Mindfulness & compassionPub Date : 2017-07-01Epub Date: 2017-11-03DOI: 10.1016/j.mincom.2017.06.002
Miguel Bellosta-Batalla , Vicente Alfonso-Benlliure , Josefa Pérez-Blasco
{"title":"Estudio piloto de la influencia de una intervención basada en mindfulness y autocompasión sobre la creatividad verbal y figurativa en estudiantes universitarios","authors":"Miguel Bellosta-Batalla , Vicente Alfonso-Benlliure , Josefa Pérez-Blasco","doi":"10.1016/j.mincom.2017.06.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mincom.2017.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Training in creative skills should be one of the main objectives in university education, as it promotes adaptation and effective coping strategies so that students are able to meet social, academic, and work demands. The present study analyses the effects of a mindfulness and self-compassion-based intervention on verbal and figurative creativity in a group of first-year university students. The sample consisted of 23 Teaching Degree students. The experimental group (n<!--> <!-->=<!--> <!-->14) participated in a four-week mindfulness and self-compassion-based intervention. There was no intervention for the control group (n<!--> <!-->=<!--> <!-->9). The results show a significant improvement in the experimental group in levels of mindfulness, self-compassion, and verbal and figurative creativity, especially on verbal fluency and originality and figurative fluency and elaboration. Finally, the implications of these findings are examined in relation to the effects of mindfulness and self-compassion training on the creative development and on the coping strategies to overcome university challenges.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92426,"journal":{"name":"Mindfulness & compassion","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 55-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mincom.2017.06.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84033120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mindfulness & compassionPub Date : 2017-07-01Epub Date: 2017-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.mincom.2017.08.001
Angela Asensio-Martínez , Rosa Magallón-Botaya , Javier García-Campayo
{"title":"Revisión histórica de los conceptos utilizados para definir mindfulness y compasión","authors":"Angela Asensio-Martínez , Rosa Magallón-Botaya , Javier García-Campayo","doi":"10.1016/j.mincom.2017.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mincom.2017.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There have been multiple definitions proposed for the concepts of mindfulness and compassion over the years. Mindfulness is primarily defined as a state of full awareness and acceptance of the present time, intentional and non-judgmental in thoughts, feelings and/or feelings. Compassion could be defined as the feeling that is generated by the suffering of others (self-suffering, in the case of self-compassion), that motivates the desire to help reduce that suffering. Both are complex psychological constructs involving cognitive, affective, and behavioural characteristics. This review presents the proposed definitions for both concepts throughout history.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92426,"journal":{"name":"Mindfulness & compassion","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 86-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mincom.2017.08.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88659549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mindfulness & compassionPub Date : 2017-07-01Epub Date: 2017-11-11DOI: 10.1016/j.mincom.2017.09.003
David Wang , Frederick Lopez , Margit Wiesner , Quang X. Nguyen , Catherine Horn
{"title":"An empirical investigation into the cognitive and relational dynamics of mindfulness: Adult attachment security mediates the relationship between mindfulness and naïve dialecticalism","authors":"David Wang , Frederick Lopez , Margit Wiesner , Quang X. Nguyen , Catherine Horn","doi":"10.1016/j.mincom.2017.09.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mincom.2017.09.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Both researchers on mindfulness, as well as proponents of therapy modalities that incorporate mindfulness-based skill building, typically conceptualize the stress reducing benefits of mindfulness primarily to its ability to modulate maladaptive cognitive or attentional patterns. Naïve dialecticalism (i.e., a less synthesized and integrated tolerance of apparently contradictory or ambivalent beliefs) represents an approach to cognition that is associated with greater self-criticism and inconsistency within one's global self-concept and is thus theorized to be negatively related to mindfulness. The present study investigated whether the beneficial effects of mindfulness on cognition (i.e., lower levels of naïve dialectical thinking) are in fact accounted for via the beneficial effects of mindfulness on one's relationships (i.e., enhanced perceptions of adult attachment security). Structural equation modeling demonstrated that adult attachment security in fact fully mediated the negative relationship between naïve dialectical thinking and mindfulness. These results highlight an understanding of mindfulness meditation as a practice that cultivates not only harmonious affect and cognition, but also harmonious relationships with others.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92426,"journal":{"name":"Mindfulness & compassion","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 138-148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mincom.2017.09.003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73877168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mindfulness & compassionPub Date : 2017-07-01Epub Date: 2017-11-22DOI: 10.1016/j.mincom.2017.10.001
