Scrutinizing the Components of Mindfulness: Insights from Current, Past, and Non-meditators

Autor: Pang, Dandan, Ruch, Willibald
Přispěvatelé: University of Zurich, Pang, Dandan
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
050103 clinical psychology
Health (social science)
Future studies
Mindfulness
Social Psychology
media_common.quotation_subject
medicine.medical_treatment
300 Social sciences
sociology & anthropology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Sample (statistics)
Factor structure
3202 Applied Psychology
050105 experimental psychology
Health(social science)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Meditation
Applied Psychology
media_common
3207 Social Psychology
3204 Developmental and Educational Psychology
Social Psychology DoktoratPsych Erstautor
10093 Institute of Psychology
3205 Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
05 social sciences
Facet (psychology)
Cognitive therapy
3306 Health (social science)
150 Psychology
Psychology
Construct (philosophy)
Cognitive psychology
Zdroj: Pang, Dandan; Ruch, Willibald (2019). Scrutinizing the Components of Mindfulness: Insights from Current, Past, and Non-meditators. Mindfulness, 10(3), pp. 492-505. Springer 10.1007/s12671-018-0990-4
ISSN: 1868-8535
1868-8527
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-018-0990-4
Popis: The factor structure of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) seems to vary across samples depending on whether meditators or non-meditators are studied and whether a sample is analyzed before or after mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. The current study illustrates the inconsistencies typically found (e.g., whether all five facets can load on an overall construct of mindfulness), as well as provides and tests alternative explanations in three samples with different levels of meditation experience (i.e., current meditators, past meditators, and non-meditators). Altogether, 2247 German-speaking volunteers completed the FFMQ and reported their meditation experiences online. Results showed that the scaling of three facets of the FFMQ (i.e., observing, describing, and non-judging) were constrained in all samples. The past meditators revealed unique features in terms of their mindfulness level: (1) stopping practicing meditation reduced their levels of mindfulness in facets of awareness, non-judging, and non-reacting, yet observing and describing seemed to remain and (2) those past meditators with intensive trainings scored higher in all five facets than those past meditators who practiced less. The CFA yielded a good fit in all three samples. A hierarchical factor analysis showed how the factors unfolded from level to level and demonstrated that in particular the observing facet loaded on the overall construct of mindfulness differently across the three samples. The empirical results confirmed the alternative interpretations on why the discrepancy regarding the loading of the “observing” facet on an overall mindfulness construct occurs, but future studies might think of investigating each hypothesis specifically.
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