Mindfulness and Subjective Well-being Among Chinese Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study and a Weekly Diary Investigation

AbstractEnhancing subjective well-being is essential for enlightening individual pursuit of a better life in positive psychology. Although numerous research projects have preliminarily investigated the effect of mindfulness (MD) on subjective well-being (SWB) and its potential mechanisms, few longitudinal studies have investigated the bidirectional association between MD and SWB at both trait and state levels. On this basis, this study aimed to comprehensively explain the temporary and longitudinal relationships between MD and SWB [positive affect (PA), negative affect (NA), life satisfaction (LS)] at both trait and state levels using the longitudinal and weekly diary methods. A two-wave longitudinal survey with a time interval of eight months from a sample of 504 adolescents (N = 504;M = 15.11; 56.2% female) and a seven-week weekly diary survey from a sample of 117 adolescents (N = 117;M = 15.64; 65.81% female) were designed in studies 1 and 2, respectively. In study 1, first, the confirmatory factor analysis was performed on SWB as a hierarchical construct to confirm that the global subjective well-being (gSWB) could explain the covariance among its first-order factors (PA, NA LS, Model 1). Then, two cross-lagged models (Model 2: MD - PA, NA, LS; Model 3: MD - gSWB) were constructed to explore the bidirectional relationship between trait mindfulness and SWB (PA, NA, LS, and gSWB) through Mplus 8.3. In study 2, the hierarchical linear models were initially co...
Source: Journal of Happiness Studies - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research