KINE 4370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cognitive Dissonance, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Buddhist Philosophy
21 Dec 2017
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The difficulty of defining mindfulness: current thought and critical issues. Abstract: in the last decade, a surge of interest has been directed towards the empirical investigation of the concept and applications of mindfulness. It could also be described as awareness: facilities and is a result of mindfulness and concentration. Mental skill/state: adoption of an orientation marked by curiosity, openness, acceptance. Accounts for personality characteristics: 3-component model of mindfulness and how it affects positive change, attention, attitude, intention. Quantitative definitions of mindfulness within modern western psychology. Mindfulness as a single faceted trait: present-centered attention, mindfulness attention awareness scale (maas) 15-item. Items represented 4 aspects of mindfulness: mindful observation, letting go, nonaversion, nonjudgment: detected differences between meditators and nonmeditators, increases in mindfulness skills during a training, correlated with mood rating, limitations, lack of control groups. Information derived from nonclinical populations so can it be generalized: no follow up data to see long term effects.
