Thinking mindfully: How mindfulness relates to rumination and reflection in daily life.
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in positive affect. However, mindfulness interacted with reflection in the prediction of changes in affect in an unexpected way: At higher levels of nonjudgmental acceptance, reflection was no longer associated with changes in affect. Together, these results suggest that emotion regulation strategies can be more or less adaptive depending on the level of mindfulness. They also accord with the proposal that mindfulness inhibits maladaptive emotion regulation and its impact on affective well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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A growing body of theoretical articles and empirical studies suggests a connection between mindfulness training and the enhancement of emotion regulation strategies.
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The present-moment focus and non-evaluative attitude inherent in mindfulness are antithetical to the abstract self-critical thinking characteristic of rumination.
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The positive effects of mindfulness may occur through increased attention control, emotion regulation abilities, and self-awareness.
“Several papers suggest that the positive effects of mindfulness may occur through increased attention control, emotion regulation abilities, and self-awareness, which are associated with improved self-regulation skills [37,38,39,40,41].”
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- Authors
- Blanke, E. S., Schmidt, M. J., Riediger, M., & Brose, A.
- Venue
- Emotion
- Published
- 2020-12
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1369-1381
- ISSN
- 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
- 1931-1516
- OpenAlex
- W2967091986
- Cited by
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- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Emotion (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (BR 3782/3-1)
- German Socio-Economic Panel Study
- Federal Government and the State of Berlin
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- mindfulness, rumination, reflection, nonjudgmental acceptance, emotion regulation, emotional well-being, positive affect, everyday life, maladaptive emotion regulation
- MeSH terms
- Rumination, Cognitive, Activities of Daily Living, Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Young Adult, Mindfulness
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