The mindful personality: A meta-analysis from a cybernetic perspective
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Dispositional mindfulness (DM), or the tendency to attend to present moment experience, may have important implications for the structure of human personality. However, relationships between DM and the Big Five Model of Personality (BF) have not been definitively established. Therefore, the purpose of this meta-analysis was to extend previous investigations of the relationship between DM and the BF, utilizing a larger sample of studies, attending to relational inconsistencies potentially associated with alternative methods of operationalizing DM, conducting the first meta-analysis of the DM subdomains in relation to the BF, and situating the results in a cybernetic model. Results indicate that neuroticism evidenced the strongest, negative relationship with DM and conscientiousness evidenced the strongest, positive relationship with DM, suggesting the mindful personality may be characterized principally by emotional stability and conscientious self-regulation - potentially reflective of an inclination towards the personality metatrait stability. Measurement differences were also observed, with the mindful personality arrived at through the FFMQ differing to some extent from the mindful personality emerging from the MAAS. Broadly, the mindful personality associated with the FFMQ appears to reflect greater personality complexity, with the FFMQ evidencing associations with all five personality factors while the MAAS appears primarily linked with only three personality factors (Neuroticism, Conscientiousness and Agreeableness). Examination of the relationships between the BF and DM at the facet level also suggest unique patterns of association between the DM facets and each of the personality factors.
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Mindfulness trait mitigates negative reactivity tendencies associated with neuroticism.
“Its association with the Big Five personality traits [29] shows that MT mitigates negative reactivity tendencies associated with neurotiscism [30,31].”
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The Introduction describes reactivity as characteristic of neuroticism and suggests that mindfulness-related nonreactivity may help people navigate negative emotions. The Discussion’s Full Analysis reports a negative association between dispositional mindfulness and neuroticism. Neither establishes the unqualified claim that trait mindfulness mitigates neurotic reactivity. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Hanley, A. W., & Garland, E. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Utah (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hanley, Adam W.
- Venue
- Mindfulness
- Published
- 2017-06-17
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1456-1470
- ISSN
- 1868-8527 (ISSN-L)
- 1868-8535
- PMC
- PMC5822739
- OpenAlex
- W2625205811
- Cited by
- 75
- References
- 104
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 0.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Mindfulness (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R34DA037005)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Keywords
- trait mindfulness, Big Five personality model, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, emotional stability, self-regulation, mindfulness facets, Mindful Attention Awareness Scale
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