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Interest in mindfulness and relationship satisfaction is increasinglygrowing. However, although partners in a relationship have mutually interacted,there are few studies exploring this from a dyadic perspective. Thus, this researchaims to investigate this dyadic association and furthermore the mediating role ofattachment-related process, attachment avoidance and anxiety via Actor-PartnerInterdependence Model. Participants of the study were 196 heterosexual collegestudent couples, 196 males' average age 21.26 (SD = 2.17), 196 females' average age20.66 (SD = 1.88), relationship length ranging from 1 month to 95 months (M = 22.25(24.67) for males, M = 20.98 (18.98) for females), approximately 36.73% of couplesin long-distance love. They were measured by the Five Facet MindfulnessQuestionnaire, a revised version of the Experience in Close RelationshipsQuestionnaire and the Intimate Relationship Quality Questionnaire. Results showedthat the actor effects of mindfulness on relationship satisfaction were significantfor both males and females, while the partner effect only displayed for males. Itrevealed a mixed dyadic pattern for males and an actor-only pattern for females.Additionally, actor-partner interdependence mediation analysis showed that actormindfulness was associated with higher relationship satisfaction directly andindirectly. Indirectly, higher actor level of mindfulness was linked to greatersecure attachment, lower attachment avoidance, and attachment anxiety, and thus tohigher relationship satisfaction. Partner mindfulness was associated with higherrelationship satisfaction only indirectly in two ways. Higher partner levels ofmindfulness were associated with secure attachment, lower partner avoidance, andself's attachment anxiety, and thus to self's higher relationship satisfaction. Thecurrent study advances our understanding of attachment in the association betweenmindfulness and relationship from a dyadic perspective. Limitations and futureresearch were discussed., Author(s): Linli Zhou [sup.1] [sup.2] , Yijun Lin [sup.2] , Wen Li [sup.3] , Jiaxuan Du [sup.4] , Wei Xu [sup.2] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.263785.d, 0000 0004 0368 7397, School [...]

Engaging in physical activities or spending enough time asleep could bring sufficient benefits to individuals, especially influencing their affect. The study investigated the association between physical activities or sleep and affect inertia, and explored the relationship between physical activities or sleep time and affect variability. Using Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA), students from a Chinese university (N = 96) were asked to answer a series of questions five times a day (at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. and 8 p.m.) for 7 consecutive days to report their different kinds of temporary affect states. Each subject was asked to wear a sports bracelet, which was used to record their amount of physical activities and the length of sleep each day. Contrary to the hypothesis, the result revealed that physical activities were significantly and positively associated with the affect variability of anxiety. The relationships between sleep time and any kind of affect variability were absent. As hypothesized, physical activities were negatively associated with affect inertia of anxiety, sadness, negative affect, activeness and interest, and sleep time was negatively associated with affect inertia of depression. These relationships could be explained by the characteristics of the subjects and physiology. The results show that physical activities and enough sleep are important in people's daily life. Limitations and implications for the present intervention and future research are discussed., Author(s): Xue Wen [sup.1] , Yuanyuan An [sup.1] , Wen Li [sup.2] , Jiaxuan Du [sup.1] , Wei Xu [sup.3] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.260474.3, 0000 0001 0089 5711, School of [...]

Breast cancer impacts not only the physical and mental health of patients but also the people around them-especially their caregivers. This study examined the relationship between post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and caregiver burden in breast cancer patients through the mediating pathway of anxiety and depression., Methods: A total of 236 breast cancer patients from China completed the Chinese Version of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Scale (PSS), the Chinese version of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), the Chinese version of the General Anxiety Symptoms Scale (GAD-7). In addition, caregivers of these breast cancer patients were surveyed by the Caregiver Self-Assessment Questionnaire (CSAQ)., Results: Structural equation model showed that our model fitted well [χ 2 /df = 1.966, TLI = 0.959, CFI = 0.994, RMSEA (90% CI) = 0.065 (0-0.12)] and revealed that anxiety, but not depression, mediated the relationship between PTSS in breast cancer patients and caregiver burden., Conclusion: The level of PTSS was positively correlated with anxiety and depression in breast cancer patients, and the level of anxiety and depression was positively related to caregiver burden. The PTSS of patients positively predicted caregiver burden and this relationship appears to be mediated by the patient's anxiety., (© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.)