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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"trait mindfulness"”.
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Neural correlates of trait mindfulness
… In this thesis, I focus on the brain bases of trait mindfulness, measured using self-report. Mindful individuals pay attention to the present moment and bring an attitude of acceptance and non-judgement to their thoughts and feelings. Despite the well-established importance of trait mindfulness …
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Trait mindfulness as a predictive factor for intimate partner violence perpetration among young adults
… The present study sought to investigate whether trait mindfulness is associated with IPV, as well as the mechanisms by which mindfulness might predict IPV. Utilizing longitudinal data collected from 247 undergraduate students, the study tested a hurdle model of IPV occurrence and frequency at …
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Knowledge, Trait Mindfulness and Perceived Discrimination as it Relates to Coping Self-Efficacy in African American Women
… between preconception care knowledge, trait mindfulness, perceived discrimination, and coping self-efficacy. It addressed the lack of research into the effects of pregnancy-related distress on maternal mortality in African American women. There were 117 participants ages 18 -30 whose …
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Examining Trait Mindfulness as a Moderator of the Mediating Relationship Between Social Anxiety, Coping Motives, and Substance-Related Consequences
… Furthermore, this study examined whether or not trait mindfulness exhibited a moderating effect on both of these mediation relationships which have been previously observed in the literature. The study consisted of students recruited through the psychology research participant pool at a mid-sized …
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Giving a Shit: The Intersection of Trait Mindfulness and Social Justice Orientations in K12 Educators (A Mixed Methods Study)
… dissertation 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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Navigating the Complex Interactions between Preinjury Characteristics and Postinjury Outcomes Following Mild Head Injury: Does Trait Mindfulness Play a Role?
… literature, the current study sought to examine trait mindfulness as it relates to cognitive functioning after MHI, as well as explore the possible mechanisms underlying the potential benefits of trait mindfulness in this population. In a quasi-experimental, cross-sectional design, levels of …
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Emotion and the Tripartite Emotion-functioning Capacities in Debiasing Sunk-cost Fallacy: A Trait-level Review
… capacities in debiasing sunk-cost fallacy at trait-level. An online survey was used to study 378 US adults and found that dispositional positive and negative affectivity, trait-mindfulness, trait-EI and reappraisal were associated with debiasing sunk-cost fallacy. Among these factors, …
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Examining the Effects of Mindfulness on the Relationships between Citizenship Pressure, Job Stress, and Turnover Intentions within Healthcare: A Moderated Mediation Model
… study also examined whether employees’ level of trait mindfulness (tendency to focus on experiences without judgment) moderates the identified mediation. Findings from a first- and second-stage moderated mediation analysis suggested that trait mindfulness does not buffer the negative outcomes …
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Mindfulness: A Personal Resource in Organizational Change
… by previous research concerning the benefits of mindfulness, the current dissertation seeks to understand the benefits of trait mindfulness as a personal resource for employee well-being, motivation, and retention during organizational change. In the initial pilot study, organizational change …
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Mindfulness meditation training and naturalistic prospective memory performance
Although mindfulness research has become a trending topic in cognitive science, there is a gap in the literature that fails to explore the relationship between mindfulness and prospective memory (i.e., the ability to remember to execute a future intention). To explore this relationship, students in …
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Maternal health behaviours: the development and feasibility evaluation of a mindfulness-based behaviour change intervention for pregnant women
… The overarching aim was to investigate whether mindfulness training might have any potential as the basis of a maternal behaviour change intervention. Method: The project employed mixed methods. The intervention development was guided by the Behaviour Change Wheel handbook. A cross-section …
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The Effect of Varying Levels of Depressive Symptoms on Mindfulness Acquisition: An Exploratory Study
… and clinical theory increasingly suggest that mindfulness may be an effective clinical intervention for a myriad of mental illnesses. However, there is debate in the field as to whether or not mindfulness-based programs may be beneficial for treatment of active depression. Those cautioning …
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Should depressed people focus on their low mood? Adaptive and maladaptive processing modes in unipolar depression
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is hypothesised to reduce the risk of depressive relapse by teaching participants to adopt a mindful rather than a ruminative mode of information processing. This study aimed to examine the effects of state and trait ruminative and mindful modes of …
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Mindfulness And Its Impact On Leader-Employee Relations In Higher Education Social Work Departments
… fixed, mixed-methods study explores how mindfulness practice by leaders in higher education social work programs influences the leader-employee relationship among a sample of higher education social work department leaders and their faculty. This study was developed out of the …
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Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Induction on Death-Related Anxiety
… to buffer effects of mortality salience. Mindfulness refers to a conscious awareness and acceptance of moment-to-moment experiences. By allowing individuals to take a regulated view of difficult situations, mindfulness may attenuate the negative effects of mortality salience. The present …
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Executive function and emotion regulation as potential mechanisms of change in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
… framework has supported the development of mindfulness-based interventions, which emphasize the cultivation of regular mindfulness meditation practice – a form of paying attention to one’s experience and adapted from Buddhist traditions – as a focus of treatment. Such interventions have …
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Mindfulness and Mentoring : Focusing Attention for Effective and Satisfying Mentoring Relationships
… purpose of the current study was to determine if mindfulness predicted successful mentoring relationships. More specifically, this study examined whether trait mindfulness predicted effective mentoring, satisfying mentoring, receipt of mentoring functions, and dysfunctional mentoring experiences …
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Examining the Relationships between Mindfulness, Anxiety, and the Startle Response
… 2015; Tramonti et al., 2016). The practice of mindfulness has been shown to decrease anxiety (Zeidan, Martucci, Kraft, McHaffie, & Coghill, 2014). Anxiety has been frequently measured via the startle response, an automatic reflex that serves defensive functions (Benke, Blumenthal, Modeß, Hamm, …
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Preventing guilt by association: Mindfulness and susceptibility to evaluative conditioning
… formation, although not using an EC paradigm, is mindfulness. Further, mindfulness is proposed to alter dimensions of elaboration that may underlie EC, particularly conditioning of negative attitudes. Therefore, three studies were conducted to examine whether mindfulness is linked to differential …
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Assessing mindfulness as a moderator between trait worry and working memory capacity performance in undergraduates
Mindfulness and worry have some antithetical qualities, yet mixed or non-significant findings suggest that practicing mindfulness alone will not disrupt worry. Working memory capacity (WMC) has been implicated in the relationship between worry and mindfulness, with some research showing that the …
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