Mindfulness Profiles Among Chinese University Students: Exploring Differences in Phenomenon, Cognition, and Performance of Mind Wandering

Hou, Yi; Zhang, Yaoyao; Liu, Yong; Yuan, Hong; Xu, Lei

doi:10.1007/s12671-023-02080-0

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“…Since Lilja et al’s (2013) and Pearson et al’s (2015) initial works on person-centered heterogeneity in mindfulness, a number of other research teams have examined the profiles of mindfulness with different samples of varying age ranges, from adolescents (e.g., Calvete et al, 2020 ) to older adults (e.g., Zhu et al, 2020 ). Many of the person-centered papers have focused on college students or adults and derived four mindfulness facet profiles ( Pearson et al, 2015 ; Bravo et al, 2016 , 2018 ; Kimmes et al, 2017 ; Lam et al, 2018 ; Ford et al, 2020 ; Grund et al, 2021 ; De Souza Marcovski and Miller, 2023 ; Hémond-Dussault et al, 2023 ; Hou et al, 2023 ). In these four-profile findings, high mindfulness and low mindfulness profiles are homogeneous in nature; the individuals in these profiles score relatively high or relatively low on all facets, respectively.…”

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Not all mindfulness is equal: certain facets of mindfulness have important implications for well-being and mental health across the lifespan

Johnson,

Smith,

Kil

2024

Front. Psychol.

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The connections between the five facets of mindfulness, well-being, and mental health across the lifespan have traditionally been investigated using variable-centered approaches. Less research has investigated these relationships from a person-centered, profile-based approach. In this work, we aimed to identify the profiles of mindfulness in a Canadian lifespan sample (14 to 90 years of age) and investigate how these profiles compared on age, well-being, and mental health. An age- and gender-balanced sample of 1,600 participants completed a questionnaire that measured the five facets of mindfulness; life satisfaction; existential well-being; and anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms. A latent profile analysis was conducted. Five profiles based on the five-facet model of mindfulness were identified: high mindfulness, moderate mindfulness, low mindfulness, nonjudgmentally aware, and judgmentally observing. The 3-step approach to profile comparisons was used to assess age, mental health, and well-being differences across the profiles. Those in the high mindfulness and nonjudgmentally aware profiles were generally older, while the judgmentally observing profile contained younger individuals. Those in the high mindfulness and nonjudgmentally aware profiles reported the greatest mental health and well-being. Conversely, those in the low mindfulness and judgmentally observing profiles had worse mental health than the other profiles. The moderate mindfulness profile was situated between these profile groups on age, mental health, and well-being outcomes. This pattern of results has implications for mindfulness-based intervention research and practice to better account for heterogeneity in mindfulness and better support well-being across the lifespan.

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