. Consideration of such profiles may help clinicians to develop more fine-tuned mindfulness-based psychological interventions.

    Keywords: Dispositional mindfulness, latent profile analysis, Depression, Anxiety, Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

    Received: 03 Apr 2024; Accepted: 09 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Mehrabi and Beshai. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Fereshteh Mehrabi, University of Regina, Regina, S4S 0A2, Saskatchewan, Canada

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