Mindfulness

Ie, Amanda; Ngnoumen, Christelle; Langer, Ellen J.

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“…Over 150 articles and many books have been published on Ellen Langer's work showcasing the variety of situations which can benefit from mindfulness without meditation such as in education, in creativity, and in workplaces. Many of her studies highlight what she calls the "psychology of possibility" in that a simple alteration of instruction can produce real changes in mindset, behavior, health, and performance (Ie et al, 2014). One example is the famous math performance study where Ellen Langer and colleagues gave students math problems that could be solved in several ways.…”

Section: Sociocognitive Mindfulnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self-regulation of attention may unify theories of mindfulness.

Turcotte¹,

Lakatos²,

Oddson³

2023

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice

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The study of mindfulness proceeds from a number of perspectives. Two of the best-known academic conceptualizations of mindfulness are those identified with Kabat-Zinn and Langer. These conceptions, meditative and sociocognitive, have been built from different foundations and have been argued to be quite distinct. However, it has been suggested that they may be related through a shared component of self-regulation of attention. To put this hypothesis to a test, a convenience sample of participants (n = 208) were asked to complete the Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), Langer Mindfulness Scale (LMS), and the Self-Regulation Scale (SRS), a measure of the self-regulation of attention. These three dispositional measures were shown to be correlated, suggesting that reliance on the capacity to regulate attention in pursuit of a goal is shared by these two approaches to mindfulness. On further analysis, the correlation between FFMQ and the LMS was found to be higher for those participants with the highest SRS scores. The implications of this somewhat counter-intuitive finding are discussed.

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Section: Sociocognitive Mindfulnessmentioning

confidence: 99%