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Paoletti P, Leshem R, Pellegrino M, Ben-Soussan TD. Tackling the Electro-Topography of the Selves Through the Sphere Model of Consciousness. Front Psychol 2022; 13:836290. [PMID: 35664179 PMCID: PMC9161303 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.836290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Accepted: 03/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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In the current hypothesis paper, we propose a novel examination of consciousness and self-awareness through the neuro-phenomenological theoretical model known as the Sphere Model of Consciousness (SMC). Our aim is to create a practical instrument to address several methodological issues in consciousness research. We present a preliminary attempt to validate the SMC via a simplified electrophysiological topographic map of the Self. This map depicts the gradual shift from faster to slower frequency bands that appears to mirror the dynamic between the various SMC states of Self. In order to explore our hypothesis that the SMC's different states of Self correspond to specific frequency bands, we present a mini-review of studies examining the electrophysiological activity that occurs within the different states of Self and in the context of specific meditation types. The theoretical argument presented here is that the SMC's hierarchical organization of three states of the Self mirrors the hierarchical organization of Focused Attention, Open Monitoring, and Non-Dual meditation types. This is followed by testable predictions and potential applications of the SMC and the hypotheses derived from it. To our knowledge, this is the first integrated electrophysiological account that combines types of Self and meditation practices. We suggest this electro-topographic framework of the Selves enables easier, clearer conceptualization of the connections between meditation types as well as increased understanding of wakefulness states and altered states of consciousness.
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- Patrizio Paoletti
- Research Institute for Neuroscience, Education and Didactics, Patrizio Paoletti Foundation, Assisi, Italy
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- Department of Criminology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Research Institute for Neuroscience, Education and Didactics, Patrizio Paoletti Foundation, Assisi, Italy
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- Research Institute for Neuroscience, Education and Didactics, Patrizio Paoletti Foundation, Assisi, Italy
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Barré T, Ramier C, Mounir I, David R, Menvielle L, Marcellin F, Carrieri P, Protopopescu C, Cherikh F. Mindfulness as a Protective Factor Against Increased Tobacco and Alcohol Use in Hospital Workers Following the First COVID-19-Related Lockdown: a Study in Southern France. Int J Ment Health Addict 2022; 21:1-21. [PMID: 35095351 PMCID: PMC8783775 DOI: 10.1007/s11469-021-00739-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/11/2021] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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COVID-19-related national lockdowns worldwide have had repercussions on people's well-being and have led to increased substance use. Mindfulness has previously been associated with reduced psychological distress and benefits in terms of addictive behaviors. We aimed to assess whether dispositional mindfulness protected against increased tobacco and alcohol use in hospital workers after France's first lockdown started. All workers in two French hospitals were contacted by email to participate in an online survey. Three hundred eighty-five workers answered. We ran two separate logistic regression models to test for associations between the level of dispositional mindfulness and both increased tobacco and alcohol use, after adjusting for affect deterioration. Dispositional mindfulness was associated with a lower likelihood of increased tobacco (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) [95% CI] 0.71 [0.51; 0.99], p = 0.046) and alcohol (0.66 [0.50; 0.87], p = 0.004) use. The effect of mindfulness on tobacco use was partially mediated by affect deterioration. Dispositional mindfulness appeared to be a protective factor against lockdown-related tobacco and alcohol use increases in French hospital workers.
