A cross-cultural study on mindfulness and mental health

Background: This study aimed to investigate the moderating effect of COVID-19 infection severity in the country on the relationship between mindfulness and mental health among university students in Australia, China, and India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cross-sectional surveys conducted between 2 June to 29 August 2021, involved a total of 704 participants, ultimately yielding a final sample of 621 students, including 211 Australians, 188 Chinese, and 222 Indians.

Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) was performed to test the measurement invariance (MI) across the three countries. IBM’s SPSS v28 was used for data analysis, involving the analysis of variance (ANOVA), cross-tabulation analysis , and moderation analysis with 5000 resamples to bootstrap 95% confidence intervals.

This dataset includes:

The data of a cross-sectional survey on mindfulness and mental health conducted between 2 June to 29 August 2021, involved a total of 704 participants, ultimately yielding a final sample of 621 students, including 211 Australians, 188 Chinese, and 222 Indians.

• Survey data in .sav and .csv
• Codebook in .xlsx and .csv

Software/equipment used to create/collect the data: SPSS

Software/equipment used to manipulate/analyse the data: SPSS