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Björkegren, Adam. "Mindfulness." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-28573.
Vallerström, Linda. "Mindfulness : Mindfulness-baserad Stressreduktion för krigsveteraner med Posttraumatisk Stressyndrom." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-75080.
Mulligan, Rowan. "MINDFULNESS MATTERS: The Effects of Mindfulness on Organizational Citizenship Behavior." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1992.
Ives-Deliperi, Victoria. "The matter of mindfulness : investigations into the mechanisms of mindfulness." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8182.
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Mindfulness may be described as a state of heightened present-moment awareness that we all experience to a greater of lesser extent. Enhancing this quality of awareness through training has shown to alleviate stress and promote mental and physical well-being and, as a consequence, the clinical application of mindfulness is gaining in popularity. Because of this, there is a growing need to understand how mindfulness were investigaged in a series of research studies in this thesis, by means of literature analysis, clinical intervention, functional brain imaging and brain-lesion methods. In Study One a total of 10 commonly proposed mechanisms of mindfulness were identified through a qualitive systematic analysis of the literature: self-regulation, exposure, cognitive flexibility, acceptance, disidentification, awareness/insight, reattribution, attention, metacognition, and relaxation. Mediation analyses in Study Two confirmed that acceptance and cognitive flexibility significantly mediated the relationship between mindfulness and reduced symptoms of stress and the acceptance significantly mediated the relationship between mindfulness and mood disturbance. Functional magnetic resonance imaging was employed in Study Three to further test these findings and state mindfulness shown to mediate midline cortical regions associated with interoception. The findings of Study Three suggest that mindfulness may be associated with positive outcomes through a process of disidentification; a process described as removing the 'self' in the experiencing of passing events. Damage to the midline cortical brain regions identified in Study Three, however, showed to have no significant effect on naturally-occurring mindfulness, according the results of a pilot brain-lesion investigation in Study Four. Based on the findings of the studies in this thesis, it is suggested that mindfulness may reduce vulnerability to stress and emotional distress through a meta-mechanism of disidentification and through more direct mechanisms: acceptance and cognitive flexibility. The collected evidence supports the application of mindfulness training as an intervention to advance affective and cognitive well-being. At a broader level, the findings also establish a firmer relationship between mental control and optimal mental functioning.
Parker, Chelsey Nichole. "Mindfulness for More: Piloting a Mindfulness Program for Underserved Populations." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1525109153266523.
Gallegos, Paja Bryan Julio, Principe Eleni Zoila Leonardo, Bazan Vivian Milagros Saldaña, and Angulo Daniel Alfonso Vento. "Prana Mindfulness Studio." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/652867.
This research work is developed with the implementation of implementing mindfulness sessions at a corporate level focused on Top and Middle Management, a different alternative that is operative and economically factible. The motivation to develop this project is given by current trends in physical and emotional health care through stress management (Euromonitor, 2019) due to changes in the work and personal environment. However, the use of the methodology used is based on the Canvas Model determined the most important points of the visual form. Such information was validated through in-depth interviews by human resources experts and meditation experts, which confirmed the target audience with an interest in physical and emotional well-being. In addition, the company has an administrative office in the Miraflores district. On the other hand, in the economic evaluation of the business plan, a return of s / 57 512.32 is obtained. The results found an initial investment of s /. 103 490 of which 50% is own capital and 50% will be financed. Considering an expected scenario with the annual sale of 80 packages annual and the attendance of 5 average people for practices of 5 sessions per program, obtain an annual net profit of s /. 74 810.65 in the first year. Considering the different aspects only in the pessimistic one obtains TIR of 51%, in the optimistic obtains131% and the TIRE obtains of 43.77%. The economic flows show positively from the first year, being in 2021 of s/.74 810.65, reaching s/. 60 269.10 to 2022 and s/. 66 247.67 to 2023. Regarding financial flow, s/. 54 515.45 in the year 2021 and reaching s/ .43 378.64 by 2023.
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Hollis, Will. "Mindfulness of Minnows." TopSCHOLAR®, 2018. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/3066.
Blackburn, Kara Fahey. "The Effects of classroom-based mindfulness meditation on MBA student mindfulness." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104226.
