Resilience and Stress as Mediators in the Relationship of Mindfulness and Happiness.

Badri Bajaj,Bassam Khoury,Santoshi Sengupta

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.771263

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to examine the mediation effects of resilience and stress, two perceived opposite constructs, in the relationship between mindfulness and happiness. Mindful Attention Awareness Scale, Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale, Subjective Happiness Scale, Depression Anxiety Stress Scales short version-21 were administered to 523 undergraduate university students in India. Structural Equation Modeling with bootstrapping was applied to test the mediating effects of resilience and stress. Results showed that resilience and stress partially mediated the mindfulness-happiness relationship. In addition, resilience partially mediated the relationship of mindfulness to stress. Findings suggest that mindfulness may play an influential role in enhancing happiness through the mediating effects of resilience and stress.

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Happiness is unquestionably a personal investment worthy of pursuit (Howells et al, 2016; Srivastava and Muhammad, 2021), which is believed to create life successes and authenticate existence (Lyubomksky et al, 2005)
The results showed that the direct path coefficients in the proposed directions were significant, indicated that resilience and stress partially mediated the relationship of mindfulness to happiness (Figure 1)
The current study examined the relationship of mindfulness and happiness along with the mediation effects of resilience and stress on this relationship

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Introduction

Happiness is unquestionably a personal investment worthy of pursuit (Howells et al, 2016; Srivastava and Muhammad, 2021), which is believed to create life successes and authenticate existence (Lyubomksky et al, 2005). Individuals associate happiness with multiple personal benefits such as health, increased earnings, longer life expectancy, better social relationships, and a happier marriage (Lyubomirsky et al, 2005; Diener et al, 2017, 2018). Comprising of self-regulation of attention and orientation to experience, mindfulness helps in establishing continuing contact with experience and it may contribute to many factors related to psychological health (Keng et al, 2011) and happiness (Coo and Salanova, 2018) Mindfulness can be conceptualized as a state, which can be induced through different practices (e.g., meditation), or as a trait, which is a stable disposition (Brown and Ryan, 2003). Kabat-Zinn (1994) defined mindfulness as “the awareness that arises from paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally.” Comprising of self-regulation of attention and orientation to experience, mindfulness helps in establishing continuing contact with experience and it may contribute to many factors related to psychological health (Keng et al, 2011) and happiness (Coo and Salanova, 2018)

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