Mindful Mindlessness in Goal Pursuit

Gantman, Ana P.; Gollwitzer, Peter M.; Oettingen, Gabriele

doi:10.1002/9781118294895.ch13

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“…Other evidence for the idea that mindfulness may undermine adaptive unconscious processes comes from the literature on skilled performance which demonstrates that trying to exert conscious control over automated behaviors can be counterproductive (Beilock & Carr, 2001). As noted by Gantman et al (2014), "when behaviors have been automated, consciously monitoring the enactment of learned physical skills results in suboptimal performance as the behavior no longer requires conscious direction" (p. 250). In contrast to Dane's (2011) suggestion that mindfulness may promote task performance among employees with high task expertise by allowing them to take note of and consider their intuitions about tasks, mindfulness may interfere with the task performance of those high in task expertise by short circuiting the adaptive, automatic thoughts and ensuing behaviors that derive from well-developed intuitions.…”

Section: Balance Among Levels Of Consciousnessmentioning

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A balanced view of mindfulness at work

Choi

Gruman

Leonard

2021

Organizational Psychology Review

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Mindfulness has grown from an obscure subject to an immensely popular topic that is associated with numerous performance, health, and well-being benefits in organizations. However, this growth in popularity has generated a number of criticisms of mindfulness and a rather piecemeal approach to organizational research and practice on the subject. To advance both investigation and application, the present paper applies The Balance Framework to serve as an integrative scaffolding for considering mindfulness in organizations, helping to address some of the criticisms leveled against it. The Balance Framework specifies five forms of balance: 1) balance as tempered view, 2) balance as mid-range, 3) balance as complementarity, 4) balance as contextual sensitivity, and 5) balance among different levels of consciousness. Each form is applied to mindfulness at work with a discussion of relevant conceptual issues in addition to implications for research and practice. Plain Language Summary In order to appreciate the value of mindfulness at work researchers and practitioners might want to consider both the benefits and potential drawbacks of mindfulness. This paper presents a discussion of both the advantages and possible disadvantages of mindfulness at work organized in terms of the five dimensions of an organizing structure called The Balance Framework.

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Section: Balance Among Levels Of Consciousnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

A balanced view of mindfulness at work

Choi

Gruman

Leonard

2021

Organizational Psychology Review

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“…Also, awareness is described as attending to one's activities of the moment without being distracted by thoughts and emotions (Brown & Ryan, ). By not indulging in a desired future or dwelling on present reality, aware patients are thought to be able to recognize discrepant goals and the adjustments that are required to solve the discrepancy (Gantman, Gollwitzer, & Oettingen, ). Lastly, optimism and pessimism are defined as generalized positive and negative outcome expectancies, respectively (Scheier & Carver, ).…”

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Reducing discrepancies of personal goals in the context of cancer: A longitudinal study on the relation with well‐being, psychological characteristics, and goal progress

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Janse

Sprangers

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British J Health Psychol

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Objectives. To (1) examine whether reducing discrepancies between goal importance and goal attainability is an adaptive predictor of well-being, (2) investigate intrusion, awareness, optimism, and pessimism as determinants of reducing discrepancies between goal importance and goal attainability, and (3) explore how goal progress is involved in reducing discrepancies between goal importance and goal attainability during two major periods after a colorectal cancer diagnosis.Design. Prospective design.Methods. Newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients (n = 120) were interviewed three times: within a month, 7 months (treatment period), and 18 months (followup period) post-diagnosis. Data were analysed using multiple regressions.Results. Results showed that (1) reducing discrepancies enhances well-being, (2) optimism and pessimism are predictors of reducing discrepancies during the treatment period but not during the follow-up period, while intrusion and awareness do not predict reducing discrepancies in either period, and (3) goal progress is a predictor of reducing discrepancies during the follow-up period, but no evidence for a moderating or mediating role of goal progress in the relation between psychological characteristics and reducing discrepancies was found.Conclusions. Reducing discrepancies between goal importance and goal attainability could benefit colorectal cancer patients' well-being. Optimism, pessimism, and goal progress appear to influence cancer patients' ability to reduce discrepancies. Providing assistance in improving goal progress to those who are less optimistic and highly pessimistic may be a suitable training for cancer patients to prevent deterioration in wellbeing.

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Mindful Mindlessness in Goal Pursuit

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A balanced view of mindfulness at work

A balanced view of mindfulness at work

Reducing discrepancies of personal goals in the context of cancer: A longitudinal study on the relation with well‐being, psychological characteristics, and goal progress

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