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- Tangui Barré
- Aix Marseille Univ, Inserm, IRD, SESSTIM, Sciences Economiques & Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de L’Information Médicale, ISSPAM, 27 Bd Jean Moulin, 13385 Cedex 5 Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Inserm, IRD, SESSTIM, Sciences Economiques & Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de L’Information Médicale, ISSPAM, 27 Bd Jean Moulin, 13385 Cedex 5 Marseille, France
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- Addictology Unit, University Hospital of Nice, Archet 2 Hospital, 151 Route de Saint-Antoine, 06200 Nice, France
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Centre Mémoire de Ressources Et de Recherche, Institut Claude Pompidou, 10 rue Molière, 06100 Nice, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Inserm, IRD, SESSTIM, Sciences Economiques & Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de L’Information Médicale, ISSPAM, 27 Bd Jean Moulin, 13385 Cedex 5 Marseille, France
- SESSTIM, Faculté de Médecine de La Timone, aile bleue, 27 Bd Jean Moulin , 13385 Cedex 5 Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Inserm, IRD, SESSTIM, Sciences Economiques & Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de L’Information Médicale, ISSPAM, 27 Bd Jean Moulin, 13385 Cedex 5 Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Inserm, IRD, SESSTIM, Sciences Economiques & Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de L’Information Médicale, ISSPAM, 27 Bd Jean Moulin, 13385 Cedex 5 Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Inserm, IRD, SESSTIM, Sciences Economiques & Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de L’Information Médicale, ISSPAM, 27 Bd Jean Moulin, 13385 Cedex 5 Marseille, France
- Addictology Unit, University Hospital of Nice, Archet 2 Hospital, 151 Route de Saint-Antoine, 06200 Nice, France
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Madjar S. Emotion regulation and evaluative understanding. PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2020.1751102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Roos C, Bowen S, Witkiewitz K. Approach coping and substance use outcomes following mindfulness-based relapse prevention among individuals with negative affect symptomatology. Mindfulness (N Y) 2020; 11:2397-2410. [PMID: 33510820 DOI: 10.1007/s12671-020-01456-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Objectives Mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP) for substance use disorders (SUDs) appears to be particularly effective among individuals with high levels of co-occurring affective symptoms. We sought to understand whether changes in approach and avoidance coping may explain the effects of MBRP among this subpopulation. Method The sample included 286 individuals with SUDs randomized to MBRP, relapse prevention (RP), or treatment-as-usual (TAU) as an aftercare treatment. We conducted conditional indirect effect models with treatment condition as the predictor, baseline affective symptoms as the moderator, changes in approach and avoidance coping over time from baseline through 6-months post-treatment as mediators, and substance use and substance-related problems at 12-months post-treatment as the outcome. Affective symptomatology at baseline was modeled as a latent factor indicated by depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms. Change in approach and avoidance coping was modeled using latent growth curve analyses. Results We found significant conditional indirect effects of MBRP, such that the interaction of MBRP vs. TAU by affective symptoms predicted increases in approach coping, which in turn predicted fewer heavy drinking days and substance-related problems at month 12. Follow-up analyses showed that increases in approach coping mediated the therapeutic effect of MBRP on these outcomes among those with high, but not low or moderate, affective symptoms. We did not find indirect or conditional indirect effects when comparing RP to TAU, or when avoidance coping was the mediator. Conclusions The pronounced therapeutic effects of MBRP among individuals with SUD and relatively higher negative affective symptoms may be due to increases in approach coping over time.
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- Corey Roos
- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
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- School of Professional Psychology, Pacific University, 190 SE 8th Avenue, Hillsboro OR 97123
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, MSC 03-2220, Albuquerque NM, 87131
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Cultivating a conflict-positive workplace: How mindfulness facilitates constructive conflict management. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Kechter A, Black DS, Riggs NR, Warren CM, Ritt-Olson A, Chou CP, Pentz MA. Factors in the perceived stress scale differentially associate with mindfulness disposition and executive function among early adolescents. JOURNAL OF CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES 2019; 28:814-821. [PMID: 31772488 PMCID: PMC6879097 DOI: 10.1007/s10826-018-01313-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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OBJECTIVES The first aim was to test the factor structure and item-loadings of the 10-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) when administered to early adolescents. The second aim was to examine associations between PSS factors, mindfulness disposition, and executive function. METHODS We analyzed data collected from 331 students in grade seven (M age=12.4, 48.9% female, 47.1% White, 26.0% Hispanic, 37.8% received free-lunch) classrooms from two ethnically/racially and socio-economically diverse schools. Participants completed paper and pencil self-report measures of stress (PSS), mindfulness disposition (Mindful Awareness Attention Scale, MAAS), and executive function (Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function, BRIEF). We tested the statistical association between two factors of the PSS: perceived coping and perceived distress with MAAS and BRIEF. RESULTS A two-factor model of the PSS, inclusive of perceived coping and perceived distress, fit the data better than a one-dimensional model. MAAS and BRIEF scores were inversely associated with PSS distress scores (β = -.62, p <.0001 and β = -.66, p <.0001, respectively), but not PSS coping scores (β = -.04, p = .21 and β = -.02, p = .57, respectively) in a model adjusted for sex, race, and socio-economic status. CONCLUSIONS Two factors in the PSS emerged among early adolescents and differentially associated with mindfulness disposition and executive function to similar magnitudes. Findings encourage future assessment of perceived stress in a more refined manner across developmental stages in order to examine trajectories of perceived distress versus perceived coping in relation to mindfulness disposition and executive function.
