To examine the promoting effect of positive rumination training on mental
health and attentional bias in individual counseling, students with maladaptive
rumination were recruited. Five participants in experimental group and 7 participants
in the control group finished the study. The experimental participants each received
7 sessions with 1 hour per session and were followed in 4 weeks. The results showed
that, for the experimental group, the positive ruination and life satisfaction increased
significantly whereas negative rumination, depression and anxiety decreased
significantly. For the control group, all the variables did not change significantly.
However, all the attentional bias variables of both groups did not change significantly.
The results indicate that individual positive rumination training is effective to promote
mental health, but further research is needed to examine if the training effect can
transfer to attentional bias.