TY  - EJOU
AU  - Zhong, He 
AU  - Zhou, Yaping 
AU  - Liu, Chenwei 
AU  - Cao, Yintao 

TI  - Mediating Effect of Mindfulness, Self-Esteem and Psychological Resilience in the Relation between Childhood Maltreatment and Life Satisfaction
T2  - International Journal of Mental Health Promotion

PY  - 2024
VL  - 26
IS  - 6
SN  - 2049-8543

AB  - Childhood maltreatment, as a typical early adverse environment, is known to have a negative impact on one’s life satisfaction. Mindfulness, on the other hand, may serve as a protective factor. This study explored the mediating role of mindfulness and its related variables–positive thoughts, psychological resilience and self-esteem. In order to testify the mechanism, we administered Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) to a non-clinical sample of Chinese university students (N = 1021). The results indicated that positive thoughts did not mediate the relationship between childhood maltreatment and life satisfaction, but self-esteem (<i>β</i> = −0.194, 95% CI = [−0.090, −0.040]) and psychological resilience (<i>β</i> = −0.063, 95% CI = [−0.059, −0.020]) mediated the relationship, as well as the “mindfulness-self-esteem” (<i>β</i> = −0.061, 95% CI = [−0.287, −0.126]) and “mindfulness-psychological resilience” (<i>β</i> = −0.035, 95% CI = [−0.115, −0.034]). The results of this study were helpful to understand the relationship between childhood maltreatment and life satisfaction and provided a theoretical basis for the development of mindfulness intervention programs from the perspective of positive psychology.
KW  - Mindfulness; childhood maltreatment; life satisfaction; self-esteem; resilience

DO  - 10.32604/ijmhp.2024.049408