The Relationship between Mindfulness and Uncontrollability of Ruminative Thinking

Raes, Filip; Williams, J. Mark G.

doi:10.1007/s12671-010-0021-6

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“…Mindful qualities of staying in the present and viewing moment by moment experiences in a non-judgmental and non-reactive manner seem likely to detract ruminative thinking. In line with this suggestion, studies have revealed that dispositional mindfulness (e.g., Raes & Williams, 2010) and mindfulness based stress reduction training (Shapiro, Brown, & Biegel, 2007) have been negatively associated with rumination. However, the role of different facets of mindfulness on ruminative thinking has yet to be determined.…”

Section: Mindfulness and Life-stress In Student-athletesmentioning

confidence: 74%

The Relationship Between Mindfulness and Life Stress in Student-Athletes: The Mediating Role of Coping Effectiveness and Decision Rumination

Kaiseler

Poolton

Backhouse

et al. 2017

The Sport Psychologist

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The role of dispositional mindfulness on stress in student-athletes and factors that mediate this relationship has yet to be examined. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between the facets of mindfulness and life stress in studentathletes and whether these relationships are mediated through coping effectiveness and decision rumination. Participants were 202 student-athletes who completed validated measures of dispositional mindfulness, student-athlete life stress, decision rumination and coping effectiveness in sport. Results indicated that the acting with awareness and nonjudging facets of mindfulness were negative predictors of life stress, whereas the observe facet was a positive predictor of life stress. Mediation analyses revealed that these relationships were mediated through coping effectiveness and decision rumination. Findings provide new insight into the role dispositional mindfulness plays on student-athlete perceptions of life stress and implications for practitioners are discussed.

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Section: Mindfulness and Life-stress In Student-athletesmentioning

confidence: 74%

The Relationship Between Mindfulness and Life Stress in Student-Athletes: The Mediating Role of Coping Effectiveness and Decision Rumination

Kaiseler

Poolton

Backhouse

et al. 2017

The Sport Psychologist

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“…Along with metacognitive insight processes, other components in mindfulness practices are also fundamental and concurrently improve emotion regulation skills: intentionality, attention, and attitude [51]. These components in combination lead the practiser to develop critical abilities, such as acceptance, awareness, openness to, and implementation of the most functional emotional regulation strategies [52].…”

Section: The Mindfulness Approach: Implicit Responses Bodily and Sementioning

confidence: 99%

Conscious, Pre-Conscious and Unconscious Mechanisms in Emotional Behaviour. Some Applications to the Mindfulness Approach with Wearable Devices

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Conscious, pre-conscious, and unconscious mechanisms are implicated in modulating affective processing in daily activities. Specifically, mental practice fostering awareness and control of affective reactions to external stimuli and stressful events (such as mindfulness and neurofeedback protocols) can be used to improve our ability to manage unconscious negative emotions. Indeed, it is possible to empower self-monitoring and regulation skills, as well as our ability to manage stress and negative emotions coming from everyday events and activities. This can be accomplished, on the one hand, by regularly practicing self-observation and by promoting bodily awareness and an awareness of automatic responses (e.g., uncontrolled affective reactions); on the other hand, by undergoing implicit training protocols that take advantage of brain responses. The present paper elucidates the contribution of both conscious and unconscious levels in emotion regulation and stress management, with a focus on their neural correlates and their role in mindfulness practice and on the potential of body-sensing devices for supporting meditation sessions, for fostering motivation to practice, and for making meditation more appealing and sustainable. We will finally present preliminary evidence on the effect of an intensive technology-mediated meditation protocol based on mindfulness practices and supported by a brain-sensing wearable device. The experimental procedure included three levels of outcome indices: psychometric measures related to perceived stress; neuropsychological and behavioural measures related to cognitive performance; and instrumental measures (resting-state and task-related electroencephalographic markers-EEG-ERPs).

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“…The dispositional trait of mindfulness, which reflects the tendency towards present-moment awareness, has been associated with positive psychological functioning, including enhanced selfregulation (Brown and Ryan, 2003;Raes and Williams, 2010). Based on the theoretical accounts introduced by Kabat-Zinn (1982), a twoconstruct model of dispositional mindfulness has been proposed, capturing individual differences in (1) attention and awareness and (2) acceptance and non-reactivity .…”

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Dispositional mindfulness is predicted by structural development of the insula during late adolescence

Friedel

Whittle

Vijayakumar

et al. 2015

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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Adolescence is a critical period of development, in which the increasing social and cognitive demands of independence need to be met by enhanced self-regulatory abilities. The cultivation of mindfulness has been associated with improved self-regulation in adult populations, and it is theorized that one neurodevelopmental mechanism that supports this capacity is the development of the prefrontal cortex. The current study examined the neurodevelopmental mechanisms associated with dispositional mindfulness in adolescence. Using a longitudinal within-persons design, 82 participants underwent structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) assessments at approximately ages 16 and 19, and also completed self-reported measurements of mindfulness at age 19. It was hypothesized that adolescents who demonstrated greater thinning of frontal cortical regions between the age of 16 and 19 would exhibit higher dispositional mindfulness levels at age 19. Results indicated that, contrary to predictions, adolescents with higher levels of mindfulness demonstrated less thinning in the left anterior insula. By contrast, higher IQ was associated with greater thinning of the right caudal middle frontal and right superior frontal regions. The involvement of insula development in mindfulness is consistent with a direct role for this structure in managing self-regulation, and in doing so concords with recent models of self-referential interoceptive awareness.

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The Relationship between Mindfulness and Uncontrollability of Ruminative Thinking

Cited by 140 publications

References 17 publications

The Relationship Between Mindfulness and Life Stress in Student-Athletes: The Mediating Role of Coping Effectiveness and Decision Rumination

The Relationship Between Mindfulness and Life Stress in Student-Athletes: The Mediating Role of Coping Effectiveness and Decision Rumination

Conscious, Pre-Conscious and Unconscious Mechanisms in Emotional Behaviour. Some Applications to the Mindfulness Approach with Wearable Devices

Dispositional mindfulness is predicted by structural development of the insula during late adolescence

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