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14-04-2016 | ORIGINAL PAPER

Popular Conceptions of Mindfulness: Awareness and Emotional Control

Auteurs: Peter F. Hitchcock, Lindsay M. Martin, Laura Fischer, Stephanie Marando-Blanck, James D. Herbert

Gepubliceerd in: Mindfulness | Uitgave 4/2016

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Abstract

Mindfulness has become a fixture of both clinical treatment and popular culture. Much research and theoretical scholarship have operationalized “mindfulness” as clinicians use the term, yet no research has examined popular (i.e., lay) conceptions of mindfulness. Mindfulness trainings and interventions are now widely offered on college campuses. Thus, as a starting point for assessing lay conceptions of the construct, we examined how undergraduate college students at an urban university (N = 361) conceptualize mindfulness. In open-ended responses, participants linked mindfulness to awareness of external objects, internal sensations, or being in the present moment. When rating sentences on how well they represented mindfulness, participants strongly associated mindfulness with controlling emotions. In both the open-ended and sentence stem responses, mindfulness was rarely associated with psychological acceptance, which is notable because of the importance of acceptance in mindfulness-based clinical treatments. Implications and future directions are discussed.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Popular Conceptions of Mindfulness: Awareness and Emotional Control
Auteurs
Peter F. Hitchcock
Lindsay M. Martin
Laura Fischer
Stephanie Marando-Blanck
James D. Herbert
Publicatiedatum
14-04-2016
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Mindfulness / Uitgave 4/2016
Print ISSN: 1868-8527
Elektronisch ISSN: 1868-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-016-0533-9

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