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Relationship between dispositional mindfulness, psychological health, and diet quality among healthy midlife adults
This 2020 study explains that mindfulness (the practice of non-judgmental awareness of present experience) has been linked with reduced eating psychopathology and emotion-driven eating. Thus, this study set out to find out whether dispositional mindfulness is also related to diet quality. A sample of 406 adults agreed to provide ratings of their dispositional mindfulness, depressive symptoms, perceived stress, positive affect, and negative affect. Greater dispositional mindfulness was associated with higher diet quality (assessed using a food questionnaire). This positive relationship between mindfulness and diet quality was mediated by lower depressive symptoms. Furthermore, dispositional mindfulness was found to positively correlate with positive affect but inversely interact with negative affect and perceived stress. This article concludes that dispositional mindfulness may be related to diet quality among midlife adults. Since lifestyle behaviors in midlife can help predict risk of future cardiovascular disease and cognitive dysfunction, interventions designed to enhance mindfulness may lower disease risk. [NPID: mindfulness, interoception, psychology, depression, emotional eating, diet, diet quality, stress, positive affect, negative affect, positivity, negativity]
Year: 2020
