App-based Mindfulness Training for Adolescent Rumination: Predictors of Immediate and Cumulative Benefit.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Rumination is a transdiagnostic risk factor for depression and anxiety, which surge during the adolescent years. Mindfulness training - with its emphasis on metacognitive awareness and present-moment attention - may be effective at reducing rumination. Mindfulness apps offer a convenient, engaging, and cost-effective means for accessing mindfulness training for teens. Despite their increasing popularity among adolescents, no study to date has investigated which teens are well-suited to app-based mindfulness training.

Methods

Eighty adolescents (M age = 14.01 years, 45% girls) with elevated rumination were enrolled in a 3-week trial of app-based mindfulness training. Repeated daily ecological momentary assessment (EMA) surveys assessed problem-focused and em

SUBMITTER: Webb CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9009760 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature