Although these authors did not assess thought or emotion suppression
as possible mediating variables, given the significant correlation between these variables and emotional
unclarity, we suspect that they may very well play mediating roles
as well.
The model that best accounted for this relation included the mediating variables of rumination, negative emotion, and emotional
unclarity (these authors did not include emotional suppression or thought suppression
as possible mediators).
Of special interest in the present study, low dispositional mindfulness has been associated with hyperactivating processes such
as rumination (Raes & Williams, 2010) and negative emotion (Brown & Ryan, 2003), and with deactivating processes such
as thought suppression (Feldman, Hayes, Kumar, Greeson, & Laurenceau, 2007) and emotional
unclarity (Baer, Smith, & Allen, 2004).