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Objectives: Adult attachment anxiety and avoidance and dispositional mindfulness have been identified as promising targets to address the public health epidemic of sleep disturbance. The current study sought to extend this knowledge by testing whether the five facets of mindfulness indirectly link attachment anxiety and avoidance with sleep disturbance. Methods: Two independent samples (n = 535 and 195) of emerging adults completed self-report measures on attachment anxiety and avoidance, five facets of mindfulness, and sleep disturbance. Study 1 examined cross-sectional data using mediation analysis and pairwise contrast tests. Study 2 hypotheses were examined via a two-wave cross-lagged panel model for half-longitudinal design. Results: In study 1, attachment anxiety and sleep disturbance were mediated by Nonjudging (95% BC CI [0.01, 0.09]) and Nonreactivity (95% BC CI [0.01, 0.06]); these specific indirect effects did not differ in size (95% CI [− 0.05, 0.02]). Nonjudging also mediated the relationship between attachment avoidance and sleep disturbance (95% BC CI [0.004, 0.04]). In study 2, attachment anxiety precipitated sleep disturbance via both nonreactivity (95% BC CI [0.01, 0.05]) and nonjudging (95% BC CI [0.002, 0.04]). Nonjudging also mediated the relationship between earlier attachment avoidance on later sleep disturbance (95% BC CI [.002,.03]). Conclusions: Fear and worry about romantic relationships appear to affect sleep disturbance first through lowering the tendency to employ a nonjudgmental and nonreactive quality of mind. This study adds to research indicating that the consideration of attachment anxiety and avoidance may help augment the effects of mindfulness-based strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Cyber dating abuse (CDA) has proliferated alongside the use of electronic communication technologies. Research indicates that further understanding into the individual and relational correlates of CDA will aid efforts to prevent harmful cyber dating behaviors. This study examined whether positive or negative romantic relationship quality act as intermediary variables between emotion regulation and CDA perpetration within and between romantic partners.A sample of 65 emerging adult heterosexual couples completed self-report measures on emotion regulation, positive and negative romantic relationship quality, and CDA perpetration. Data were analyzed using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model for Mediation.The results revealed that a person’s higher emotion regulation indirectly related to their own lower CDA perpetration through their own lower negative relationship quality for both women and men. Results also showed that women’s and men’s own higher emotion regulation related to their partner’s lower reports on negative relationship quality which, in turn, related to that partner’s lower reports on CDA perpetration.The findings provide insight into how a sense of emptiness in romantic relationships can explain the link between emotion regulation and CDA perpetration. Implications for preventing CDA through targeting emotion regulation skills and healthy romantic relationships are discussed.Method: Cyber dating abuse (CDA) has proliferated alongside the use of electronic communication technologies. Research indicates that further understanding into the individual and relational correlates of CDA will aid efforts to prevent harmful cyber dating behaviors. This study examined whether positive or negative romantic relationship quality act as intermediary variables between emotion regulation and CDA perpetration within and between romantic partners.A sample of 65 emerging adult heterosexual couples completed self-report measures on emotion regulation, positive and negative romantic relationship quality, and CDA perpetration. Data were analyzed using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model for Mediation.The results revealed that a person’s higher emotion regulation indirectly related to their own lower CDA perpetration through their own lower negative relationship quality for both women and men. Results also showed that women’s and men’s own higher emotion regulation related to their partner’s lower reports on negative relationship quality which, in turn, related to that partner’s lower reports on CDA perpetration.The findings provide insight into how a sense of emptiness in romantic relationships can explain the link between emotion regulation and CDA perpetration. Implications for preventing CDA through targeting emotion regulation skills and healthy romantic relationships are discussed.Results: Cyber dating abuse (CDA) has proliferated alongside the use of electronic communication technologies. Research indicates that further understanding into the individual and relational correlates of CDA will aid efforts to prevent harmful cyber dating behaviors. This study examined whether positive or negative romantic relationship quality act as intermediary variables between emotion regulation and CDA perpetration within and between romantic partners.A sample of 65 emerging adult heterosexual couples completed self-report measures on emotion regulation, positive and negative romantic relationship quality, and CDA perpetration. Data were analyzed using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model for Mediation.The results revealed that a person’s higher emotion regulation indirectly related to their own lower CDA perpetration through their own lower negative relationship quality for both women and men. Results also showed that women’s and men’s own higher emotion regulation related to their partner’s lower reports on negative relationship quality which, in turn, related to that partner’s lower reports on CDA perpetration.The findings provide insight into how a sense of emptiness in romantic relationships can explain the link between emotion regulation and CDA perpetration. Implications for preventing CDA through targeting emotion regulation skills and healthy romantic relationships are discussed.Conclusions: Cyber dating abuse (CDA) has proliferated alongside the use of electronic communication technologies. Research indicates that further understanding into the individual and relational correlates of CDA will aid efforts to prevent harmful cyber dating behaviors. This study examined whether positive or negative romantic relationship quality act as intermediary variables between emotion regulation and CDA perpetration within and between romantic partners.A sample of 65 emerging adult heterosexual couples completed self-report measures on emotion regulation, positive and negative romantic relationship quality, and CDA perpetration. Data were analyzed using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model for Mediation.The results revealed that a person’s higher emotion regulation indirectly related to their own lower CDA perpetration through their own lower negative relationship quality for both women and men. Results also showed that women’s and men’s own higher emotion regulation related to their partner’s lower reports on negative relationship quality which, in turn, related to that partner’s lower reports on CDA perpetration.The findings provide insight into how a sense of emptiness in romantic relationships can explain the link between emotion regulation and CDA perpetration. Implications for preventing CDA through targeting emotion regulation skills and healthy romantic relationships are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Because stress from marital conflict negatively impacts cardiovascular health, understanding the association between trait mindfulness and cardiovascular functioning in the context of marital conflict may translate into physical health benefits. In this study, data from married couples (N = 90) were collected to examine the intrapersonal and interpersonal associations between trait mindfulness and cardiovascular reactivity in response to a conflict discussion task. Actor-partner interdependence models showed that partners’ individual trait mindfulness scores were significantly related to their own levels of blood pressure during conflict and recovery, and partners’ levels of trait mindfulness were significantly related to their own heart rate variability during conflict discussion but not during conflict recovery. In addition, husbands’ levels of trait mindfulness were significantly related to wives’ cardiovascular reactivity during conflict; likewise, wives’ levels of trait mindfulness were significantly related to husbands’ cardiovascular reactivity during conflict. Findings suggest that higher levels of trait mindfulness may be linked with healthy cardiovascular functioning for individuals and their romantic partners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]