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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"dispositional mindfulness"”.
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Dispositional Mindfulness and Perceived Stress
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been shown to reduce stress. Additionally, those with higher dispositional levels of mindfulness tend to exhibit lower levels of stress. While there is a clear relationship between the cultivation of mindfulness and reduced stress levels, the particular …
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Does dispositional mindfulness predict perceived stress in daily life?
… against perceived stress. According to the mindfulness-to-meaning theory, open attention and awareness, a component of mindfulness, allows a person to dis-identify from a difficult situation and flexibly reappraise the event, interrupting default schemas to interpret the potential stressor …
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Withstanding Cruel Teasing: Does Dispositional Mindfulness Fortify Target Immunity?
… this thesis I examined the extent to which trait mindfulness might mitigate the negative psychological effects associated with cruel teasing. Correlation results confirmed cruel teasing history related significantly and directly, and mindfulness inversely, to poorer psychological health. Moderated …
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Meaning Making and Dispositional Mindfulness among Women with Breast Cancer
… the theoretical links between meaning making and dispositional mindfulness for women with breast cancer to develop a guiding framework for future intervention research. The research questions were: 1) Does dispositional mindfulness moderate the relationship between meaning making and meaning in …
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CHRONIC PAIN ACCEPTANCE: OPTIMISM MEDIATES THE RELATION BETWEEN DISPOSITIONAL MINDFULNESS AND PAIN ACCEPTANCE
… We expected that five individual components of dispositional mindfulness would be positively associated with pain willingness (Hypothesis 1) and activity engagement (Hypothesis 2). A mediational hypothesis was tested, whereby dispositional mindfulness would be positively associated with optimism …
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Dispositional Mindfulness as a Moderator of Electrocortical and Behavioral Responses to Affective Social Stimuli
Numerous studies have linked dispositional mindfulness to enhanced emotion regulation. The present research examined dispositional mindfulness as a predictor of emotion regulation in social affective contexts. Participants completed passive viewing and Emotional Go/No-Go tasks involving social …
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The roles of dispositional flow, dispositional mindfulness, and self-compassion in the Objectification Theory Framework
… purpose of the present study was to explore mindfulness and selfcompassion as potential moderators within the objectification theory framework. These strength-based practices have received recent attention for treatment of anxiety, depression, and other mental health concerns. We studied …
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Parent Dispositional Mindfulness and its Links to Adolescent Disclosure, Mother-Adolescent Conflict, and Adolescent Hostile Attribution Bias
Mindfulness, defined as the nonjudgmental awareness of and attention towards present experience, has become a popular subject of research in recent years. Higher mindfulness levels have been linked to a number of positive correlates, including lower stress and effective coping skills (e.g. …
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The mediating effect of dispositional mindfulness upon the relationship between right-wing authoritarianism/social dominance orientation and anti-Black prejudice
… of these studies have utilized the concept of Dispositional Mindfulness (DM), or one’s propensity to draw attention to the here and now. Studies investigating the link between DM and prejudice have yielded mixed results, with some studies suggesting that mindfulness is directly connected to …
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A pilot study on the effects of brief-ACT on college student drinking, correlates of drinking, and cognitive fusion.
… ACT which has yet to be studied empirically, and dispositional mindfulness would significantly reduce after the intervention. The study also explored associations between outcome variables (drinking variables and cognitive fusion) and other process variables (e.g., cognitive fusion, dispositional …
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Neural Correlates of Adolescent Mindfulness, Working Memory, and Internalizing Symptoms
… behavioural and neural associations between dispositional mindfulness, working memory, and internalizing symptoms in adolescents. One hundred and thirty-one adolescents, aged 11-18 (M = 13.76, SD = 1.65), who had a parent with a history of mood or anxiety disorders completed measures of …
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Outcome evaluation of an in-patient psychotherapy program: mindfulness, difficulty with emotion regulation, and mood and anxiety symptoms
… difficulty with emotion regulation, and dispositional mindfulness in a clinical population with diverse psychiatric morbidity. Participants were 53 adults (74.5% female, mean age = 35 years) who participated in a 4-week in-patient psychotherapy program offering a variety of interventions, …
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Self-initiated coping strategies of adults during COVID-19, and their association with psychosocial outcomes
… study aimed to investigate the practices of mindfulness and physical exercise as coping strategies adopted by adults during the Covid-19 pandemic and their associations with resilience and post-traumatic growth (PTG). A quantitative online survey composed of several questionnaires and …
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Assessing the impact of mindfulness and life stress on maternal well-being
Dispositional mindfulness has been shown to protect against affective symptoms in the general population. However, very little is known about whether and how these benefits may extend to a particularly high-risk period for affective distress—the postpartum. In this study, we tested within-person …
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The Mindful Path to Valued Living: Understanding the Associations Between Mindfulness and Valued Living
… sought to examine the associations between mindfulness--as a dispositional trait and as developed through training--and valued living. In Study 1 dispositional mindfulness was strongly related to three aspects of valued living: the general tendency for people to understand their values and …
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The Impact Of Personality, Mindfulness, And Symptoms On Response To Brief Meditation
… settings, based on consistent findings that mindfulness-based interventions have a beneficial effect on psychological and physical functioning (Baer, 2003; Grossman, et al., 2004). However, the factors that predict the extent to which one may enter into and benefit from an inducted mindful …
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The relationship between mindfulness, emotion regulation, habitual thinking and eating behaviours
Evidence regarding the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) for health-related eating behaviours is emerging. However, the underlying mechanisms are unclear. This thesis presents findings from a series of studies examining the role of two potential mechanisms; extending research …
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The Role of Mindfulness, Attachment, and Stress in Diverse Populations During Pregnancy
… mitigate such impact. Attachment security and dispositional mindfulness have been found to predict lower stress levels in certain contexts. Additionally, mindfulness training has proven to be an effective stress reduction intervention in pregnant populations. This study aimed primarily to …
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Mindfulness and working memory capacity: two comprehensive meta-analyses examining working memory as a mechanism of mindfulness
Mindfulness has been shown to be beneficial for a wide range of psychological outcomes, yet the mechanisms through which mindfulness exerts its salutary effects are unclear. One proposed mechanism explaining how mindfulness works is working memory capacity (WMC). The aim of this project was to …
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Giving a Shit: The Intersection of Trait Mindfulness and Social Justice Orientations in K12 Educators (A Mixed Methods Study)
… examines the relationship between trait mindfulness and social justice orientations among K12 educators using a convergent mixed-methods design. As mindfulness becomes increasingly embedded in schools serving strategically undervalued student populations, the study investigates how …
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