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Mindfulness Mediates The Relation Between Disordered Eating-Related Cognitions And Psychological Distress, Akihiko Masuda, J. W. Wendell

Psychology Faculty Publications

The present study investigated whether mindfulness mediates the relation between disordered eating-related cognitions and negative psychological outcomes within a non-clinical college sample. Disordered eating-related cognitions were positively associated with general psychological ill-health and emotional distress in interpersonal contexts and inversely related to mindfulness. Mindfulness, which was also inversely related to general psychological ill- health and emotional distress, was found to partially mediate the relations between disordered eating-related cognitions and the two predicted variables.