From a state to a trait: Trajectories of state mindfulness in meditation during intervention predict changes in trait mindfulness
By Laura G. Kiken, Eric L. Garland, K. Bluth, O. Palsson, S. Gaylord. Personality and Individual Differences, 2015
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Theory suggests that heightening state mindfulness in meditation practice over time increases trait mindfulness, which benefits psychological health. We prospectively examined individual trajectories of state mindfulness in meditation during a mindfulness-based intervention in relation to changes in trait mindfulness and psychological distress. Each week during the eight-week intervention, participants reported their state mindfulness in meditation after a brief mindfulness meditation. Participants also completed pre- and post-intervention measures of trait mindfulness and psychological symptoms. Tests of combined latent growth and path models suggested that individuals varied significantly in their rates of change in state mindfulness in meditation during the intervention, and that these individual trajectories predicted pre-post intervention changes in trait mindfulness and distress. These findings support that increasing state mindfulness over repeated meditation sessions may contribute to a more mindful and less distressed disposition. However, individuals’ trajectories of change may vary and warrant further investigation.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
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- Effects of Length of Mindfulness Practice on Mindfulness, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress: a Randomized Controlled Experiment (2020, background): “Furthermore, there is evidence that changes in mindfulness statistically mediate changes in at least some of these outcomes, though (as with any psychosocial program) MBPs very likely have other active ingredients also, e.g. rumination and worry (Gu et al. 2015; Kiken et al. 2015).”
- The Way Forward in Mindfulness and Sustainability: a Critical Review and Research Agenda (2020, background): “…a mindful state through meditation increases mindfulness as a trait, due to changes in the neurobiological structures in the meditator’s brain which lead to changes in neurocognitive processing (Hölzel et al. 2011; Vago and Silbersweig 2012; Kiken et al. 2015; Tang et al. 2017; Valk et al. 2017).”