The role of active inhibitory control in psychological well-being and mindfulness

Lee, Yi‐Chen; Chao, Hsuan-Fu

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2012.05.001

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“…The subjects completed a battery of supplementary questionnaires (Chinese versions): FFMQ ( Baer et al, 2006 ; Lee and Chao, 2012 ), a comprehensive measure of mindfulness; STAI-State ( Spielberger et al, 1970 ; Shek, 1993 ), a measure of the level of anxiety at the given moment; BIS-11 ( Patton et al, 1995 ; Huang et al, 2013 ), to quantify different kinds of impulsivity; and PSS-10 ( Cohen et al, 1994 ; Wang et al, 2011 ), to measure the stress perceived by participants before they began the experiemnt. The FFMQ questionnaire measures five facets of mindfulness; acting with awareness, non-reaction to inner experience, non-judgment of inner experiences, observing inner experiences, and describe inner experiences.…”

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Better Cognitive Performance Is Associated With the Combination of High Trait Mindfulness and Low Trait Anxiety

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There are several ways in which cognitive and neurophysiological parameters have been consistently used to explain the variability in cognitive ability between people. However, little has been done to explore how such cognitive abilities are influenced by differences in personality traits. Dispositional mindfulness and anxiety are two inversely linked traits that have been independently attributed to a range of cognitive functions. The current study investigated these two traits in combination along with measures of the attentional network, cognitive inhibition, and visual working memory (VWM) capacity. A total of 392 prospective participants were screened to select two experimental groups each of 30 healthy young adults, with one having high mindfulness and low anxiety (HMLA) and the second having low mindfulness and high anxiety (LMHA). The groups performed an attentional network task, a color Stroop task, and a change detection test of VWM capacity. Results showed that the HMLA group was more accurate than the LMHA group on the Stroop and change detection tasks. Additionally, the HMLA group was more sensitive in detecting changes and had a higher WMC than the LMHA group. This research adds to the literature that has investigated mindfulness and anxiety independently with a comprehensive investigation of the effects of these two traits in conjunction on executive function.

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Better Cognitive Performance Is Associated With the Combination of High Trait Mindfulness and Low Trait Anxiety

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“…As such, enhanced self-regulation seems to underlie PoM. A study conducted on a Chinese sample provides preliminary support for this assertion 65 . Moreover, the goal of various psychotherapeutic (e.g., cognitive-behavioural therapy) and mindfulness-based (e.g., mindfulness meditation) interventions is to improve self-regulation, especially affect regulation 66 – 68 .…”

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Peace of mind and anxiety in the waking state are related to the affective content of dreams

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2018

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Waking mental well-being is assumed to be tightly linked to sleep and the affective content of dreams. However, empirical research is scant and has mostly focused on ill-being by studying the dreams of people with psychopathology. We explored the relationship between waking well-being and dream affect by measuring not only symptoms of ill-being but also different types and components of well-being. Importantly, this is the first time peace of mind was investigated as a distinct aspect of well-being in a Western sample and in relation to dream content. Healthy participants completed a well-being questionnaire, followed by a three-week daily dream diary and ratings of dream affect. Multilevel analyses showed that peace of mind was related to positive dream affect, whereas symptoms of anxiety were related to negative dream affect. Moreover, waking measures were better related to affect expressed in dream reports rather than participants’ self-ratings of dream affect. We propose that whereas anxiety may reflect affect dysregulation in waking and dreaming, peace of mind reflects enhanced affect regulation in both states of consciousness. Therefore, dream reports may possibly serve as markers of mental health. Finally, our study shows that peace of mind complements existing conceptualizations and measures of well-being.

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“…Surprisingly, the meditation group exhibited significantly higher values in the subscale of ‘motor impulsiveness.’ Typically, ‘mindfulness’ and ‘impulsiveness’ are negatively correlated. In studies using different self-rating and behavioral assessment techniques, higher impulsivity/less self-control in individuals is related to lower scores of mindfulness ( Peters et al, 2011 ; Bowlin and Baer, 2012 ; Lee and Chao, 2012 ; Wittmann et al, 2014 ). This is conceptually not surprising since ‘impulsiveness’ can be seen as lying on one end of a conceptual continuum with ‘self-control’ and ‘mindfulness’ forming the other end ( Sauer et al, 2011 ; Wittmann et al, 2014 ).…”

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Subjective expansion of extended time-spans in experienced meditators

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Experienced meditators typically report that they experience time slowing down in meditation practice as well as in everyday life. Conceptually this phenomenon may be understood through functional states of mindfulness, i.e., by attention regulation, body awareness, emotion regulation, and enhanced memory. However, hardly any systematic empirical work exists regarding the experience of time in meditators. In the current cross-sectional study, we investigated whether 42 experienced mindfulness meditation practitioners (with on average 10 years of experience) showed differences in the experience of time as compared to 42 controls without any meditation experience matched for age, sex, and education. The perception of time was assessed with a battery of psychophysical tasks assessing the accuracy of prospective time judgments in duration discrimination, duration reproduction, and time estimation in the milliseconds to minutes range as well with several psychometric instruments related to subjective time such as the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory, the Barratt Impulsivity Scale and the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory. In addition, subjective time judgments on the current passage of time and retrospective time ranges were assessed. While subjective judgements of time were found to be significantly different between the two groups on several scales, no differences in duration estimates in the psychophysical tasks were detected. Regarding subjective time, mindfulness meditators experienced less time pressure, more time dilation, and a general slower passage of time. Moreover, they felt that the last week and the last month passed more slowly. Overall, although no intergroup differences in psychophysical tasks were detected, the reported findings demonstrate a close association between mindfulness meditation and the subjective feeling of the passage of time captured by psychometric instruments.

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The role of active inhibitory control in psychological well-being and mindfulness

Cited by 30 publications

References 24 publications

Better Cognitive Performance Is Associated With the Combination of High Trait Mindfulness and Low Trait Anxiety

Better Cognitive Performance Is Associated With the Combination of High Trait Mindfulness and Low Trait Anxiety

Peace of mind and anxiety in the waking state are related to the affective content of dreams

Subjective expansion of extended time-spans in experienced meditators

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