Correction to: Increases in external sensory observing cross-sectionally mediate the repair of positive affect following Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in individuals with residual depression symptoms (Mindfulness, (2023), 14, 1, (113-127), 10.1007/s12671-022-02032-0)

Abstract

In the published article, the author wishes to correct the scoring scale for DPES (rating items on 1 to 5 not the standard 1 to 7 scale). In the Measure section, the below should be updated: The measure of PA was a composite of subscales from the Dispositional Positive Emotions Scale (DPES; Shiota et al., 2006), which ask participants to rate to what extent they agree with a variety of statements on a scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree). We chose to focus on the joy subscale (six items; e.g. “On a typical day, many events make me happy”) and the contentment subscale (five items; e.g. “I am generally a contented person”), as these correspond to high and low arousal PA respectively. The 11 items were added together to form a single DPES PA scale, ranging from 11 to 77. The measure of PA was a composite of subscales from the Dispositional Positive Emotions Scale (DPES; Shiota et al., 2006), which ask participants to rate to what extent they agree with a variety of statements about experience of positive emotions. We chose to focus on the joy subscale (six items; e.g. “On a typical day, many events make me happy”) and the contentment subscale (five items; e.g. “I am generally a contented person”), as these correspond to high and low arousal PA respectively. Each item was rated on a scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). This a minor modification to the original DPES validation papers (Shiota et al., 2006), where each item was rated on a scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree), meaning the current data cannot be directly benchmarked against existing normative data on the DPES. Thus, this erratum is presented to fix the error. The original article has been corrected.