Dr. Rebecca MacAulay’s CARE Lab shows mindful adults age with better mental health
The study was recently featured in UMaine News.
The CARE Lab, led by Dr. Rebecca MacAulay, an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department, recently published an article in the Journal of Aging and Mental Health that found that trait mindfulness mediated the relationship between perceived stress and inhibitory control in older adults. Additionally, trait mindfulness was associated with greater self-efficacy and less subjective concerns, stress, depression, and anxiety symptoms. Collectively, these results suggest that trait mindfulness may provide psychological resilience by enhancing the capacity to intentionally suppress irrelevant information and stress-related negative affect. These cross-sectional findings raise the exciting possibility that increasing dispositional mindfulness may provide psychological resilience to the harmful effects of stress on brain health.
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