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Open AccessEffects of Quality Practice on a Compassion Cultivation Training: Somatic and Imagery Levels of Analysis
Compassion-based interventions (CBIs) are effective in promoting mental health. However, the mechanisms through which CBIs produce these positive outcomes are not fully known. The amount of meditation practice...
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Open AccessMeditators’ Non-academic Definition of Mindfulness
Mindfulness has been defined differently in academic scientific contexts and in Buddhist academic contexts. An under-studied area is that of lay (non-academic) theories of mindfulness. The goal of this article...
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Open AccessIndividual Differences in Dispositional Mindfulness Predict Attentional Networks and Vigilance Performance
Research addressing the relationship between dispositional mindfulness and objective attention performance remains inconclusive, partly because previous studies used sample sizes possibly leading to underpower...
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Open AccessImpact of Mindfulness Training on Spanish Police Officers’ Mental and Emotional Health: a Non-Randomized Pilot Study
The purpose of this exploratory non-randomized controlled study was to determine the acceptance and effectiveness of an 8-week mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) co-designed by a police officer.
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Effectiveness of a Blended Internet-Based Mindfulness Intervention in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients: a Mixed-Methods Non-randomized Controlled Trial
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) usually experience psychosocial impairment and psychiatric comorbidity related to the chronic course, relapsing activity (unpredictable risk of flare), and conseq...
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Compassion-Based Meditation Quality Practice and Its Impact on the Positive Attitudes Toward Others
The authors report on the initial development and validation of the Compassion Practice Quality Scale (CPQS), a measure to assess the quality of compassion-based meditation (CBM). It is conceptualized and oper...
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Dispositional Mindfulness and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Mindful Awareness Mediates the Relation Between Severity and Quality of Life, Stress, and Fatigue
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic and idiopathic gastrointestinal pathology whose bi-directional relation with psychological variables (e.g., quality of life, fatigue, and stress) has been studied ...
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Leaning forward to increase approach motivation! The role of joy, exercise, and posture in achieving goals
Positive affect, exercise, and leaning forward body postures have been shown to play a role in the motivational variables that assist in the goal achievement process. The aim of this study is to analyze whethe...
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Exploring the Role of Explicit and Implicit Self-Esteem and Self-Compassion in Anxious and Depressive Symptomatology Following Acquired Brain Injury
Acquired brain injury (ABI) can lead to the emergence of several disabilities and is commonly associated with high rates of anxiety and depression symptoms. Self-related constructs, such as self-esteem and sel...
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An Exploratory Study on the Relations Between Mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Intervention Outcomes
We explored whether baseline individual differences in mindfulness related to changes in mindfulness and emotional outcomes, following a mindfulness-based intervention (MBI).
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Increased Salivary Oxytocin and Empathy in Students of Clinical and Health Psychology After a Mindfulness and Compassion-Based Intervention
Mindfulness and compassion-based interventions (MCBI) have shown to be effective in increasing self-reported empathy in healthcare professionals. However, no studies described a beneficial effect of MCBI on bi...
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Implicit or Explicit Compassion? Effects of Compassion Cultivation Training and Comparison with Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction
Mindfulness-based interventions generally include compassion implicitly, but it remains to be seen whether implicit compassion training can be effective, or if it needs to be trained explicitly through specifi...
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How Does Mindfulness Work? Exploring a Theoretical Model Using Samples of Meditators and Non-meditators
Several models have been proposed to explain the effects of mindfulness training on health and well-being, including several potential mechanisms. The goal of the present study is to empirically test a model o...
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Meditation Practice Is Associated with a Values-Oriented Life: the Mediating Role of Decentering and Mindfulness
Clarification of personal values and meditation practice has been associated in most meditation traditions and in academic texts. Both values-related behavior and meditation practice increases well-being, but ...
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Cultivating Emotional Balance in Professional Caregivers: a Pilot Intervention
Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) is an evidenced-based Mindfulness and Compassion-Based Intervention (MCBI) designed to reduce destructive, negative emotional experiences toward oneself and others and to pr...
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Embodiment and Body Awareness in Meditators
Mindfulness practice consists of focusing attention in an intentional way on the experience of the present moment, including bodily sensations, thoughts or feelings, and the environment, with an attitude of ac...
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Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Nonattachment Scale (NAS) and Its Relationship with Mindfulness, Decentering, and Mental Health
Nonattachment is a Buddhism-rooted construct, which can be defined as the relative absence of fixation on ideas, images, or sensory objects, as well as an absence of internal pressure to get, hold, avoid, or c...
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Open AccessMindfulness, perceived stress, and subjective well-being: a correlational study in primary care health professionals
Primary health care professionals (PHPs) usually report high levels of distress and burnout symptoms related to job strain. Mindfulness, defined as non-judgmental-present-moment awareness, seems to be a modera...
