Mindfulness and personality: More natural for some than others and how it matters.

Abstract

Knowledge about mindfulness and its impact on emotional reactivity, behaviors, and wellness has greatly increased in recent years as mindfulness practices make their way from the clinic to the workplace. Studies of the relationships between mindfulness and personality assessments commonly used in organizational consulting and coaching, however, have been few. We sought to determine what relationships exist between two personality assessments (the Hogan Personality Inventory [HPI] and Hogan Development Survey [HDS]) and two measures of mindfulness (the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire and the Mindfulness Attention and Awareness Scale). Results indicated eight scales were significantly related with one or more of the mindfulness scales across two independent samples. HDS Cautious had the strongest correlations across the mindfulness scales, followed by HPI Adjustment and Ambition, HDS Leisurely, and HDS Excitable. Given the frequent practice by consultants of using assessments to predict team effectiveness and leader performance, we discuss potential ways to integrate mindfulness-enhancing practices into the coaching of different personality profiles, particularly those profiles prone to higher emotional reactivity, distractible attention, and a lack of self-or other-awareness.

Interplay between personality traits and learning strategies: the missing link

“…This is especially true when mentors empower their students to optimize their traits for different contexts. Therefore, interventions utilized by the mentors would have a positive effect on the students despite the fact that students spend few years in medical school, as evident in many applications published in the literature (41)(42)(43). Students' behaviors in academic contexts are impacted by personality traits.…”

“…The NEO-FFI-3 provides standardized scores (T scores) based on different normative samples for the five personality domains included with the instrument. Based on the total T scores, students are categorized in each trait into the following scales: very low (<35), low (35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44), average (45)(46)(47)(48)(49)(50)(51)(52)(53)(54)(55), high (56)(57)(58)(59)(60)(61)(62)(63)(64)(65), and very high (>65). All scoring, reporting, and graphics are generated automatically, and students receive the feedback report after completing the questionnaire.…”

Mediating effect of ethical climate on the relationship of personality types and employees mindfulness

“…Table 3 explains the extent of mindfulness of the respondents. The results indicated that participants have very high levels to both individual mindfulness and organizational mindfulness (Altizer et al, 2021;Cumming, 2014;Glomb et al, 2011).…”