European journal of pain (London, England)
February 1, 2025
Elena Robles, Iván Blanco, Gustavo Díez et al.
4 citations
A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program improved depression, anxiety, stress, pain acceptance, well-being, and life satisfaction in people with chronic pain. Thirty-two participants with no prior mindfulness experience were randomly assigned to an MBSR group or a waiting list. Before the program, participants showed attentional biases toward pain-related stimuli. After MBSR, psychological symptoms improved, but attentional patterns changed little; only gaze duration across all stimuli increased. The limited attentional change raises questions about the mechanisms behind the psychological benefits. This was the first study to use eye-tracking to examine MBSR's effect on attention in chronic back pain.
Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry
December 1, 2023
Pablo Roca, Carmelo Vázquez, Gustavo Díez et al.
Mindfulness and compassion meditation programs similarly reduce the attentional blink deficit, improving attention to emotional and non-emotional stimuli. A study of 103 participants compared a mindfulness program (MBSR), a compassion program (CCT), and a no-intervention group. Both meditation programs led to significant disengagement from first-target emotions and greater accessibility of second-target emotions to consciousness, while the comparison group showed no change. Improvements in psychological distress, emotion regulation, and well-being were mediated by changes in attentional blink and emotion regulation skills. The findings suggest meditation promotes more flexible and balanced attention to emotional information, a key transdiagnostic mechanism for emotional distress and well-being.
Frontiers in Psychology
January 1, 2020
Jesus Montero-Marin, Marta Puebla-Guedea, Paola Herrera-Mercadal et al.
correction
A correction notice for a previously published article on Vipassana meditation, personality, positive psychology, retreat, and wellbeing. The notice states that the original article's DOI is 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01935 and provides a correction to that work. No findings, methods, or results are presented.
Frontiers in Psychology
January 1, 2016
Jesus Montero-Marin, Marta Puebla-Guedea, Paola Herrera-Mercadal et al.
A one-month Vipassana meditation retreat, involving 8-9 hours of daily practice, a vegetarian diet, and compulsory silence, increased non-attachment, mindfulness (observing), well-being (positive affect, balanced affect), and cooperativeness in experienced meditators compared to matched controls who did not attend the retreat. Decreases occurred in describing, negative views of others, reward dependence, and self-directedness. Non-attachment partly explained changes in decentering, acting with awareness, non-reactivity, negative affect, balanced affect, self-directedness, and life satisfaction, and moderated changes in describing and positive views of others. The retreat appears to improve psychological outcomes even in experienced meditators, with non-attachment potentially enabling further gains beyond non-intensive practice.