Structural Relationships Between Triarchic Thinking Mindfulness and Cognitive Control in Postgraduate Students
Maryam Dylan, Bilal Alwan
preprint DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9310446/v1 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Cross-sectional structural equation modeling study |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 600 |
| Population | Male and female graduate students at the University of Anbar |
| Measures | Triarchic Thinking Scale, Mindfulness Scale, cognitive control scale |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key findings | The proposed structural model showed good fit. Triarchic thinking had statistically significant positive direct and indirect effects on cognitive control, mindfulness had statistically significant positive direct effects on cognitive control, and triarchic thinking had statistically significant positive direct effects on mindfulness. |
Abstract
Abstract Research
Objective: This study sought to construct and interpret an optimal structural model that reveals the nature of the causal relationships and the direct and indirect effects of triarchic thinking as an independent variable on cognitive control as a dependent variable, mediated by Mindfulness as a mediating variable. Research Sample: The study was applied to a sample of (600) male and female graduate students at the University of Anbar. Research Instruments: Three instruments were employed. For triarchic thinking, the researchers adopted the Triarchic Thinking Scale developed by Chae & Lee (2018), which is based on Lipman's (2003) model. For Mindfulness , the researchers adopted the Mindfulness Scale developed by Baer, R. A., Smith, G. T., & Allen, K. B. (2004). For cognitive control, the researchers constructed a scale based on the Shadow Mind (2020) theory of cognitive control. Statistical
Methods: ( SPSS) and ( AMOS 24) software were utilized to extract validity and reliability indicators for the research scales, along with path analysis to identify the directional pathways of the dimensions and the potential causal relationships among the selected variables. Research
Findings: The study arrived at the following
Findings: the proposed structural model for the relationships between triarchic thinking as an independent variable and cognitive control as a dependent variable, mediated by Mindfulness as a mediating variable, demonstrated a good fit. The findings further revealed the existence of statistically significant positive direct and indirect effects of triarchic thinking on cognitive control, statistically significant positive direct effects of Mindfulness on cognitive control, and statistically significant positive direct effects of triarchic thinking on Mindfulness among graduate students. In light of these findings, the researchers put forward a set of recommendations and suggestions.
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| Assessing mindfulness in children and adolescents: Development and validation of the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM). School-aged children and adolescents | 2011 | Cross-sectional validation study | n = 1,413 |
| Mindfulness and self-compassion as predictors of psychological wellbeing in long-term meditators and matched nonmeditators Experienced meditators and demographically matched nonmeditators | 2012 | Cross-sectional study | n = 152 |
| Mechanisms of Action in the Inverse Relationship Between Mindfulness and Psychological Distress Undergraduates | 2008 | Cross-sectional, correlational |