Toward a Cognitive View of Trait Mindfulness: Distinct Cognitive Skills Predict Its Observing and Nonreactivity Facets

Anicha, Cali L.; Ode, Scott; Moeller, Sara K.; Robinson, Michael D.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00722.x

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“…Further escalation of the emotional experience through secondary emotional reactions would be less likely in highly mindful individuals resulting in a memory that is harder to retrieve intentionally in response to emotion cue words of the kind used in the AMT. Consistent with this suggestion, Anicha, Ode, Moeller and Robinson (2012) reported that individuals who scored high in the observing (presence), but not nonreactivity (acceptance), facet of dispositional mindfulness showed greater perceptual abilities in two different perceptual tasks.…”

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Trait mindfulness and autobiographical memory specificity

Crawley

2014

Cogn Process

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Training in mindfulness skills has been shown to increase autobiographical memory specificity. The aim of this study was to examine whether there is also an association between individual differences in trait mindfulness and memory specificity using a non-clinical student sample (N = 70). Also examined were the relationships between other memory characteristics and trait mindfulness, self-reported depression and rumination. Participants wrote about 12 autobiographical memories which were recalled in response to emotion word cues in a minimal instruction version of the Autobiographical Memory Test, rated each memory for seven characteristics, and completed the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory, the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale, and the Ruminative Responses Scale. Higher rumination scores were associated with more reliving and more intense emotion during recall.Depression scores were not associated with any memory variables. Higher trait mindfulness was associated with lower memory specificity and with more intense and more positive emotion during recall. Thus, trait mindfulness is associated with memory specificity but the association is opposite to that found in mindfulness training studies. It is suggested that this difference may be due to an influence of trait mindfulness on memory encoding as well as retrieval processes and an influence on the mode of self-awareness that leads to a greater focus on momentary rather than narrative self-reference.

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“…One is the reliance on self-report to measure trait mindfulness. To date there is no consensus on a valid psychometric measure of dispositional mindfulness (Anicha et al 2012). The FMI was used in this study because it is sensitive to variations in meditation experience (Walach et al 2006).…”

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Trait mindfulness and autobiographical memory specificity

Crawley

2014

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“…However, both the describe facet and the ability to allow sensations, cognitions and emotions to come and go, without getting caught up in them (non-reactivity facet) may likely be better predictors of an individual's cognitive attributes, such as flexible cognitive control (see Anicha, Ode, Moeller, & Robinson, 2012) than variables that explain general life stress.…”

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

Kaiseler

Poolton

Backhouse

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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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“…This is a novel finding, and we suggest that it is in accordance with several theoretical formulations and with a number of previous empirical studies that have investigated mindfulness and aesthetic experience separately. Observing is widely regarded as a key feature of mindfulness (Bishop et al, 2004;Lilja, Lundh, Josefsson, & Kalkenstrőm, 2012), and experimental evidence suggests that the Observing facet of trait mindfulness appears to be related in particular to perceptual awareness (Anicha et al, 2012).…”

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“…In principle, when attention is focused on present moment experience, there should follow a greater sensitivity and receptivity to sense perceptions, that may enhance the capacity to perceptually engage with and respond more deeply to a work of art (Anicha, Ode, Moeller, & Robinson, 2012). Several influential information-processing accounts of aesthetic experience highlight the pivotal role of perceptual processing and attentional mechanisms in the generation of the aesthetic response (Chatterjee, 2011;Cupchik & Winston, 1996;Leder, Belko, Oeberst, & Augustin, 2004;Marković, 2012).…”

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The Observing Facet of Trait Mindfulness Predicts Frequency of Aesthetic Experiences Evoked by the Arts

Harrison

Clark

2016

Mindfulness

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Conflict of interest:Neil R. Harrison declares that he has no conflict of interest.Dan P.A. Clark declares that he has no conflict of interest.Trait mindfulness predicts frequency of aesthetic experiences 2 Abstract Mindfulness can foster an enhanced sensitivity to internal and external impressions, which could result in heightened subjective responses to works of art. So far though, very little is known about the connection between mindfulness and aesthetic responses to the arts, therefore the current study aimed to investigate whether there was an association between trait mindfulness and how often people report aesthetic experiences. We hypothesized that the Observing facet of mindfulness would positively predict the self-reported frequency of aesthetic experiences (aesthetic chills, feeling touched, and absorption). Participants in an online study (N = 207) completed the Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire, an Aesthetic Experiences scale in relation to the area of the arts a participant encountered most frequently in their daily life, and a measure of aesthetic expertise. Controlling for aesthetic expertise and sex, linear regression revealed that the Observing facet of mindfulness was positively associated with aesthetic experience, as predicted. Non-reactivity positively predicted aesthetic experience, while Non-judging was negatively associated with aesthetic experience. Potential explanations for the association between these three facets of trait mindfulness and aesthetic responses are discussed in relation to information-processing models of aesthetic experience. The findings provide preliminary support for the premise that levels of dispositional mindfulness are associated with the frequency of intense emotional responses to the arts, and recommendations for further research studies are outlined.Trait mindfulness predicts frequency of aesthetic experiences 3

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Toward a Cognitive View of Trait Mindfulness: Distinct Cognitive Skills Predict Its Observing and Nonreactivity Facets

Cited by 92 publications

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Trait mindfulness and autobiographical memory specificity

Trait mindfulness and autobiographical memory specificity

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

The Observing Facet of Trait Mindfulness Predicts Frequency of Aesthetic Experiences Evoked by the Arts

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