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- Afton Kechter
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
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- Human Development and Family Studies & Colorado School of Public Health, Colorado State University
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
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Britton WB, Davis JH, Loucks EB, Peterson B, Cullen BH, Reuter L, Rando A, Rahrig H, Lipsky J, Lindahl JR. Dismantling Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Creation and validation of 8-week focused attention and open monitoring interventions within a 3-armed randomized controlled trial. Behav Res Ther 2018; 101:92-107. [PMID: 29106898 PMCID: PMC5801080 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2017.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2017] [Revised: 09/19/2017] [Accepted: 09/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND While mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) employ two distinct practices, focused attention (FA) and open monitoring (OM), the integrated delivery of these practices in MBIs precludes understanding of their practice-specific effects or mechanisms of action. The purpose of this study is to isolate hypothesized active ingredients and practice-specific mechanistic target engagement by creating structurally equivalent interventions that differ only by the active ingredient (meditation practice) offered and to test whether the hypothesized components differentially engage the mechanistic targets that they are purported to engage. METHODS Participants were intended to be representative of American meditators and had mild to severe affective disturbances. Measures of structural equivalence included participant-level (sample characteristics), treatment-level (program structure and duration, program materials, class size, attendance, homework compliance, etc.), and instructor-level variables (training, ratings and adherence/fidelity). Measures of differential validity included analysis of program materials and verification of differential mechanistic target engagement (cognitive and affective skills and beliefs about meditation acquired by participants after the 8-week training). RESULTS The results indicate successful creation of structurally equivalent FA and OM programs that were matched on participant-level, treatment-level, and instructor-level variables. The interventions also differed as expected with respect to program materials as well as mechanistic targets engaged (skills and beliefs acquired). CONCLUSIONS These validated 8-week FA and OM training programs can be applied in future research to assess practice-specific effects of meditation.
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- Willoughby B Britton
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.
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- Virtues of Attention Project, New York University, New York, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, United States
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- Director of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Recovery Services, Cheshire County Department of Corrections, Keene, NH, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
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- Stanley Street Treatment and Resource, Fall River, MA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
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- Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
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Garland EL, Hanley AW, Baker AK, Howard MO. Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Mindfulness as a Treatment for Chronic Stress: An RDoC Perspective. CHRONIC STRESS 2017; 1. [PMID: 28840198 PMCID: PMC5565157 DOI: 10.1177/2470547017711912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Mindfulness-based interventions have been heralded as promising means of alleviating
chronic stress. While meta-analyses indicate that mindfulness-based interventions
significantly reduce global measures of stress, how mindfulness-based interventions
modulate the specific mechanisms underpinning chronic stress as operationalized by the
National Institute of Mental Health research domain criteria (RDoC) of sustained threat
has not yet been detailed in the literature. To address this knowledge gap, this article
aims to (1) review evidence that mindfulness-based interventions ameliorate each of the 10
elements of behavioral dysregulation characterizing sustained threat via an array of
mindful counter-regulatory strategies; (2) review evidence that mindfulness-based
interventions modify biological domains implicated in sustained threat, such as the
hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, as well as brain circuits involved in attentional
function, limbic reactivity, habit behavior, and the default mode network; and (3)
integrate these findings into a novel conceptual framework of mindful self-regulation in
the face of stress—the Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory. Taken together, the extant body of
scientific evidence suggests that the practice of mindfulness enhances a range
biobehavioral factors implicated in adaptive stress coping and induces self-referential
plasticity, leading to the ability to find meaning in adversity. These mechanistic
findings can inform the treatment development process to optimize the next generation of
mindfulness-based interventions for greater therapeutic efficacy.
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- Eric L Garland
- Center on Mindfulness and Integrative Health Intervention Development (C-MIIND) College of Social Work, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Center on Mindfulness and Integrative Health Intervention Development (C-MIIND) College of Social Work, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Center on Mindfulness and Integrative Health Intervention Development (C-MIIND) College of Social Work, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Kivity Y, Tamir M, Huppert JD. Self-Acceptance of Negative Emotions: The Positive Relationship With Effective Cognitive Reappraisal. Int J Cogn Ther 2016. [DOI: 10.1521/ijct_2016_09_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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Kasai Y, Sakakibara T, Kyaw TA, Soe ZW, Han ZM, Htwe MM. Psychological effects of meditation at a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar. J Ment Health 2015; 26:4-7. [PMID: 26698922 DOI: 10.3109/09638237.2015.1124405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Meditation is widely used as a therapeutic measure because it can effectively reduce stress, pain, and improve the mental health, but there are many unclear points about the psychological effects of meditation. AIMS The purpose of this study is to verify the psychological effects of meditation. METHOD The short version of Profile of Mood States (POMS-SF) and the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II) were conducted to compare 97 Myanmar people practicing Vipassana contemplation training with 81 Myanmar nurses who did not have any experience with meditation. RESULTS The results of our study revealed that meditation mitigated depressive mood, anger, hostility, and fatigue and increased vigor. The enhancement of psychological flexibility occurred only after practicing meditation for more than a year. CONCLUSIONS It can be considered that meditation mitigates anger, hostility and fatigue and increases vigor at a relatively early stage after starting meditation practice, and if meditation practice is continued for more than a year, enhancement of psychological flexibility can also be expected.
