Trial reportJournal of behavioral medicine2013
Effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on distressed (type D) personality traits: a randomized controlled trial.
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19 citing papers in PubMed.
- Type D personality and quality of life among polish university students: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The key role of cognitive fusion linking mindfulness and personality: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Synergistic Effects of Type D ("Distressed") Personality Traits on Coronary Microvascular Function in Male Physicians With Occupational Burnout: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Impact of the Empathic Understanding of People and Type D Personality as the Correlates of Social Skills of Primary Health Care Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Evaluation of Coping Strategies among Students with Type D Personality.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Influence of Personality Type D on Cardiovascular Prognosis in Patients After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Data from a 5-Year-Follow-up Study.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Article
- Does the practice of mindfulness reduce somatic symptoms and COVID-19-related anxiety? A community-based survey.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Role of Equanimity on the Mediation Model of Neuroticism, Perceived Stress and Depressive Symptoms.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The indirect effect of positive affect in the relationship between trait mindfulness and emotion dysregulation.Personality and individual differences · 2019Article
- Enhanced Attentional Network by Short-Term Intensive Meditation.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- The physical and psychological health benefits of positive emotional writing: Investigating the moderating role of Type D (distressed) personality.British journal of health psychology · 2018Article
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- For Whom Does Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Work? Moderating Effects of Personality.Mindfulness · 2017Article
- Traits and states in mindfulness meditation.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2016Article
- Prospects for a clinical science of mindfulness-based intervention.The American psychologist · 2015Review
- The role of personality in the course of health-related quality of life and disease-specific health status among colorectal cancer survivors: A prospective population-based study from the PROFILES registry.Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden) · 2015Article
- Relationship between Type-D personality, physical activity behaviour and climacteric symptoms.BMC women's health · 2015Article
- Mindfulness may both moderate and mediate the effect of physical fitness on cardiovascular responses to stress: a speculative hypothesis.Frontiers in physiology · 2014Article
- How are depression and type D personality associated with outcomes in chronic heart failure patients?Current heart failure reports · 2013Review
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Abstract
Distressed ('Type D') personality, the combination of negative affectivity (NA) and social inhibition (SI), has been associated with adverse health outcomes. The purpose of this study was to examine if an 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program could reduce Type D personality characteristics. Distressed individuals from the Dutch general population (N = 146; mean age = 46.07; 69 % female) participated in a randomized trial comparing the mindfulness intervention with waitlist control. Although change in Type D caseness did not differ between groups, the intervention group showed stronger reductions for both NA (p < .001) and SI (p < .05) dimensions, even when change in state negative affect was statistically controlled. These effects were mediated by change in self-reported mindfulness. In conclusion, MBSR may reduce characteristics of the distressed personality type, likely through the mechanism of increased mindfulness.
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