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Open AccessDoes Mindfulness Decrease or Increase Egoic Functioning? Diverging Evidence From Different Study Designs
Mindfulness meditation has been claimed to decrease aspects of egoic functioning (EF). However, empirical evidence is largely lacking or is suggesting the reverse. Therefore, the aim was to examine the associa...
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Open AccessThe Self-Pattern and Buddhist Psychology
In this paper, we address core insights from Buddhist psychology about mind-body phenomena and the self, and we relate such insights to the notion of the self-pattern developed in the pattern theory of self. W...
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Affective Reactivity Mediates an Inverse Relation Between Mindfulness and Anxiety
Little is known about the mechanisms through which mindfulness is related to psychological symptoms such as anxiety. One potential mechanism consists of individual differences in emotion-responding variables s...