Mindfulness and addictive behaviors

Effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and intellectual-motor exercises in craving beliefs among industrial substance abusers

“…Also, through increasing the awareness of the individual about existing experiences and by returning the attention to the cognitive system, one can reduce unconscious information processing and thus lower past habitual strategies, and eventually look for new ways of treating situational symptoms and monitoring one's reactions to the environmental phenomena [15]. Therefore, in the method of the mindfulness due to its underlying mechanisms (such as increased awareness and acceptance of thoughts, emotions, and operational desires), regulating inner experiences, and adjusting improved adaptive behaviors one may mitigate craving beliefs [5]. As a technique of non-judgmental attention to inner experiences, the mindfulness allows an individual to reduce his/her fears, anxieties, and ambivalent feelings (which originate in craving beliefs) with respect to the use of substance by lowering the level of automatic responses to stressful experiences and also by raising awareness and acceptance of life events [16].…”

“…Several studies have observed that physical and psychological symptoms mitigate in drug users as a result of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and that reducing stress by meditation and mindfulness may be a major factor in relapse prevention. Therefore, mindfulness training as one of the third wave of cognitive behavioral therapies can be considered an effective method toimprove the physical and mental health in different groups of patients [5]. Studies show that about 20 to 90 percent of addicts who undergo treatment experience a relapse; besides, it has been found that the efficacy of conservative drug treatments is low unless they are supported with psychological and social interventions.…”

The Effect of Big Five Factors of Personality on Compulsive Buying: The Mediating Role of Consumer Negative Emotions

“…The current study sought to highlight compulsive buying behavior and the most important factors that lead the consumer to engage in this behavior as addictive behavior that causes many problems at the individual and society level (Spinella et al, 2013), especially by applying the research to shopping malls because they contain a huge group of products and services that contribute to consumer involvement in compulsive buying behavior. This study provides empirical evidence for the relationship between the big five factors of personality and compulsive buying with reliance on consumer negative emotions by studying the direct and indirect effects of mediating consumer negative emotions.…”