Mindfulness Meditation Leads To Increased Dispositional Mindfulness And Interoceptive Awareness Linked To A Reduced Dissociative Tendency

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Fabio D’Antoni ◽  
Susanna Feruglio ◽  
Alessio Matiz ◽  
Damiano Cantone ◽  
Cristiano Crescentini
Keyword(s):  
Mindfulness Meditation ◽  
Interoceptive Awareness ◽  
Dispositional Mindfulness

Effects of Mindfulness Training on School Teachers’ Self-Reported Personality Traits As Well As Stress and Burnout Levels

2020 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Fabbro ◽  
Franco Fabbro ◽  
Viviana Capurso ◽  
Fabio D’Antoni ◽  
Cristiano Crescentini
Keyword(s):  
Mindfulness Meditation ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Training Group ◽  
Mindfulness Training ◽  
Waiting List ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire ◽  
Dispositional Mindfulness ◽  
School Teachers

Among a sample of only female school teachers, we compared a mindfulness meditation (MM) training group ( n = 19) with a waiting-list control group ( n = 20) on several participant-completed questionnaires: the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, the Big Five Personality Inventory, the Teacher Stress Inventory, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. With these measures, we assessed the participants’ dispositional mindfulness, personality styles, and their stress and burnout. Following mindfulness training, teachers in the MM group showed higher trait mindfulness and conscientiousness and lower neuroticism and stress and burnout levels than teachers in the waiting-list control group. These results support the beneficial role of MM in individuals’ effective management of stressful conditions in the workplace.

scholarly journals A Six-Session Mindfulness-Based Training to Support Weight Management After Bariatric Surgery in Clients of Hispanic Origin

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 1231-1231
Author(s):  
Motta Preciosa Martinez ◽  
Valerie George ◽  
Adriana Campa ◽  
Agustin Castellanos
Keyword(s):  
Bariatric Surgery ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Mindfulness Meditation ◽  
Mindfulness Training ◽  
Intuitive Eating ◽  
Dispositional Mindfulness ◽  
Hispanic Origin ◽  
Bariatric Patients ◽  
Post Bariatric Surgery ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Objectives Objective: To understand more about the impact of mindfulness training on perceived stress levels, dispositional mindfulness, intuitive eating, and psychological flexibility.in bariatric patients of Hispanic origin, 12–36 months post-bariatric surgery. Background: Mindfulness meditation has been proposed as an approach to reduce stress and increase awareness of physical sensations. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a six-session mindfulness-based training on dispositional mindfulness, perceived stress levels, intuitive eating, and psychological flexibility in bariatric patients of Hispanic origin 12–36 months post surgery. Methods The mindfulness group training was based on The Mindfulness Meditation/Acceptance Commitment Approach (MMACT) and focused on the following topics: mind body connection, stress management, intuitive eating, self-compassion, and acceptance & commitment. Participants were recruited from flyers posted in a private dietitian's practice and snowball sampling. Results For the first group, sixty potential participants were screened and seven (12%, 3 males and 4 females, mean age 50.6 ± 6, mean BMI 34.7 ± 6) agreed to participate. The mean scores at baseline, six, and ten weeks were: Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (80.1 ± 8, 84 ± 11, 83 ± 14), Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (18 ± 8, 17 ± 10, 17 ± 11), Perceived Stress Questionnaire (0.4 ± 0.2, 0.4 ± 0.2, 0.3 ± 0.2), and Intuitive Eating Scale-2 (2.7 ± 0.3, 2.9 ± 0.4, 3.1 ± 0.5), this last one with significant difference (P < 0.01) between baseline and week ten. Conclusions This research provides preliminary data on how mindfulness training may affect factors that influence weight stability post bariatric surgery in clients of Hispanic origin. Funding Sources None.

scholarly journals Erratum to: Dispositional Mindfulness, Meditation, and Conditional Goal Setting

Mindfulness ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-142
Author(s):  
Catherine Crane ◽  
Danka Jandric ◽  
Thorsten Barnhofer ◽  
J. Mark G. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Mindfulness Meditation ◽  
Dispositional Mindfulness

scholarly journals Dispositional Mindfulness, Meditation, and Conditional Goal Setting

Mindfulness ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 204-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Crane ◽  
Danka Jandric ◽  
Thorsten Barnhofer ◽  
J. Mark G. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Mindfulness Meditation ◽  
Dispositional Mindfulness

scholarly journals Brief growth mindset and mindfulness inductions to facilitate effort after negative feedback

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamas Nagy ◽  
Kata Sik ◽  
Lilla Torok ◽  
Beáta Bőthe ◽  
Zsofia K. Takacs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Feedback ◽  
Mindfulness Meditation ◽  
Growth Mindset ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
Dispositional Mindfulness ◽  
Iq Test ◽  
Academic Settings ◽  
Stable Characteristic ◽  
Harmful Effects

