Dispositional mindfulness in daily life: A naturalistic observation study.

Autor: Kaplan DM; Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America., Raison CL; School of Human Ecology and School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America., Milek A; Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America., Tackman AM; Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America., Pace TWW; College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America., Mehl MR; Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2018 Nov 28; Vol. 13 (11), pp. e0206029. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Nov 28 (Print Publication: 2018).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206029
Abstrakt: Mindfulness has seen an extraordinary rise as a scientific construct, yet surprisingly little is known about how it manifests behaviorally in daily life. The present study identifies assumptions regarding how mindfulness relates to behavior and contrasts them against actual behavioral manifestations of trait mindfulness in daily life. Study 1 (N = 427) shows that mindfulness is assumed to relate to emotional positivity, quality social interactions, prosocial orientation and attention to sensory perceptions. In Study 2, 185 participants completed a gold-standard, self-reported mindfulness measure (the FFMQ) and underwent naturalistic observation sampling to assess their daily behaviors. Trait mindfulness was robustly related to a heightened perceptual focus in conversations. However, it was not related to behavioral and speech markers of emotional positivity, quality social interactions, or prosocial orientation. These findings suggest that the subjective and self-reported experience of being mindful in daily life is expressed primarily through sharpened perceptual attention, rather than through other behavioral or social differences. This highlights the need for ecological models of how dispositional mindfulness "works" in daily life, and raises questions about the measurement of mindfulness.
Competing Interests: Dr. Raison serves in a consultant role as interim director of research on spiritual health for Emory Healthcare, Atlanta, GA. The other authors declared that they had no conflicts of interest with respect to their authorship or the publication of this article. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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