Frontiers in Psychology
2018
César Rodríguez-Ledo, Santos Orejudo, Maria Jesús Cardoso et al.
Emotional intelligence (EI) and mindfulness are two constructs that have been separately studied, and the relation between them still remains unclear. Research in this area has not attempted to go further into how enhancing EI and mindfulness together can achieve better improvements in this ability to attend mindfully. To bridge this knowledge gap, our research goal was to study the...
PLoS One
2018
Deanna M Kaplan, Charles L. Raison, Anne Milek et al.
Mindfulness has seen an extraordinary rise as a scientific construct, yet surprisingly little is known about how it manifests behaviorally in daily life. The present study identifies assumptions regarding how mindfulness relates to behavior and contrasts them against actual behavioral manifestations of trait mindfulness in daily life. Study 1 (N = 427) shows that mindfulness is assumed to...
Mindfulness
2018
Anna F Leyland, Lisa-Marie Emerson, Georgina Rowse
Several sessions of mindfulness practice can exert positive gains for child executive functions (EF); however, the evidence for effects of a mindfulness induction, on EF for adults, is mixed and this effect has not been tested in children. The immediate effect of an age appropriate 3-min mindfulness induction on EF of children aged 4-7 years was tested. Participants (N = 156) were randomly...
Mindfulness
2018
Han Suelmann, André Brouwers, Evelien Snippe
Despite the apparent benefits of being mindful, people are often not very mindful. There seem to be forces that drive people toward as well as away from mindfulness. These forces are conceptualised in terms of competition for scarce attentional resources. To explore these forces and to test this framework, an experience sampling study was performed among people with an explicit intention to be...
Frontiers in Psychology
2018
Lin Sørensen, Berge Osnes, Endre Visted et al.
Background: A state of mindfulness refers to a present-centered attentional awareness without judging. Being mindful seems to increase the ability to be flexible and adaptive in attention focus according to situational contingencies. The way mindfulness affects such attentional control is often measured with three different but interacting attentional networks of alerting (preparedness),...
Frontiers in Psychology
2018
Megan M Walsh, Kara A Arnold
In this study, we investigate the self-regulatory role of mindfulness in buffering the relationship between leaders' emotional exhaustion and self-rated leadership behavior (transformational leadership and abusive supervision). Specifically, we propose that leader mindfulness buffers the relationship between emotional exhaustion and both negative affect and impaired perspective taking, which...
Health psychology and behavioral medicine
2018
Deborah A Ellis, April Carcone, Richard Slatcher et al.
The purpose of the study was to assess the acceptability and feasibility of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a group-delivered intervention, to reduce stress and improve illness management among urban, older adolescents and young adults with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes (T1D). Ten older adolescents and young adults (9 females, 1 male) were recruited to participate in an MBSR...
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
2018
Eric L Garland, Matthew O Howard
Although opioid-treated chronic pain patients evidence blunted responsiveness to natural rewards, focusing on naturally rewarding stimuli can produce analgesia in these patients. A prior randomized controlled trial (RCT) demonstrated that a social work intervention-Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE)-enhanced natural reward processing as indicated by event-related brain potentials...
PLoS One
2018
Catherine I. Andreu, Diego Cosmelli, Heleen A. Slagter et al.
Research suggests that mindfulness-practices may aid smoking cessation. Yet, the neural mechanisms underlying the effects of mindfulness-practices on smoking are unclear. Response inhibition is a main deficit in addiction, is associated with relapse, and could therefore be a candidate target for mindfulness-based practices. The current study hence investigated the effects of a brief...
Mindfulness
2018
Way K W Lau, Mei-Kei Leung, Yun Kwok Wing et al.
The mechanisms of mindfulness-improved sleep quality are not extensively studied. Recently, attention monitoring/awareness and acceptance in mindfulness have been proposed to be the underlying mechanisms that tackle distress and related disorders. The current study tested if acceptance moderated the relationship of awareness with psychological distress and sleep quality, and verified that...