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The Application of Mindfulness for Interpersonal Dependency: Effects of a Brief Intervention

McClintock, Andrew S.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1350934561

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2012, Master of Science (MS), Ohio University, Clinical Psychology (Arts and Sciences).
This study examined the efficacy of a brief mindfulness intervention for alleviating the affective consequences of interpersonal dependency. Seventy undergraduate students with high trait dependency underwent a mood induction to exacerbate the core cognitive and affective features of interpersonal dependency. Participants were then randomly assigned to listen and participate in a 20-minute recording of either a mindfulness treatment or a distraction (control) treatment. Relative to those in the distraction group, mindfulness group participants reported greater increases in state mindfulness and greater reductions in state anxiety and state negative affect. Mediation analyses supported the notion that the decentering facet of state mindfulness fully mediated the improvements in both state anxiety and state negative affect. The findings of this study evince that mindfulness training may be a beneficial adjunct for treating interpersonal dependency and possibly dependent personality disorder.
Timothy Anderson (Advisor)
Brook Marcks (Committee Member)
Justin Weeks (Committee Member)
Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy
mindfulness; decentering; interpersonal dependency; dependent personality disorder

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  • McClintock, A. S. (2012). The Application of Mindfulness for Interpersonal Dependency: Effects of a Brief Intervention [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1350934561

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McClintock, Andrew. The Application of Mindfulness for Interpersonal Dependency: Effects of a Brief Intervention. 2012. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1350934561.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McClintock, Andrew. "The Application of Mindfulness for Interpersonal Dependency: Effects of a Brief Intervention." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1350934561

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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