Journal article
Popular Conceptions of Mindfulness: Awareness and Emotional Control
Mindfulness, v 7(4), pp 940-949
01 Aug 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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- Title
- Popular Conceptions of Mindfulness: Awareness and Emotional Control
- Creators
- Peter F. Hitchcock - Drexel UniversityLindsay M. Martin - Drexel UniversityLaura Fischer - Drexel UniversityStephanie Marando-Blanck - Drexel UniversityJames D. Herbert - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Mindfulness, v 7(4), pp 940-949
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 10
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Behavioral Health Education; [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000382860000015
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84977138018
- Other Identifier
- 991019168068704721
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- Psychiatry
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