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Relationship between Meditative Practice and Self-Reported Mindfulness: The MINDSENS Composite Index
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Mindfulness has been described as an inherent human capability that can be learned and trained, and its improvement has been associated with better health outcomes in both medicine and psychology. Although the role of practice is central to most mindfulness programs, practice-related improvements in mindfulness skills is not consistently reported and little is known about how the characteristics of meditative practice affect different components of mindfulness. The present study explores the role of practice parameters on self-reported mindfulness skills. A total of 670 voluntary participants with and without previous meditation experience (n = 384 and n = 286, respectively) responded to an internet-based survey on various aspects of their meditative practice (type of meditation, length of session, frequency, and lifetime practice). Participants also completed the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), and the Experiences Questionnaire (EQ). The group with meditation experience obtained significantly higher scores on all facets of FFMQ and EQ questionnaires compared to the group without experience. However different effect sizes were observed, with stronger effects for the Observing and Non-Reactivity facets of the FFMQ, moderate effects for Decentering in EQ, and a weak effect for Non-judging, Describing, and Acting with awareness on the FFMQ. Our results indicate that not all practice variables are equally relevant in terms of developing mindfulness skills. Frequency and lifetime practice--but not session length or meditation type--were associated with higher mindfulness skills. Given that these 6 mindfulness aspects show variable sensitivity to practice, we created a composite index (MINDSENS) consisting of those items from FFMQ and EQ that showed the strongest response to practice. The MINDSENS index was able to correctly discriminate daily meditators from non-meditators in 82.3% of cases. These findings may contribute to the understanding of the development of mindfulness skills and support trainers and researchers in improving mindfulness-oriented practices and programs.
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“A particularly striking result was that ayahuasca administration led to increases in the MINDSENS composite index (56, 57), which is particularly sensitive to the effects of meditation practise (52, 98).”
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“The enhanced scores in trait mindfulness achieved in some studies after psychedelic administration (56, 57) were comparable and, in some cases, higher than those reported by a sample of long-term mindfulness meditators (98).”
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“It has been previously suggested [58] that among meditator samples Observe and Nonreact could be especially sensitive to formal meditation practice [25], [59].”
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“Considering this, both facets, along with decentering, seem to efficiently differentiate among those who have daily practice meditation from those who never have meditated [2], [59].”
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- Authors
- Soler, J., Cebolla, A., Feliu-Soler, A., Demarzo, M. M. P., Pascual, J. C., Baños, R., & García-Campayo, J.
- Affiliations
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
- Universitat Jaume I (ES)
- Universidade Federal de São Paulo (BR)
- Universitat de València (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Soler, Joaquim
- Venue
- PLoS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2014-01-22
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- e86622
- ISSN
- 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3899282
- OpenAlex
- W2063037512
- Cited by
- 138
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 5
- FWCI
- 16.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
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- PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Repositori UJI (Universitat Jaume I) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
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- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Zaguan (Universidad de Zaragoza) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Keywords
- mindfulness, meditation practice, session duration, observation, non-reactivity, decentering, non-judgment, description, acting with awareness
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Meditation, Self Report, Mindfulness
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