This study was an experimental trial of a classroom-based intervention to influence mindfulness among MBA students at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). MBA students at MIT Sloan and elsewhere are conditioned to look forward and reflect on the past only to the degree that it helps plan for the future. They are rarely taught to be aware of what is occurring in the current moment. Training students to be more mindful, that is better able to be aware of and to pay attention to present moment experience would contribute to the mission of MBA programs to create leaders by giving students meaningful insight into their own thoughts, feelings, and actions. Within the literatures of medicine, neuroscience, psychology, and education, investigators have found that mindfulness has been positively correlated with improved well-being, reduced stress, better decision-making and perspective-taking, as well as improved personal relationships (Brown and Ryan, 2003; Block-Lerner, Adair, Plumb, Rhatigan, & Orsillo, 2007; Dekeyser, Raes, Leijssen, Leysen, & Dewulf, 2008; De Dea Roglio & Light, 2009; Kabat-Zinn, 1994). While the potential benefits of mindfulness have been established in multiple fields, there is scant research on mindfulness and MBA students. This research study explored whether brief mindfulness meditation exercises, embedded in an existing course, would influence MBA students' levels of mindfulness as measured by the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) (Brown & Ryan, 2003). In the fall 2014 semester, a sample of 158 first-year MBA students from MIT Sloan participated in an experiment with modified randomization of a pre/post design. Data analysis revealed that participant scores on the MAAS decreased significantly from pretest to posttest, though less so in the treatment group. These findings suggest that the intervention was not robust enough to exert a positive influence on participants' levels of mindfulness in the graduate business school context. This research contributes to the literature by providing important information about the requisite exposure to and scalability of the intervention in research on mindfulness meditation in higher education
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education
Kärrström, Katja. "Neural correlates of mindfulness related to stress : How mindfulness promotes wellbeing." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-16089.
Lindgren, Ellen. "Follow-up Analysis of Two New Mindfulness Based Interventions: The Interpersonal Mindfulness Program and the Mindfulness and Sustainable Life Program." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för psykologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-36725.
Martin, Angela Marina. "Cultivating mindfulness: an exploration of relationships between mindfulness, attachment and emotion regulation." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495014.
Van, Auken James Anthony. "The Relationship Between Mindfulness and Leadership: How Mindfulness Practices Affect Leadership Practices." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1570457602679392.
Burke, Leah, Francesca Adler-Baeder, and Julianne McGill. "Mindfulness, Parenting Efficacy and Child Age: Does the Facet of Mindfulness Matter?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/secfr-conf/2018/schedule/13.
Baldeon, Sancho Eliana Elizabeth, Greison Ornella Paola Rosa Defilippi, Correa Carolina Realene Escriba, and Sihuay Denis Giovanni Zarate. "Samka Siestario & Mindfulness." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/623017.
Implement a business project for the creation of a company that provides corporate welfare services through rest modules inserted in companies that seek better efficiency results and retention of human talent. These rest modules fulfill the role of siestario (Nap Rooms) and include guided sessions of Mindfulness, working, mainly, on the prevention and management of work-stress that, consequently, produces low labor productivity or, what is even worse, brings consequences on the health of the employee, which could have physical and psychological affections.
Gilbert, Desleigh D. "Mindfulness and Health Behaviors." The University of Montana, 2010. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-01062010-183350/.
CAVALCANTI, DIANA DE HOLLANDA. "FOR A MINDFULNESS LITERATURE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30163@1.
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Por uma literatura da plena atenção ergue mais uma ponte entre a sabedoria ocidental e a oriental, ao apontar como caminho para o conhecimento o budismo. A dissertação desvela o processo criativo do romance O homem dos patos, da própria autora, em dois planos. O primeiro se refere à formação de seu entendimento acerca do mundo a partir das Três Características: Anicca (Impermanência), Anatta (Não-eu) e Dukkha (Sofrimento). O segundo desenvolve como esse entendimento se conecta direta e indispensavelmente às práticas de Satipatthana (Plena atenção) e meditação Vipassana, e o que estas implicam no exercício literário. Trechos do romance se entremeiam à dissertação, que consiste em um trabalho literário à parte.
