Untangling Effects and Interactions of Mindfulness and Emotional Literacy: Metacognitive Beliefs as a Pathway of Reductions in Anxiety and Depression Through a Mindfulness-Based Intervention

Corey Jackson

doi:10.25907/00926

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Untangling Effects and Interactions of Mindfulness and Emotional Literacy: Metacognitive Beliefs as a Pathway of Reductions in Anxiety and Depression Through a Mindfulness-Based Intervention

Corey Jackson

Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland

2025

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https://doi.org/10.25907/00926

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Abstract

Clinical and health psychology

Other psychology

mindfullness

meditation

metacognitive beliefs

rumination

mind-wandering

worry

S-REF model

anxiety

depression

cultivating emotional balance

The primary aim of this thesis was to investigate metacognitive beliefs of the Self-Regulatory Executive Function (S-REF) model as a possible mechanism behind symptomology-reduction effects of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs). Our motivation for this came from the current opacity of these mechanisms which hampers the refinement of current and development of new MBIs for higher efficacy across different populations and symptomology. To add nuance to this understanding, subtypes of mind-wandering (deliberate and spontaneous) and rumination (reflective and brooding) were included in the Cognitive Attentional Syndrome (CAS) of this model which also showed variance in their correlations with metacognitive beliefs and symptomology of anxiety and depression. Regular meditators were found to score significantly higher in dispositional mindfulness and significantly lower on maladaptive cognitive processes and symptomology, all of which was cause to examine more closely using a randomised control trial.

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Title: Untangling Effects and Interactions of Mindfulness and Emotional Literacy: Metacognitive Beliefs as a Pathway of Reductions in Anxiety and Depression Through a Mindfulness-Based Intervention
Authors: Corey Jackson - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
Contributors: Christian M Jones (Principal Supervisor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Engage Research Lab
Awarding institution: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Degree awarded: Doctor of Philosophy
DOI: 10.25907/00926
Grant note: This research was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.
Organisation Unit: School of Law and Society
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991128904702621
Output Type: Dissertation

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