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23-04-2025 | ORIGINAL PAPER

Emotion Dysregulation, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Values Engagement in US Post-9/11 Veterans

Auteurs: Allison Metts, Marcus G. Wild, Rahel Pearson, Alison Krauss, Corina Mendoza, Sheila F. O’Brien, Suzannah K. Creech

Gepubliceerd in: Mindfulness

Abstract

Objectives

Emotion dysregulation is a crucial transdiagnostic treatment target. Evidence-based psychoeducational interventions teach skills including mindfulness, self-compassion, and values engagement to improve emotion regulation.

Method

We analyzed a sample of 351 US post-9/11 veterans to examine the relationships between these skills and emotion dysregulation over time. We explored how mindfulness, self-compassion, and values engagement related to emotion dysregulation over 2 years in concurrent and lagged linear mixed models.

Results

Concurrent analyses indicated that within-person and between-person effects of mindfulness (within: standardized point estimate [Mdn] = − 0.13, between: Mdn = − 0.30), self-compassion (within: Mdn = − 0.10, between: Mdn = − 0.33), and values engagement (within: Mdn = − 0.03) were significantly negatively associated with emotion dysregulation when examined in separate models. When skills were examined simultaneously, within-person effects of mindfulness (Mdn = − 0.10) and self-compassion (Mdn = − 0.07) and the between-person effect of self-compassion (Mdn = − 0.30) were significantly negatively associated with emotion dysregulation. In lagged analyses, between-person effects of mindfulness (Mdn = − 0.22) and self-compassion (Mdn = − 0.23) significantly negatively predicted emotion dysregulation when examined in separate models. There was no evidence of significant effects of skills on emotion dysregulation when examined in a lagged analysis with other skills. There was no evidence for between-person effects of values engagement on emotion dysregulation.

Conclusions

Mindfulness and self-compassion are associated with better emotion regulation in veterans. As such, individual differences in state or trait-level standings of these skills could be assessed in veterans for tailoring treatment planning to enhance emotion regulation.

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This study is not preregistered.

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Titel: Emotion Dysregulation, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Values Engagement in US Post-9/11 Veterans
Auteurs: Allison Metts
Marcus G. Wild
Rahel Pearson
Alison Krauss
Corina Mendoza
Sheila F. O’Brien
Suzannah K. Creech
Publicatiedatum: 23-04-2025
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Mindfulness
Print ISSN: 1868-8527
Elektronisch ISSN: 1868-8535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-025-02578-9

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