@article{ref1,
title="Mindfulness moderates the relation between trauma and anxiety symptoms in college students",
journal="Journal of American college health",
year="2019",
author="Tubbs, Justin D. and Savage, Jeanne E. and Adkins, Amy E. and Amstadter, Ananda B. and Dick, Danielle M.",
volume="67",
number="3",
pages="235-245",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To explore the relations between trauma exposure and anxiety and depression among college students, and to determine whether trait mindfulness may moderate these relations. PARTICIPANTS: Self-report survey data from 2,336 college sophomores was drawn from a larger university-wide study (&quot;Spit for Science&quot;). <br><br>METHODS: We constructed multiple linear regression models using past-year trauma exposure, trait mindfulness, and their multiplicative interaction to predict current anxiety and depressive symptom severity, while controlling for covariates. <br><br>RESULTS: Mindfulness was associated with lower levels of depression and anxiety symptom severity. Trauma was a significant predictor of anxiety, but not depression, and high levels of mindfulness attenuated the association between trauma exposure and higher anxiety symptom severity. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: These results have implications for the treatment and prevention of anxiety among trauma-exposed college students and provides a basis for further research into the mechanisms through which mindfulness may facilitate positive mental health.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0744-8481",
doi="10.1080/07448481.2018.1477782",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2018.1477782"
}