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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Mindfulness
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1515592
Mindfulness and Adult Attachment: the mediating role of regulatory emotional self-efficacy
Provisionally accepted- 1 School of Law, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
- 2 Research center of Humanities and Medicine, Zunyi Medical University, zunyi, China
The present study examined the influence of relationship between college students' mindfulness, adult attachment and regulatory emotional self-efficacy. A sample of 348 college students (aged 18-22) completed self-report measures of the Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale (ECR), and the Self-Regulation of Emotion Self-Efficacy Scale (SRESE) via an online survey from March 5, 2024, to March 10, 2024. Results indicated that the mediating effect of regulatory emotional self-efficacy between the two dimensions of mindfulness and adult attachment is statistically significant. The Bootstrap confidence interval of simple mediation effects were all less than 0. Mindfulness had effect sizes (ab/c) of 21% and 17% on attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance, respectively, through its influence on regulatory emotional self-efficacy. These findings indicate that increasing individuals' levels of mindfulness and regulatory emotional self-efficacy may prove to be effective strategies for improving adult attachment relationships.
Keywords: College studen, Adult Attachment (AA), mindfulness, Regulatory emotional self-efficacy, meditor
Received: 23 Oct 2024; Accepted: 26 Feb 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Liang Li, School of Law, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, Sichuan Province, China
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