Perils and Promise in Defining and Measuring Mindfulness: Observations From Experience

By Kirk Warren Brown, Richard M. Ryan. 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Out of the armchair and into the streets: Measuring mindfulness advances knowledge and improves interventions: Reply to Grossman (2011). (2011, neutral): “…so na l u se o f t he in di vi du al u se r a nd is n ot to b e di ss em in at ed b ro ad ly . with higher levels of acceptance (less judgmentality; Brown & Ryan, 2004), more tolerance (Niemiec et al, 2010), greater selfkindness (Shapiro, Brown, Thoresen, & Plante, 2011), and more empathy for…”
Mindfulness‐based stress reduction and attentional control (2007, background): “One single-factor scale, the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS; Brown & Ryan, 2004), stands apart from these other scales, with 15 items describing attention and other cognitive failures .”
The Self-Control and Self-Management Scale (SCMS): Development of an Adaptive Self-Regulatory Coping Skills Instrument (2009, background): “tracking and degree of awareness of task-related actions, thoughts, and emotions (Kanfer and Karoly 1972; Kanfer and Schefft 1988; Bandura 1991; Rokke and Rehm 2001; Brown and Ryan 2004), as well as degree of maintenance of undivided attention (Kanfer and Schefft 1988; Bandura 1991; Brown and Ryan 2”
Benefits of mindfulness at work: the role of mindfulness in emotion regulation, emotional exhaustion, and job satisfaction. (2013, background): “However, mindfulness is not a “rarified state open only to those undergoing . . . training” (Brown, Ryan, Lov-erich, Biegel, & West, 2011, p. 1042; also see Brown & Ryan, 2004).”
Using Self-Report Assessment Methods to Explore Facets of Mindfulness (2006, background): “This finding may be consistent with those of Brown and Ryan (2004), who noted that the original form of the MAAS had an acceptance factor but that this factor showed no incremental validity in the prediction of criterion measures.”
The Assessment of Mindfulness with Self-Report Measures: Existing Scales and Open Issues (2013, background): “The authors concluded that the acceptance of the present moment is already embedded within the capacity for sustained attention and thus “as a distinct construct, acceptance is functionally redundant in mindfulness” (Brown and Ryan 2004, p. 245).”
Paying Attention to Mindfulness and Its Effects on Task Performance in the Workplace (2011, background): “However, it may be the case that maintaining such acceptance enables one to be mindful (and is thus an antecedent to mindfulness) or is inherent to and thus redundant with existing conceptualizations of mindfulness that do not explicitly mention acceptance (see Brown & Ryan, 2004).”
Deconstructing Mindfulness and Constructing Mental Health: Understanding Mindfulness and its Mechanisms of Action (2010, background): “This circumscribed definition for mindfulness conflicts with the belief that mindfulness exists as a naturally-occurring individual difference, which can be enhanced with a formal mindfulness practice (Baer, 2003; Brown & Ryan, 2003; Brown & Ryan, 2004).”
Self-Compassion and Dispositional Mindfulness Are Associated with Parenting Styles and Parenting Stress: the Mediating Role of Mindful Parenting (2016, background): “…focus on intrapersonal processes by changing the relationship that an individual has with his or her thoughts and feelings, it has been suggested that mindfulness may also have positive effects in interventions targeting interpersonal processes (Brown and Ryan 2004; Coatsworth et al. 2010).”
Reconciling and Thematizing Definitions of Mindfulness: The Big Five of Mindfulness (2016, background): “Brown and Ryan (2004) also distinguish between awareness and attention.”
The Impact of Intensive Mindfulness Training on Attentional Control, Cognitive Style, and Affect (2008, background): “Resulting from these processes may be enhanced levels of exposure (Kabat-Zinn, 1982; Kabat-Zinn et al., 1992) and acceptance (Brown & Ryan, 2004; Hayes, 1994; Roemer & Orsillo, 2002; Teasdale et al., 1995).”
Development and Preliminary Validation of a Trait Version of the Toronto Mindfulness Scale (2009, background): “…and valid measures for assessing levels of mindfulness before and after mindfulness-based interventions are a prerequisite to conducting rigorously designed investigations into the mechanisms underlying the effectiveness of MBTs (Bishop et al., 2004; Brown & Ryan, 2004; Dimidjian & Linehan, 2003).”