From Mindfulness to Meaning: Implications for the Theory of Posttraumatic Growth

Paths from core belief disruption to post‐traumatic stress symptoms and post‐traumatic growth among Korean undergraduates: The mediating role of rumination

“…Interventions should facilitate students' intentional and purposeful contemplation to make sense of the stressful event and to integrate what they have newly learned into their perspectives about the world. For instance, mindfulness practice can help college students shift intrusive to deliberate rumination by having them step back from the traumatic exposures and attend to their present‐moment thoughts and feelings associated with traumatic experiences without judgement (Tedeschi & Blevins, ). A writing intervention that guides students to process traumatic events emotionally and cognitively can also be an effective way to help students make meaning out of their traumatic exposures (Cafaro, Iani, Costantini, & Di Leo, ).…”

From Life’s Difficulties to Posttraumatic Growth: How Do We Get There?

“…One way of creating meaning is through active cognitive appraisal. As a trauma unfolds, intrusive rumination can often become the default as the assumptive worldview of fundamental predictability in our lives is shattered (Tedeschi & Blevins, 2015). Intrusive ruminations occur unexpectedly, and can trigger stress responses characteristic of the PTSD symptoms previously described, such as hypervigilance.…”

“…Another way of interacting with thoughts in a more constructive way is deliberate rumination (Tedeschi & Blevins, 2015). Deliberate ruminations focus on cognitive reappraisal and are effortful, opposed to automatic, and occur much later in the re-building process.…”

Examining posttraumatic growth and mindfulness in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis

“…Further, mindfulness states facilitated by meditation and positive reappraisal coping mutually strengthened and reinforced each other over time (Garland, Kiken, Faurot, Palsson, & Gaylord, 2017), supporting the hypothesis that this relationship may be conceptualized as an upward spiral. Tedeschi and Blevins (2015) speculated about how the mindfulness-to-meaning theory may apply to posttraumatic growth, asserting that the processes of mindfulness, decentering, and positive reappraisals likely play a role in facilitating growth among the five factors of PTG. The authors also caution that more research is needed to generalize the mechanisms of the mindfulness-to-meaning theory to the relationship between mindfulness and PTG.…”

“…The non-relationship between PTG and mindfulness in this study may also be a reflection of the extent to which RA is perceived as a traumatic event. In response to Garland and colleagues' (2015) proposed mindfulness-to-meaning theory, Tedeschi and Blevins (2015) encouraged researchers to consider how the severity of the trauma influences the extent to which survivors engage in the mindful, cognitive-emotional mechanisms that are proposed to facilitate growth. They argued that a certain degree of distress is required to prompt the intrusive and deliberate rumination required of the positive reappraisal process.…”