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19-11-2016 | LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Exploring Individual Profiles in Mindfulness Measures

Auteurs: Birgit Kaisa Eliassen, Tordis S. Høifødt

Gepubliceerd in: Mindfulness | Uitgave 2/2017

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People attending mindfulness courses learn at different tempos, and it is not easy to determine who will improve quickly and who will need more time. Factors such as motivation, trust, skepticism, and individual learning modes (intellectual or emotional oriented) could influence the pace of learning. As a facilitator, one is often surprised by who benefits most and least. Furthermore, the ability to be mindful in daily life (i.e., trait mindfulness) varies considerably between people as a function of age, education level (Bränström et al. 2011), and meditation practice (Josefsson et al. 2011) being the major moderators. A hypothesis might be that those who start lowest have most to gain, as it would naturally take more for a thoroughly mindful person to become even more mindful. However, whether levels of trait mindfulness influence the outcomes of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) is not clear. de Vibe et al. (2015) found no connection between baseline mindfulness and the effect of MBI on outcome measures with medical and psychology students, while another study reported that students with higher levels of baseline mindfulness increased most in mindfulness and other outcome measures after MBI (Shapiro et al. 2011). …
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Titel
Exploring Individual Profiles in Mindfulness Measures
Auteurs
Birgit Kaisa Eliassen
Tordis S. Høifødt
Publicatiedatum
19-11-2016
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Mindfulness / Uitgave 2/2017
Print ISSN: 1868-8527
Elektronisch ISSN: 1868-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-016-0642-5