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On the relationship between the practice of mindfulness meditation and personality-an exploratory analysis of the mediating role of mindfulness skills
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Mindfulness meditation (MM) has often been suggested to induce fundamental changes in the way events in life are experienced and dealt with, presumably leading to alterations in personality. However, the relationship between the practice of MM and personality has not been systematically studied. The aim of this study was to explore this relationship and to investigate the mediating role of mindfulness skills. Thirty-five experienced mindfulness meditators (age range, 31-75 years; meditation experience range, 0.25-35 years; mean, ∼13 years) and 35 age-, gender-, and ethnicity-matched controls (age range, 27-63 years) without any meditation experience completed a personality (NEO-FFI) and mindfulness (KIMS) questionnaire. The practice of MM was positively related to openness and extraversion and negatively related to neuroticism and conscientiousness. Thus, the results of the current study associate the practice of MM with higher levels of curiosity and receptivity to new experiences and experience of positive affect and with less proneness toward negative emotions and worrying and a reduced focus on achievements. Furthermore, the mediating role of specific mindfulness skills in the relationship between the practice of MM and personality traits was shown.
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“The latter possibility is more likely given that trait mindfulness has been shown to be associated with greater openness to experience (Baer et al., 2004, van den Hurk et al., 2011), and there is an association between schizotypy and openness to experience (DeYoung et al., 2011).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- van den Hurk, P. A. M., Wingens, T., Giommi, F., Barendregt, H. P., Speckens, A. E. M., & van Schie, H. T.
- Affiliations
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Venue
- Mindfulness
- Published
- 2011-06-18
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 194-200
- ISSN
- 1868-8527 (ISSN-L)
- 1868-8535
- PMC
- PMC3146707
- OpenAlex
- W2158147424
- Cited by
- 135
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc
- Locations
- Mindfulness (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Keywords
- mindfulness meditation, personality traits, mindfulness skills, mediating role, Big Five personality traits, openness to experience, extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, positive affect, negative affect, meditation experience
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