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- Yuichi Kasai
- a Department of Spinal Surgery and Medical Engineering , Mie University Graduate School of Medicine , Tsu City , Japan
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- a Department of Spinal Surgery and Medical Engineering , Mie University Graduate School of Medicine , Tsu City , Japan
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- b Department of Orthopaedic Surgery , University of Medicine , Yangon-1, Yangon , Myanmar , and
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- b Department of Orthopaedic Surgery , University of Medicine , Yangon-1, Yangon , Myanmar , and
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- c Department of Orthopaedic Surgery , University of Medicine , Mandalay , Mandalay , Myanmar
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- c Department of Orthopaedic Surgery , University of Medicine , Mandalay , Mandalay , Myanmar
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Nakamura Y, Ho SS. A Causal Versus Enabling Impact of Mindfulness on the Genesis of Meaning. PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRY 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/1047840x.2015.1075851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Garland EL, Farb NA, Goldin P, Fredrickson BL. Mindfulness Broadens Awareness and Builds Eudaimonic Meaning: A Process Model of Mindful Positive Emotion Regulation. PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRY 2015; 26:293-314. [PMID: 27087765 DOI: 10.1080/1047840x.2015.1064294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 274] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Contemporary scholarship on mindfulness casts it as a form of purely non-evaluative engagement with experience. Yet, traditionally mindfulness was not intended to operate in a vacuum of dispassionate observation, but was seen as facilitative of eudaimonic mental states. In spite of this historical context, modern psychological research has neglected to ask the question of how the practice of mindfulness affects downstream emotion regulatory processes to impact the sense of meaning in life. To fill this lacuna, here we describe the Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory, from which we derive a novel process model of mindful positive emotion regulation informed by affective science, in which mindfulness is proposed to introduce flexibility in the generation of cognitive appraisals by enhancing interoceptive attention, thereby expanding the scope of cognition to facilitate reappraisal of adversity and savoring of positive experience. This process is proposed to culminate in a deepened capacity for meaning-making and greater engagement with life.
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Hanley AW, Garland EL. Dispositional Mindfulness Co-varies with Self-Reported Positive Reappraisal. PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 2014; 66:146-152. [PMID: 24904191 DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Emerging research suggests that mindfulness is associated with positive reappraisal and that mindfulness practice may be a means of encouraging positive reappraisal capacities. These findings, linking mindfulness with the promotion of cognitive coping strategies, challenge traditional Western conceptualizations of mindfulness as non-discursive. This study explored the relationship between dispositional mindfulness and self-reported positive reappraisal across five distinct samples: a general sample of American adults, contemplative practitioners, college students chronic pain outpatients, and alcohol dependent inpatient. Results indicate that dispositional mindfulness is positively related with self-reported positive reappraisal in all five studies as well as in an aggregated analysis combining all five studies. Furthermore, a second set of analyses statistically controlling for factors previously associated with positive reappraisal (i.e., psychological well-being, positive affect, and positive refocusing), provided evidence that mindfulness is uniquely associated with self-reported positive reappraisal. While more research is needed to refine our understanding of the relationship between mindfulness and positive reappraisal, the present investigation contributes to the growing evidence base supporting the hypothesized link between dispositional mindfulness and self-reported reappraisal by demonstrating a significant association between these constructs across a variety of samples and in the largest combined dataset on this phenomenon collected to date (N=819).
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Putatively, mindfulness meditation involves generation of a state of "nonappraisal", yet, little is known about how mindfulness may influence appraisal processes. We investigated whether the state and practice of mindfulness could enhance cognitive reappraisal. Participants (N = 44; M age = 24.44, SD = 4.00, range 19 - 38, 82.2% female) were randomized to either 1) mindfulness, 2) suppression, or 3) mind-wandering induction training conditions. Cognitive reappraisal was assessed with the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) prior to experimental induction, and state mindfulness was assessed immediately following induction using the Toronto Mindfulness Scale (TMS). Participants practiced their assigned strategy for one week and then were reassessed with the ERQ reappraisal subscale. Participants receiving mindfulness training reported significantly higher levels of state mindfulness than participants in the thought suppression and mind wandering conditions. Although brief mindfulness training did not lead to significantly greater increases in reappraisal than the other two conditions, state mindfulness during mindfulness meditation was prospectively associated with increases in reappraisal. Path analysis revealed that the indirect effect between mindfulness training and reappraisal was significant through state mindfulness. Degree of state mindfulness achieved during the act of mindfulness meditation significantly predicted increases in reappraisal over time, suggesting that mindfulness may promote emotion regulation by enhancing cognitive reappraisal.
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