ArticleDepression and anxiety2015
A multivariate twin study of trait mindfulness, depressive symptoms, and anxiety sensitivity.
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- Investigating the causal risk factors for self-harm by integrating Mendelian randomisation within twin modelling.Behavior genetics · 2022Article
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- Exploring the Roles of Dispositional Mindfulness and Cognitive Reappraisal in the Relationship Between Neuroticism and Depression Among Postgraduate Students in China.International journal of public health · 2022Article
- Why do depression, conduct, and hyperactivity symptoms co-occur across adolescence? The role of stable and dynamic genetic and environmental influences.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Article
- Genetic and environmental aetiologies of associations between dispositional mindfulness and ADHD traits: a population-based twin study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2019Article
- How can mindfulness be promoted? Workload and recovery experiences as antecedents of daily fluctuations in mindfulness.Journal of occupational and organizational psychology · 2018Article
- Dispositional Mindfulness and Psychological Health: a Systematic Review.Mindfulness · 2018Review
- Efficacy of 8- and 4-Session Mindfulness-Based Interventions in a Non-clinical Population: A Controlled Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Shared Etiology of Psychotic Experiences and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: A Longitudinal Twin Study.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2016Article
- Associations of Dispositional Mindfulness with Obesity and Central Adiposity: the New England Family Study.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2016Article
- Associations of Mindfulness with Glucose Regulation and Diabetes.American journal of health behavior · 2016Article
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backgroundMindfulness-based therapies have been shown to be effective in treating depression and reducing cognitive biases. Anxiety sensitivity is one cognitive bias that may play a role in the association between mindfulness and depressive symptoms. It refers to an enhanced sensitivity toward symptoms of anxiety, with a belief that these are harmful. Currently, little is known about the mechanisms underpinning the association between mindfulness, depression, and anxiety sensitivity. The aim of this study was to examine the role of genetic and environmental factors in trait mindfulness, and its genetic and environmental overlap with depressive symptoms and anxiety sensitivity.
methodsOver 2,100 16-year-old twins from a population-based study rated their mindfulness, depressive symptoms, and anxiety sensitivity.
resultsTwin modeling analyses revealed that mindfulness is 32% heritable and 66% due to nonshared environmental factors, with no significant influence of shared environment. Genetic influences explained over half of the moderate phenotypic associations between low mindfulness, depressive symptoms, and anxiety sensitivity. About two-thirds of genetic influences and almost all nonshared environmental influences on mindfulness were independent of depression and anxiety sensitivity.
conclusionsThis is the first study to show that both genes and environment play an important role in the etiology of mindfulness in adolescence. Future research should identify the specific environmental factors that influence trait mindfulness during development to inform targeted treatment and resilience interventions. Shared genetic liability underpinning the co-occurrence of low mindfulness, depression, and anxiety sensitivity suggests that the biological pathways shared between these traits should also be examined.
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