The effects of MBCT on the function of attentional networks

Zhu, Fuguo; Wang, Wenqi; Chen, Chuxuan; Zhong, Mingtian; Ma, Ning

doi:10.1007/s12144-021-02018-6

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“…According to Chiesa and Serretti (2011), different kinds of attention develop at different stages of MCBT, firstly concentrative attention, which emphasises self‐focusing, and then receptive attention, which means attending to the entire experience with an open mind. As our participants were initially meditation‐naïve, the 8‐week MCBT is too short to cultivate receptive attention and only makes them more concentrated on self‐feelings while ignoring extraneous stimuli (Zhu et al, 2021). Correspondingly, Hafenbrack and Vohs (2018) found that mindfulness reduced individuals' motivation to engage in unpleasant, meaningless tasks, similar to our research's low‐cost situations.…”

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“…Finally, given that the effects of mindfulness training are sensitive to the number of training hours (Jha et al, 2007; Zhu et al, 2021), an 8‐week MBCT may not be efficient enough to induce a stable change in prosocial orientation and empathy; thus, a meaningful direction for future work should be diving more deeply into the relationship between the length of mindfulness training and the change in altruistic behaviour.…”

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Mindfulness training selectively reduces altruistic behaviour in low‐cost situations

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T here have been rich debates about whether and how mindfulness alters prosocial behaviour. Nevertheless, few empirical studies have touched on how mindfulness training (MT) influences altruistic behaviour under highand low-cost situations in a real-life scenario. The present study aimed to examine the effect of mindfulness training on altruistic willingness at different cost levels. A total of 41 females participated in our study and were randomly assigned to the MT and control groups. They completed the empathy-altruism task and Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) before and after an 8-week experimental intervention, during which the MT group attended the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) programme, while the control group remained as usual. The MT group presented a significant increase in overall FFMQ scores after the 8 weeks of MBCT. However, their willingness to help declined in the low-cost situation at post-test. Further analysis revealed a positive correlation between the increase in the scores of the observing facet and willingness to help in the high-cost situation in the MT group. The changes in describing facet were a negative predictor of the change in empathy in the low-cost situation. Taken together, 8-week MBCT enhanced the level of mindfulness but reduced people's willingness to help in the low-cost situation.

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