For a mindfulness literature raises one more bridge between western and eastern wisdom, by pointing at buddhism as the path to knowledge. The dissertation reveals the creative process of the novel O homem dos patos, from the author herself, in two schemes. The first refers to the framing of her knowledge about the world around the Three characteristics: Anicca (Impermanence), Anatta (Egolessness) and Dukkha (Suffering). The second explains how this knowledge is directly and indispensably connected to the practices of Satipatthana (Mindfulness) and Vipassana meditation (Insight meditation), and how these affect the literary exercise. Excerpts of the novel are interwoven with the dissertation, which is an entirely new literary work.
Lawrence, Emma Jane. "Mindfulness and emotion processing." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2014. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/mindfulness-and-emotion-processing(20e38640-147a-41c4-b6d8-aecaf0ca039b).html.
Peets, J. (Jane). "Mindfulness in educator’s workplace." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201803301409.
Yoo, Seung-Hoon. "STAY : Mindfulness and Space." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-171731.
Griffin, Michael P. "Mindfulness, Meditation, and Anger." W&M ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626342.
Kulsrud, Cecilie Stoer. "MBCM - The Mindfulness Based Coaching Model: a mindfulness based approach to coaching : an integration ofBuddhist mindfulness training into the coaching practice." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45621160.
Murray, Clara. "Imaging mindfulness, An investigation of the psychological mechanisms of mindfulness using functional neuroimaging." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.510427.
Kam, Wing-pong Roddy, and 甘榮邦. "Mindfulness (sati) meditation trends: merger of clinical psychology and the Buddhism mindfulness meditation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45166158.
Reiman, Magdalena, and Malin Matsson. "Mindfulness i arbetet : En intervjustudie om upplevelser av att utöva mindfulness i arbetet." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för psykologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-106098.
Marshall, Jemma E. "Prophylactic effects of mindfulness : the role of mindfulness in the treatment of anxiety." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2012. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/347118/.
Kopencey, Sarah M. "Effects of A Mindfulness-Based Mobile Application on Empathy and Mindfulness with Psychotherapists." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1514559320341008.
Davis, Tetyana. "VALIDATION OF EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY FOR STATE MINDFULNESS INDUCTION IN A CONTROLLED LABORATORY SETTING." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu152811929144756.
Rajamäki, Suvi. "Mindfulness-based stress reduction: Does mindfulness training affect competence based self-esteem and burnout?" Thesis, Stockholms universitet, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-58870.
Hamman, Liza. "Critical theory, transformative learning and mindfulness: A case study of a mindfulness training programme." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6646.
Mindfulness and the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) programme is becoming increasingly popular in the Western world. These days, there are many institutes and organisations that support and promote mindfulness, while there is also a growing body of research and academic literature on the topic. Yet, despite the implicit connection to social change, the focus of secular mindfulness in the Western world has primarily remained on the benefits that mindfulness hold for the individual. This notion prompts the question whether there is a relationship between mindfulness and social change. The key theoretical constructs that constitute the theoretical framework of my study include Habermas’s critical theory and his emancipatory-cognitive interest in knowledge creation, and Mezirow’s transformative learning theory, which expanded the Habermasian theory in terms of adult education and learning. Guided by my theoretical framework, the primary research question was formulated as follows: ‘What are the relationships between mindfulness, emancipatory learning and social change?’ In order to address this research question, I selected a case study research approach and collected data using both quantitative and qualitative instruments. For my empirical investigation I selected, as my case study, an MBSR programme offered in Cape Town, South Africa. The data were collected from 55 adult learners who participated in the programme. To my knowledge, this is the first academic research study that investigates the MBSR programme in the field of adult education and learning in a South African context.
Thompson, Jennifer. "An exploration of dispositional mindfulness across the lifespan and mindfulness interventions for older people." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2014. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/65213/.
Krusche, Adele Stephanie. "Mindfulness during pregnancy : an evaluation of mindfulness and negative mood over the perinatal period." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:034b6a83-b0b3-487e-9524-c621336c7697.