Jenna Flowers, Paul Michael
{"title":"An examination of the reliability and factor structure of the mindfulness process questionnaire (MPQ)","authors":"Jenna Flowers, Paul Michael","doi":"10.1016/j.mincom.2017.10.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mincom.2017.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examined the factor structure and reliability of the seven item and eight item mindfulness<span> process questionnaire (MPQ). The MPQ differs from other psychological measures of mindfulness in that it quantifies the process of being mindful, rather than mindfulness as a state. Cronbach's alphas were examined across and within to determine the overall reliability of the MPQ. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was utilized to assess the factor structure of the seven item and eight item MPQ. The results indicated that two items lowered the overall reliability; item seven and item two from the eight item MPQ, and item two from the seven item MPQ. The EFA suggested a two factor structure with the seven item MPQ and a three factor structure for the eight item MPQ.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":92426,"journal":{"name":"Mindfulness & compassion","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 71-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mincom.2017.10.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81906502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mindfulness & compassionPub Date : 2017-01-01Epub Date: 2017-05-04DOI: 10.1016/j.mincom.2017.03.001
Ricardo J. Teixeira, Gabriela Ferreira, M. Graça Pereira
{"title":"Portuguese validation of the Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised and the Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale","authors":"Ricardo J. Teixeira, Gabriela Ferreira, M. Graça Pereira","doi":"10.1016/j.mincom.2017.03.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mincom.2017.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><p>The purpose of this study was the validation of two instruments: Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (CAMS-R) and the Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale (PHLMS) in a non-clinical Portuguese sample.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Participants were 168 undergraduates (123 women), aged 18–50 years old (<em>M</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->22; <em>SD</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->5.94). Participants answered the following instruments: Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (CAMS-R); Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale (PHLMS); Portuguese version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale; and Separation/Individuation Process Inventory.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The factorial analysis for the CAMS-R yielded a 9-items one factor with adequate internal consistency (.76). For PHLMS, the results showed a clear two-factor structure with exactly the same structure as the original version, and with adequate internal consistencies: awareness (.77) and acceptance (.85). The quality of mindfulness (CAMS-R) was positively correlated with awareness and acceptance (PHLMS), and negatively with self-differentiation (more problematic) and alexithymia.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Both instruments seem to present adequate psychometric properties to be used in the Portuguese population.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92426,"journal":{"name":"Mindfulness & compassion","volume":"2 1","pages":"Pages 3-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mincom.2017.03.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91629528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pasos hacia una enacción relacional. Aporte, ambigüedades y limitaciones del concepto embodied mind en Francisco Varela: un análisis metateórico","authors":"Claudio Araya-Véliz, R. Aristegui, Pablo Fossa","doi":"10.1016/J.MINCOM.2016.12.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.MINCOM.2016.12.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92426,"journal":{"name":"Mindfulness & compassion","volume":"61 1","pages":"41-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83382186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mindfulness & compassionPub Date : 2017-01-01Epub Date: 2017-02-24DOI: 10.1016/j.mincom.2016.12.001
Miguel Gasca, Javier García Campayo
