Emotion Regulation Mediates the Dispositional Mindfulness/Serenity – Stress/Well-Being Relationships during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Positive and negative emotion regulation mediated the relationships between dispositional mindfulness and stress/wellbeing as well as dispositional serenity and stress/wellbeing, in 492 undergraduates in the United States, during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, dispositional mindfulness and serenity directly predicted increasing wellbeing and decreasing stress, over and above emotion regulation.