Negative feedback in academic settings is often unavoidable, although it may directly interfere with the ultimate goal of education, as setbacks can diminish motivation, and may even lead to dropping out of school. Previous research suggests that certain predispositions, inductions, and interventions might mitigate the harmful effects of negative feedback. Among others, growth mindset beliefs and mindfulness meditation were proposed as the most promising candidates that may help students to retain motivation. In a pre-registered, randomized experiment, we gave a disappointing evaluation to 383 university students in a bogus laboratory IQ test situation. Half of the participants previously received a growth mindset induction referring to intelligence as a malleable characteristic, while the other half received a fixed mindset induction referring to intelligence as a stable characteristic that cannot be changed. Then participants had a brief mindfulness meditation session or a control condition. Subsequently, they could choose to complete practice tasks before the final IQ assessment. The number of completed optional tests was used as a behavioral proxy for effort. The results showed no difference in effort for the growth mindset or the mindfulness meditation groups, compared to the other conditions. However, those that reported having higher dispositional mindfulness completed more optional tasks after mindfulness meditation. We concluded that our brief mindset and mindfulness inductions may not be adequate for everyone to alleviate the demotivating effects of negative feedback, but it does not necessarily mean that mindfulness cannot help implementing a growth mindset.

The Relationship Between Interoception and Metacognition

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Meessen ◽  
Verena Mainz ◽  
Siegfried Gauggel ◽  
Eftychia Volz-Sidiropoulou ◽  
Stefan Sütterlin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Memory Performance ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Metacognitive Awareness ◽  
Interoceptive Awareness ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Heartbeat Perception ◽  
Interoceptive Accuracy ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Recently, Garfinkel and Critchley (2013) proposed to distinguish between three facets of interoception: interoceptive sensibility, interoceptive accuracy, and interoceptive awareness. This pilot study investigated how these facets interrelate to each other and whether interoceptive awareness is related to the metacognitive awareness of memory performance. A sample of 24 healthy students completed a heartbeat perception task (HPT) and a memory task. Judgments of confidence were requested for each task. Participants filled in questionnaires assessing interoceptive sensibility, depression, anxiety, and socio-demographic characteristics. The three facets of interoception were found to be uncorrelated and interoceptive awareness was not related to metacognitive awareness of memory performance. Whereas memory performance was significantly related to metamemory awareness, interoceptive accuracy (HPT) and interoceptive awareness were not correlated. Results suggest that future research on interoception should assess all facets of interoception in order to capture the multifaceted quality of the construct.

Does Dispositional Mindfulness Predict the Development of Grit?

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Buaphrao Raphiphatthana ◽  
Paul Jose ◽  
Karen Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Dispositional Mindfulness ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Self Report Data ◽  
Acting With Awareness ◽  
Mindfulness Facets

Abstract. Grit, that is, perseverance and passion for long-term goals, is a novel construct that has gained attention in recent years ( Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, & Kelly, 2007 ). To date, little research has been performed with the goal of identifying the antecedents of grit. Thus, in order to fill this gap in the literature, self-report data were collected to examine whether mindfulness, a mindset of being-in-the-present in a nonjudgmental way, plays a role in fostering grittiness. Three hundred and forty-three undergraduate students completed an online survey once in a cross-sectional study, and of these, 74 students completed the survey again 4.5 months later. Although the cross-sectional analyses identified a number of positive associations between mindfulness and grit, the longitudinal analysis revealed that the mindfulness facets of acting with awareness and non-judging were the most important positive predictors of grit 4.5 months later. This set of findings offers implications for future grit interventions.

Further Insights Into the German Version of the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA)

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Reis
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Interoceptive Awareness ◽  
Multidimensional Assessment ◽  
New Instrument ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Complex Models ◽  
Approximate Zero ◽  
Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling

Abstract. Interoception is defined as an iterative process that refers to receiving, accessing, appraising, and responding to body sensations. Recently, following an extensive process of development, Mehling and colleagues (2012) proposed a new instrument, the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA), which captures these different aspects of interoception with eight subscales. The aim of this study was to reexamine the dimensionality of the MAIA by applying maximum likelihood confirmatory factor analysis (ML-CFA), exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM), and Bayesian structural equation modeling (BSEM). ML-CFA, ESEM, and BSEM were examined in a sample of 320 German adults. ML-CFA showed a poor fit to the data. ESEM yielded a better fit and contained numerous significant cross-loadings, of which one was substantial (≥ .30). The BSEM model with approximate zero informative priors yielded an excellent fit and confirmed the substantial cross-loading found in ESEM. The study demonstrates that ESEM and BSEM are flexible techniques that can be used to improve our understanding of multidimensional constructs. In addition, BSEM can be seen as less exploratory than ESEM and it might also be used to overcome potential limitations of ESEM with regard to more complex models relative to the sample size.

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