{"title":"Relación entre mindfulness y sueños lúcidos: una revisión bibliográfica","authors":"Miguel Gasca, Javier García Campayo","doi":"10.1016/j.mincom.2016.12.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mincom.2016.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Lucid Dreaming, as a specific phenomenon of Conscious Sleep, is a field of growing scientific interest, and appears to be related to the practice of meditation and the development of mindfulness. The aim of this article is to carry out a review of any studies that present evidence of this relationship.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>A review was performed on scientific articles in the PubMed data base, of each one of the fields of interest. The review also included articles published in the International Journal of Dream Research, as well as the analysis of the literature references included in the articles selected.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The review included 16 articles that contained information on the neurological or psychological foundations common to the field of interest.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Although the data showed that there is a link between mindfulness and lucid dreaming, more studies are needed to help confirm this relationship.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92426,"journal":{"name":"Mindfulness & compassion","volume":"2 1","pages":"Pages 47-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mincom.2016.12.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91629533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carlos González, S. Vieira, C. Araújo, Nadiya Kazachkova, Mafalda Raposo, João Vasconcelos, T. Kay, M. Lima
{"title":"A «aceitação» em portadores assintomáticos e sintomáticos da doença de Machado-Joseph","authors":"Carlos González, S. Vieira, C. Araújo, Nadiya Kazachkova, Mafalda Raposo, João Vasconcelos, T. Kay, M. Lima","doi":"10.1016/J.MINCOM.2016.11.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.MINCOM.2016.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92426,"journal":{"name":"Mindfulness & compassion","volume":"27 1","pages":"26-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78358589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mindfulness & compassionPub Date : 2017-01-01Epub Date: 2017-02-04DOI: 10.1016/j.mincom.2016.12.003
Claudio Araya-Véliz, Roberto Arístegui, Pablo Fossa
{"title":"Pasos hacia una enacción relacional. Aporte, ambigüedades y limitaciones del concepto embodied mind en Francisco Varela: un análisis metateórico","authors":"Claudio Araya-Véliz, Roberto Arístegui, Pablo Fossa","doi":"10.1016/j.mincom.2016.12.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mincom.2016.12.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A meta-theoretical analysis is presented of the embodied mind concept as it was described by Francisco Varela. In order to do this, a description is also provided of the meaning of the concept, considering the context in which this concept appears and in particular, paying attention to the concerns and needs that Varela was trying to answer when he defended and include this concept in the theoretical discussion.</p><p>A meta-theoretical analysis was then performed, reviewing some of the ontological and epistemological principles on which the embodied mind approach is based. From this analysis, a thesis was proposed that considers the contribution, ambiguities and limitations that the concept presents, showing the need to include the social dimension (explicitly including the second person dimension) and proposing this as an alternative perspective of relational-enaction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92426,"journal":{"name":"Mindfulness & compassion","volume":"2 1","pages":"Pages 41-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mincom.2016.12.003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91629534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mindfulness & compassionPub Date : 2017-01-01Epub Date: 2017-03-18DOI: 10.1016/j.mincom.2016.12.004
Bruno Solari , Roberto Bravo , Pedro Zitko
{"title":"Estudio piloto del impacto de una intervención de mindfulness en una organización financiera en Chile","authors":"Bruno Solari , Roberto Bravo , Pedro Zitko","doi":"10.1016/j.mincom.2016.12.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mincom.2016.12.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Working conditions in modern societies have undergone many changes in recent years and a large amount of specialised literature reports that employee psychological and emotional health is becoming increasingly affected. Psychosocial risk assessments of the individual and organisational consequences have begun to be studied in Chile. The present study evaluates the impact of a mindfulness-based intervention on a group of employees in a Chilean banking institution. Five dimensions were established for the study: Mindfulness, Subjective Well-being, Affect/anxiety, Engagement, and Work Satisfaction. The statistical significance of observed differences was made using the <em>t</em>-test on the required parametric assumptions, or in their absence, using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. The differences in scores were also examined using a simple three-level linearregression model. A Bayesian approximation was additionally used with Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation procedures. The investigation found that the intervention significantly increased mindfulness levels (particularly in non-judgment and observation aspects) and also significantly lowered the negative emotions and anxiety levels of the participants. Less conclusive evidence was found for an increase in observed subjective wellbeing (one case). No significant differences were observed for positive emotions and life satisfaction, or in engagement and work satisfaction levels. Results are discussed in light of psychosocial factors, and some future guidelines are proposed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":92426,"journal":{"name":"Mindfulness & compassion","volume":"2 1","pages":"Pages 17-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mincom.2016.12.004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91629530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}