Merlo, Beth Marie. "Mindfulness for Stress Reduction: Qualitative Analysis of Perceptions from College Students and Mindfulness Instructors." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2020. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/2156.
Nolan, Connell. "Safety Mindfulness| The Incorporation of Low-Dose Mindfulness as a Leading Edge Safety Intervention." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10261164.
With nearly 2.9 million work related injuries in the United States each year and nearly 5,000 work related deaths, opportunities exist to build on existing safety management interventions to improve workplace safety. In addition to the impact on worker’s lives related to workplace safety accidents, workplace related injuries and deaths account for nearly $200 billion in direct costs to U.S. organizations. Current research in the application of workplace mindfulness offers the potential for a leading edge intervention that can lead to increased attention and situational awareness, which could greatly enhance workplace safety. The current study explored the relationship that low-dose mindfulness practice has on workplace safety.
Included in the current study was an examination of current and historical interventions for managing safety as well as a review of mindfulness research, with an emphasis on workplace mindfulness, and finally a review of the limited research that has begun to explore the relationship between mindfulness and workplace safety. A case study was conducted with a lab in a large bio-tech company in Southern California. 16 participants engaged in daily mindfulness training for six weeks. After the six-week trial, participants were interviewed, results were analyzed and organized into results, theoretical implications, and practical implications. The case study concluded with summarizing key themes, surfacing limitations of the study and recommendations for further study were identified. The findings of this study suggest there are great opportunities for low-dose mindfulness to positively impact workplace safety, potentially saving individuals from harm and organizations from costly accidents.
Atzev, Boyan. "Mindful of Mindfulness-Based Therapy." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35800.
Franquesa, Galí Alba. "Defusión, mindfulness y valores personales." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/461280.
This thesis is about the study of the psychological process variables that are active in the beneficial effects of meditation as well as in other therapeutic practices. The thesis’s main focus is the ability of decentering, described as the ability to observe one’s thoughts and feelings as temporary, objective events in the mind, as opposed to reflections of the self that are necessarily true. The ability of decentering is a key process for healthy psychological functioning, hence it is a common factor identified in different pathologies and psychotherapies. The first piece of work presented in this thesis consists on the validation of the Spanish version of the Experiences Questionnaire‐Decentering scale. The scale showed good psychometric properties. It also demonstrated that the participants with psychiatric diagnosis scored lower than the non‐clinical control group, and that the subjects without meditative experience scored lower than the subjects with meditative experience. We also present here the analysis of the relationship between meditative practice and valued behavior and the mediating processes involved in it. We demonstrated that daily meditators are more aware of their values, more consistent with them and have overall more life fulfillment. The measures of values correlated with the processes of mindfulness and decentering, and we could observe their mediating role amongst meditative practice and values. Decentering mediated the relationship between meditative practice and value‐related behavior. The association between meditative practice and valued living and life fulfillment was mediated by both the capacity of decentering and the dimensions of description and nonjudgment of mindfulness. Finally, since ayahuasca’s consumption has been demonstrated to have therapeutic potential for depressive symptomatology, substance abuse and complicated mourning; this thesis explores whether the psychological processes underlying the benefits of taking ayahuasca are common with the psychological processes underlying mindfulness. Our results show that ayahuasca intake produces significant increases in the mindfulness facets of nonjudgment and non‐reaction of the FFMQ scale and in decentering. In addition, the scores obtained after consumption are in the range of those observed after an extensive practice of mindfulness.
Savas, Serdar. "Mindfulness och den biopsykosociala modellen." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Psychology, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8492.
Mindfulness har i ett flertal studier observerats vara sammankopplat
med olika aspekter av hälsa: biologiska, psykologiska såväl som sociala aspekter. Syftet med föreliggande studie är att 1) belysa hur hälsa kan främjas genom mindfulnessmetoder och 2) genom den biopsykosociala modellen belysa komplexiteten i hälsa som begrepp och därigenom uppmana sjukvården att mer aktivt använda sig av multidimensionella modeller. Urvalet bestod av psykologistudenter (n=125) och arbetssökande (n=30). Genom Pearson korrelationskoefficient erhölls resultat som visar att det finns ett starkt samband mellan mindfulness och olika hälsoaspekter och även ett starkt samband hälsoaspekterna sinsemellan. Resultaten i föreliggande studie är i enlighet med rådande teorier som säger att mindfulness påverkar hälsa positivt genom bättre verklighetsanpassning och att hälsa är en komplex företeelse med flera interagerande komponenter.
