Given the broad impact of mindfulness on mental health and well-being, achieving a full understanding of the nature and origins of dispositional mindfulness is a top priority in research. With a sample of 291 individuals, we investigated whether 3 central dispositional factors (i.e., executive control, impulsivity, and neuroticism) predicted dispositional mindfulness at its facets level, after controlling for confounding demographic variables. Executive control was assessed with an experimental task, whereas the other dispositional factors, including mindfulness, were evaluated using questionnaires. Results of path analyses indicated that executive control positively predicted nonreactivity, whereas impulsivity negatively predicted acting with awareness and nonreactivity. Neuroticism was negatively related to a broader spectrum of mindfulness facets. Our findings differentiate the role of 3 central dispositional factors in relation to dispositional mindfulness and further highlight the importance of executive control, impulsivity, and neuroticism in individuals’ tendency to inhibit their oversensitive reactions.

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During reading, participants generally move their eyes rightward on the line. A number of eye movements, called regressions, are made leftward, to words that have already been fixated. In the present study, we investigated the role of verbal memory during regressions. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to read sentences for comprehension. After reading, they were asked to make a regression to a target word presented auditorily. The results revealed that their regressions were guided by memory, as they differed from those of a control group who did not read the sentences. The role of verbal memory during regressions was then investigated by combining the reading task with articulatory suppression (Exps. 2 and 3). The results showed that articulatory suppression affected the size and the accuracy of the initial regression but had a minimal effect on corrective saccades. This suggests that verbal memory plays an important role in determining the location of the initial saccade during regressions.

During reading, a number of eye movements are made backward, on words that have already been read. Recent evidence suggests that such eye movements, called regressions, are guided by memory. Several studies point to the role of spatial memory, but evidence for the role of verbal memory is more limited. In the present study, we examined the factors that modulate the role of verbal memory in regressions. Participants were required to make regressions on target words located in sentences displayed on one or two lines. Verbal interference was shown to affect regressions, but only when participants executed a regression on a word located in the first part of the sentence, irrespective of the number of lines on which the sentence was displayed. Experiments 2 and 3 showed that the effect of verbal interference on words located in the first part of the sentence disappeared when participants initiated the regression from the middle of the sentence. Our results suggest that verbal memory is recruited to guide regressions, but only for words read a longer time ago.