Why It Pays to be Mindful: Trait Mindfulness Predicts Physiological Recovery from Emotional Stress and Greater Differentiation among Negative Emotions

Fogarty, Francesca A.; Lu, Lucy M; Sollers, John J.; Krivoschekov, S. G.; Booth, Roger J.; Consedine, Nathan S.

doi:10.1007/s12671-013-0242-6

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“…This is in line with our expectations and earlier findings showing that trait mindfulness is associated with better emotion differentiating skills (Fogarty et al, 2015;Hill & Updegraff, 2012;Mandal et al, 2014). We could not find a mediating effect of mindfulness on the improvement of positive emotion differentiation.…”

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An experience sampling study examining the potential impact of a mindfulness-based intervention on emotion differentiation.

Gucht

Dejonckheere

Erbaş

et al. 2019

Emotion

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Research has shown that how well people can differentiate between different emotional states is an essential requirement for adaptive emotion regulation. People with low levels of emotion differentiation tend to be more vulnerable to develop emotional disorders. Although we know quite a lot about the correlates of emotion differentiation, research on factors or interventions which could improve emotion differentiation skills is scarce. Here, we hypothesize, and study empirically, whether a mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) may impact the differentiation of negative and positive emotions. A within-subjects pre-, post-, and follow-up design involving experience sampling was used. At each phase participants reported their current emotions and mindfulness skills up to 40 times across 4 consecutive days using smartphones. Multilevel modeling showed a significant improvement in negative emotion differentiation postintervention and at 4 months of follow-up, and a significant improvement in positive emotion differentiation at 4 months follow-up. The improvement in negative emotion differentiation, however, was no longer significant when controlling for levels of negative affect. A time-lagged mediation model showed that posttreatment changes in mindfulness skills mediated subsequent changes in negative emotion differentiation, also when controlling for levels of negative affect. These results suggest that MBI is a promising approach to improve people's emotion differentiation skills.

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confidence: 94%

“…This prediction was based on theory and empirical studies showing a clear cross-sectional association between trait mindfulness and emotion differentiation (Fogarty et al, 2015;Hill & Updegraff, 2012;Mandal, Arya, & Pandey, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

An experience sampling study examining the potential impact of a mindfulness-based intervention on emotion differentiation.

Gucht

Dejonckheere

Erbaş

et al. 2019

Emotion

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“…14–16 These focused skills are hallmarks of treatments like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) 17 and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) 18 but are not a focus of the cognitive restructuring commonly used in SBTs for weight loss. 19–21 Thus, ABT may foster enhanced self-regulation skills, which have, in turn, been shown to reduce physiological reactivity 22 and to enhance cognitive function and behavioral regulation. 13,14 However, this possibility has yet to be empirically examined, and the current literature would greatly benefit from the explicit examination of ABT for weight loss and its potential impact on biomarkers and cognition in relation to SBT program outcomes.…”

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Cognitive and Self-regulatory Mechanisms of Obesity Study (COSMOS): Study protocol for a randomized controlled weight loss trial examining change in biomarkers, cognition, and self-regulation across two behavioral treatments

Hawkins

Colaizzi

Gunstad

et al. 2018

Contemporary Clinical Trials

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Obesity is a global epidemic, yet successful interventions are rare. Up to 60% of people fail to achieve clinically meaningful, short-term weight loss (5-10% of start weight), whereas up to 72% are unsuccessful at achieving long-term weight loss (5-10% loss for ≥5years). Understanding how biological, cognitive, and self-regulatory factors work together to promote or to impede weight loss is clearly needed to optimize obesity treatment. This paper describes the methodology of the Cognitive and Self-regulatory Mechanisms of Obesity Study (the COSMOS trial). COSMOS is the first randomized controlled trial to investigate how changes in multiple biopsychosocial and cognitive factors relate to weight loss and one another across two weight loss treatments. The specific aims are to: 1) Confirm that baseline obesity-related physiological dysregulation is linked to cognitive deficits and poorer self-regulation, 2) Evaluate pre- to post-treatment change across time to assess individual differences in biomarkers, cognition, and self-regulation, and 3) Evaluate whether the acceptance-based treatment (ABT) group has greater improvements in outcomes (e.g., greater weight loss and less weight regain, improvements in biomarkers, cognition, and self-regulation), than the standard behavioral treatment group (SBT) from pre- to post-treatment and 1-year follow-up. The results of COSMOS will provide critical information about how dysregulation in biomarkers, cognition, and/or self-regulation is related to weight loss and whether weight loss treatments are differentially associated with these factors. This information will be used to identify promising treatment targets that are informed by biological, cognitive, and self-regulatory factors in order to advance obesity treatment.

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“…Mindfulness interventions have been applied to relieve caregiver stress in working with individuals with autism (Ruiz-Robledillo, Sariñana-González, Pérez-Blasco, González-Bono, & Moya-Albiol, 2015), to increase well-being in college students (Cole et al, 2015), to facilitate emotional regulation (Fogarty, Lu, Sollers, Krivoschekov, Booth, & Consedine, 2015). Relevant to this study, the effects of mindfulness have been used in regards to traumatic experience.…”

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From Life’s Difficulties to Posttraumatic Growth: How Do We Get There?

Redekop¹,

Clark²

2016

PSYCH

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The concept of posttraumatic growth (PTG) suggests that the aftermath of difficult life experiences does not always pose negative consequences. In fact, there are positive outcomes, such as deepened relationships with others and a more positive selfimage (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004). The current study assessed the relationship among difficult life experiences, mindfulness and posttraumatic growth. In order to explore the relationship among these concepts, 152 Mount Royal University students completed a battery of surveys on the current topics. Regression analyses revealed significant moderation effects for the mindfulness facets of observing, nonreacting and nonjudging. These results give some initial evidence for the life's difficulties and PTG by using mindfulness skills. The interplay between PTG and mindfulness is relevant for clinicians dealing with populations with PTSD and adds to the literature on methods for encouraging growth.

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Why It Pays to be Mindful: Trait Mindfulness Predicts Physiological Recovery from Emotional Stress and Greater Differentiation among Negative Emotions

Cited by 67 publications

References 70 publications

An experience sampling study examining the potential impact of a mindfulness-based intervention on emotion differentiation.

An experience sampling study examining the potential impact of a mindfulness-based intervention on emotion differentiation.

Cognitive and Self-regulatory Mechanisms of Obesity Study (COSMOS): Study protocol for a randomized controlled weight loss trial examining change in biomarkers, cognition, and self-regulation across two behavioral treatments

From Life’s Difficulties to Posttraumatic Growth: How Do We Get There?

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