Byström, Ulrica, and Angelica Wesslén. "Mindfulness - ett sätt att leva." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-9792.
Hillgaar, Stian Douglas. "Mindfulness and self regulated learning." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Psykologisk institutt, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-13594.
Gardner, Jenny. "Mindfulness and non-clinical paranoia." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604556.
Baker, David. "Mindfulness, self-regulation, and personality." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5926.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on December 19, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
Eliasson, Karin. "Mindfulness och effekter vid rökavvänjning." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-10077.
Nielsen, Jodi K. "Impacts of brief mindfulness training." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1566768.
The present mixed method study examined the impacts of brief mindfulness training on cultivation of mindfulness traits, physical and emotional well-being, and relationship quality. Twenty-nine graduate students were organized into a control (n = 14) and a treatment (n = 15) group. All participants completed pre/post measures of their mindfulness competencies, physical and emotional well-being, and relationship quality. The treatment group participated in a 4-week mindfulness training workshop. The control group exhibited no significant changes over the study period. The treatment group exhibited significant improvement of self-reported mindfulness competencies and improved emotional and physical well-being and relationship quality. The results of the present study are encouraging, emphasizing the value of brief training designs for cultivating mindful awareness. Continued practice and research in this area is expected to introduce more and more people to the benefits of mindfulness, enabling them to experience the benefits of more personally attuned and aware living.
Magnusson, Jennie, and Liselott Koppelomäki. "Yoga och mindfulness för barn." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för utbildningsvetenskap (UV), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-39163.
Tinova, Maria. "Mindfulness, neurobehavioural functioning and sleep." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6252/.
Justice, Emma. "Mindfulness and the therapeutic encounter." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2014. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/12792/.
Eliasson, Elina, and Åsa Sjöstedt. "Mindfulness som omvårdnadsåtgärd : en kunskapsöversikt." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för hälsa, lärande och teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-82917.
Almond, Lindsey, Julianne McGill, and Francesca Adler-Baeder. "Demographic Variations in Mindfulness Levels." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/secfr-conf/2020/schedule/19.
Espinosa, Amaris. "Art As A Mindfulness Practice." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1537904782837034.
Hellebrand, Adam. "A Mindfulness Approach to Diversity." Thesis, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10270048.
Organizations continue to invest time and money in diversity programs to provide people with the competencies to work effectively in an increasingly diverse workplace. Most programs are based on cognitive theories of behavior change and research however fails to show long-term changes in attitudes and behavior (e.g., Brynes & Kiger, 1990; Hogan & Mallot, 2005; Sanchez & Medkik, 2004). Empirical work on mindfulness demonstrates that greater awareness of the process of one’s own thinking, and the process of active categorization has been associated with reductions in stereotypes, prejudice, and the emotional discomfort related to cognitive dissonance (e.g., Djikic et al., 2008; Hayes et al., 2004; Lillis & Hayes, 2007; Kuscera, 2009). Unfortunately, only one study of diversity programs that included a formal mindfulness intervention was found (e.g., Lillis & Hayes, 2007). Given the prevalence of experiential exercises in programs as well as a theoretical argument that can be drawn between Kabat-Zinn’s (2003) definition of mindfulness and experiential exercises, this study utilized meta-analytical procedures to investigate whether programs that included experiential activities showed stronger and longer lasting positive effects. Results indicated that programs that included experiential activities were indeed correlated with better affective outcomes (i.e., attitudes, feelings, and interracial comfort and tolerance) in academic settings, at least in the short-term. Future recommendations regarding the intentional use of mindfulness interventions are made to further enhance affective outcomes among diversity programs both inside and outside of academia.
Sedgfield, Amber. "Mindfulness during the perinatal period." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/76034/.