Emily L. B. Lykins - The Consciousness Library

Mindfulness, Consciousness, Spirituality, and Well-Being

Religion and Spirituality Across Cultures 2014 Emily L. B. Lykins 6 citations

Spiritual engagement has long been argued, and often empirically supported, as important to well-being. Recent work suggests mindfulness must be considered when investigating relationships between spirituality and health. Mindfulness, which involves the intentional direction of attention to the present moment with an accepting and nonjudgmental attitude, has received a great deal of attention...

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8950-9_11 Full text Religious coping Mindfulness training Mindfulness meditation Altered state +1

Mindfulness and self-compassion as predictors of psychological wellbeing in long-term meditators and matched nonmeditators

The Journal of Positive Psychology April 11, 2012 Ruth A. Baer, Emily L. B. Lykins, Jessica R. Peters 391 citations

Mindfulness training has well-documented effects on psychological health. Recent findings suggest that increases in both mindfulness and self-compassion may mediate these outcomes; however, their separate and combined effects are rarely examined in the same participants. This study investigated cross-sectional relationships between self-reported mindfulness, self-compassion, meditation...

DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2012.674548 Self-compassion Clinical psychology Mindfulness meditation Well-being +1

Differential Item Functioning on the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Is Minimal in Demographically Matched Meditators and Nonmeditators

Assessment December 30, 2010 Ruth A. Baer, Douglas B. Samuel, Emily L. B. Lykins 95 citations

A recent study of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire reported high levels of differential item functioning (DIF) for 18 of its 39 items in meditating and nonmeditating samples that were not demographically matched. In particular, meditators were more likely to endorse positively worded items whereas nonmeditators were more likely to deny negatively worded (reverse-scored) items. The...

DOI: 10.1177/1073191110392498 Mindfulness Facet psychology Differential item functioning Clinical psychology +4

Psychological Functioning in a Sample of Long-Term Practitioners of Mindfulness Meditation

Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy August 1, 2009 Emily L. B. Lykins, Ruth A. Baer

Although mindfulness meditation traditionally is viewed as a lifelong practice, much current knowledge about its effects is based on short-term practitioners who have participated in mindfulness-based treatment. In the current study, long-term meditators and demographically similar nonmeditators completed self-report measures of constructs expected to be related to the practice of mindfulness...

DOI: 10.1891/0889-8391.23.3.226

An empirical study of the mechanisms of mindfulness in a mindfulness‐based stress reduction program

Journal of Clinical Psychology March 6, 2009 James Carmody, Ruth A. Baer, Emily L. B. Lykins et al. 528 citations

S. L. Shapiro and colleagues (2006) have described a testable theory of the mechanisms of mindfulness and how it affects positive change. They describe a model in which mindfulness training leads to a fundamental change in relationship to experience (reperceiving), which leads to changes in self-regulation, values clarification, cognitive and behavioral flexibility, and exposure. These four...

DOI: 10.1002/jclp.20579

Construct Validity of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire in Meditating and Nonmeditating Samples

Assessment February 29, 2008 Ruth A. Baer, Gregory T. Smith, Emily L. B. Lykins et al. 2,933 citations

Previous research on assessment of mindfulness by self-report suggests that it may include five component skills: observing, describing, acting with awareness, nonjudging of inner experience, and nonreactivity to inner experience. These elements of mindfulness can be measured with the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ). The authors investigated several aspects of the construct validity...

DOI: 10.1177/1073191107313003