The relationship between mindfulness and depression: examining the chain mediating role of shyness and core self-evaluation.
BMC psychology April 23, 2025 Lin Liu, Hailing Jia, Baiyang Qiu et al. 3 citations
Higher mindfulness is linked to fewer depressive symptoms in college students, partly because it reduces shyness and improves core self-evaluation. A chain mediation model using two samples (646 and 269 students) showed that mindfulness influences depression sequentially through shyness and then core self-evaluation. The findings suggest that mindfulness practices may help prevent or treat depressive symptoms, especially in shy students, by lowering shyness and boosting self-evaluation.