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Mindfulness and Attachment Anxiety in Nepali Working Adults: The Mediating Role of Emotional Clarity

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  • Bishnu Bahadur Ale

    (Dongbang Culture University, South Korea)

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Attachment anxiety is also becoming one of the vulnerability factors of distress in the workplace, especially in a collectivistic and high-stress society like Nepal. Mindfulness has been suggested as a protective resource, but there is no clear information concerning the mechanisms. This research study investigated whether emotional clarity, the capacity to recognize and comprehend their feelings, mediates the relationship between trait mindfulness and attachment anxiety in Nepali working adults. The survey was a cross-sectional survey involving 312 full-time employees (52.6 percent female; Mage = 32.4 years, SD = 6.8) in healthcare, education, banking, and IT companies in Kathmandu Valley from January to March 2025. The participants were given the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire-Short Form (FFMQ-SF), Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised Anxiety subscale (ECR-R Anxiety), and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-Clarity subscale (DERS-Clarity, reverse-scored). Holding age, gender, and work sector constant, structural equation modeling found that mindfulness had a negative relationship with attachment anxiety (β = -.38, p

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  • Bishnu Bahadur Ale, 2026. "Mindfulness and Attachment Anxiety in Nepali Working Adults: The Mediating Role of Emotional Clarity," Research Journal in Psychology and Behavioral Studies, Bluemark Publishers, vol. 3(1), pages 42-46, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cxi:rjpbs0:v:3:y:2026:i:1:id:910
    DOI: 10.61424/rjpbs.v3i1.910
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