The chain mediating role of resilience and stress perception between mindfulness and PTSD among college students after campus violence.
BMC psychiatry May 20, 2025 Qi Sun, Kaiyuan Jing, Xiaoxiao Xu et al.
Higher levels of mindfulness among college students after a campus violent event are associated with lower post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and this relationship works partly through two linked factors: greater psychological resilience and lower perceived stress. Mindfulness positively correlates with resilience and negatively correlates with both stress perception and PTSD. Resilience and stress perception each independently mediate the mindfulness–PTSD link, and they also act in sequence: resilience predicts lower stress perception, which in turn relates to lower PTSD. The findings suggest that mindfulness may buffer trauma responses by strengthening resilience and reducing how stressful students perceive events to be.