Dispositional Mindfulness Predicts Adaptive Affective Responses to Health Messages and Increased Exercise Motivation.
Mindfulness September 13, 2016 Yoona Kang, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Victor J Strecher et al.
Feelings can shape how people respond to persuasive messages. In health communication, adaptive affective responses to potentially threating messages constitute one key to intervention success. The current study tested dispositional mindfulness, characterized by awareness of the present moment, as a predictor of adaptive affective responses to potentially threatening health messages and...
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-016-0608-7 (opens in new tab)
Full text (opens in new tab)
Mindfulness
Affect
Physical activity
Health communication
+1