Mindfulness and Forgiveness Buffer Distress: Associations With Interpersonal Transgression Blameworthiness

Jarrett, Nicole L.; Pickett, Scott M.; Amsbaugh, Hayley M.; Afzal, Beenish

doi:10.1002/cvj.12059

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“…Discussing and forgiving relational hurt leads to increased intimacy and relationship satisfaction (Fincham & Beach, 2003). Mindfulness is associated with interpersonal forgiveness (e.g., Jarrett, Pickett, Amsbaugh, & Afzal, 2017; Karremans et al, 2020), and appears to be a skill that may enable couples to effectively engage in these discussions of relational hurt.…”

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The relation between mindfulness and perceived partner responsiveness during couples’ vulnerability discussions.

Khalifian¹,

Barry²

2021

Journal of Family Psychology

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Intimacy develops when a person discloses vulnerability and perceives their partner's response as supportive. However, a published experimental study found that individuals report their partners as less supportive in response to disclosures of specific examples of vulnerability that involve the partner (i.e., partner-inclusive) compared to disclosures that do not involve the partner (i.e., partner-exclusive). This research is an extension of findings from that experimental study and examines how individual differences in mindfulness and disclosure specificity are associated with perceived partner responsiveness during disclosures of partner-inclusive and partner-exclusive vulnerabilities. Cohabiting couples (N ϭ 82) were randomly assigned to engage in either partner-inclusive or -exclusive vulnerability discussions. Each couple engaged in 2 video-recorded discussions so that each person took a turn as discloser and responder. Trained coders rated disclosures for specificity (i.e., whether or not the discloser used specific examples). Following each discussion, couples rated perceived partner responsiveness. Hypotheses were tested with multilevel modeling. Findings suggest that individuals perceived their partners' reactions as less responsive when they disclosed specific, partner-inclusive vulnerabilities and their partners had lower mindfulness. When partners had higher mindfulness, individuals perceived their partners as similarly responsive when disclosing partner-inclusive and -exclusive vulnerabilities, regardless of specificity. Mindfulness may enable couples to remain engaged during partner-inclusive vulnerability discussions leading to higher perceived responsiveness-an integral component of intimacy development.

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The relation between mindfulness and perceived partner responsiveness during couples’ vulnerability discussions.

Khalifian¹,

Barry²

2021

Journal of Family Psychology

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“…This finding suggested that IF played a protective role in the relationship between CV and PBJW. Many previous studies have supported the buffer role of IF against adverse experiences (Hirsch et al, 2012;Jarrett et al, 2017;Quintana-Orts & Rey, 2018). A possible explanation is that the victim's expression of forgiveness toward the cyberbullying perpetrators seemed to empower the victim and increase their perceived status, and in turn, this sense of status/ power alleviated the victim's feelings of injustice (Wenzel & Okimoto, 2012).…”

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Using Shattered Assumption Theory to Understand How Cyberbullying Victimization is Linked With Perceived Control Among Chinese College Students

Wang

Zhou

Lei

2021

J Interpers Violence

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Perceived control (PC) is considered as one of the most basic psychological needs of human beings, and it is also an important index to measure individual mental health. Previous studies have shown that negative life experience is an important risk factor for predicting PC. With the prevalence of cyberbullying among college students, this study explored how cybervictimization (CV) was related to the PC, mediated through the personal belief in a just world (PBJW). Besides, this study examined the moderating role of interpersonal forgiveness (IF) in the direct relationship between CV and PC and the indirect connection through PBJW. It was expected that CV would negatively predict the PC, and the PBJW would mediate this relationship. The direct and indirect effects were stronger in individuals with low IF than those with high IF. In this study, 837 Chinese college students were invited to conduct an online survey using a convenient sampling method. Participants were asked to complete the measurement of CV, PBJW, IF, and PC. After controlling gender and age, the results revealed that CV could directly and negatively predict college students’ PC and indirectly predict the PC through the mediation of PBJW. Additionally, IF moderated the effect of CV on PBJW and PC. Unlike what we expected, the effect of CV on PBJW was stronger for low IF individuals than those with high IF, while the effect of CV on PC was stronger for high IF individuals than those with low IF. The unexpected orientation and other results were discussed.

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“…There is substantial evidence that mindfulness-oriented clinical interventions and mindfulness-based meditation practices can improve interpersonal functioning (Abbass et al, 2014;Keng et al, 2011;Sedlmeier et al, 2012). Enhanced dispositional mindfulness resulting from mindfulness-oriented interventions is also associated with a range of beneficial VIPASSANA EFFECTS ON PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING interpersonal outcomes, including enhanced interpersonal well-being amongst students (Sawyer Cohen & Miller, 2009), increased perspective-taking and awareness of one's own needs, resulting in better quality friendships (Pratscher, Rose, Markovitz, & Bettencourt, 2017), a greater propensity for forgiveness against interpersonal transgressions (Jarrett, Pickett, Amsbaugh, & Afzal, 2017), increased perceptions of social connectedness (Kok & Singer, 2017), and reductions in interpersonal sensitivity (Kliem, Kröger, & Kosfelder, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

Vipassana Effects on Interpersonal Functioning

Ruehland

2024

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Over the last decade, psychological researchers have begun exploring the effects of Vipassana, a meditation practice based on teachings expounded in the earliest Buddhist texts, dating back more than two-and-a-half millennia (Bodhi, 2005). Courses to learn the technique are widely available, with hundreds of thousands of participants attending residential courses at Vipassana meditation centres around the world every year (Vipassana Research Institute [VRI], 2010). An emerging body of evidence indicates that Vipassana meditation is beneficial to psychological health and wellbeing (e.g., Cohen, Jensen, Stange, Neuburger & Heimberg, 2017; Krygier et al., 2013; Szekeres & Wertheim, 2015). However, at present, the effect of Vipassana on interpersonal distress, a critical marker of psychopathology, appears not to have been explored. Furthermore, several prior Vipassana studies have produced findings that were inconsistent with other well-established findings. For example, Adhikari (2012) and Krygier et al. (2013) found that attending a Vipassana course had a non-significant effect on anxiety symptoms. However, there is a substantial body of evidence suggesting that meditation can reduce a range of psychopathological symptoms, including anxiety symptoms (e.g., Cohen et al., 2017; Hofmann, Sawyer, Witt, & Oh, 2010; Keng, Smoski, & Robins, 2011; Sedlmeier et al., 2012; Tomlinson, Yousaf, Vittersø, & Jones, 2018). The current study aims to explore the immediate and longer-term effects of attending a 10-day residential Vipassana course on self-reported dispositional mindfulness, symptoms of psychological distress (depression, anxiety and stress), and interpersonal distress, in a non-clinical, community sample. Positive results would support the notion that Vipassana meditation is an effective tool for improving functioning in a number of important domains that are critical to good psychological health (Girard et al., 2017).

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Mindfulness and Forgiveness Buffer Distress: Associations With Interpersonal Transgression Blameworthiness

Cited by 6 publications

References 53 publications

The relation between mindfulness and perceived partner responsiveness during couples’ vulnerability discussions.

The relation between mindfulness and perceived partner responsiveness during couples’ vulnerability discussions.

Using Shattered Assumption Theory to Understand How Cyberbullying Victimization is Linked With Perceived Control Among Chinese College Students

Vipassana Effects on Interpersonal Functioning

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