A mediation model of mindfulness and decentering: sequential psychological constructs or one and the same?

BMC Psychology

Table 1 Descriptive statistics for the study variables

Factor	Mean (SD^a)	Cronbach’s alpha^b	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
DESC^c	4.9 (4.9)	.88
Decentering^d
ASP	11.9 (2.5)	.70	-.42**
DP	8.7 (2.7)	.70	-.41**	.39**
Mindfulness^e
AWJ	3.7 (0.8)	.79	-.48**	.33**	.35**
DES	3.5 (0.8)	.82	-.29**	.32**	.21**	.17**
AWA	2.9 (0.7)	.70	-.09	.20**	.18**	.01	.08
OBS-IN	3.0 (0.9)	.69	-.02	.17**	.04	.11*	-.06	.12**
OBS-OUT	3.2 (0.8)	.62	-.03	.12**	.03	.13**	-.09*	.03	.56**

Note. ^aSD: standard deviation; ^breliability estimation; ^cDESC: Rasch-based Depression Screening (Forkmann et al. 2009); ^dEQ-D (Gecht et al. 2014): ASP = Accepting Self-Perception; DP = Distanced Perspective; ^eKIMS-Short (Hoefling et al. 2011): AWJ = Accepting without Judgment; DES = Describing; AWA = Acting with Awareness; OBS-IN = Observing of internal phenomena; OBS-OUT = Observing of external phenomena. *The correlation is significantly different from zero at the .05 level (two-tailed); **The correlation is significantly different from zero at the .01 level (two-tailed).

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