Positive Reappraisal Mediates the Stress-Reductive Effects of Mindfulness: An Upward Spiral Process

By Eric L. Garland, S. Gaylord, Barbara L. Fredrickson. 2011

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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A Conservation of Resources Perspective on Negative Affect and Innovative Work Behaviour: the Role of Affect Activation and Mindfulness (2016, unknown): “…is, the cognitive shift engendered by the state of mindfulness facilitates the ascription of newmeaning to the internal or external events that have engendered unhappiness and despair (Garland et al. 2011), such that these events are reframed inmeaningful or evenmore positive terms (Folkman 1997).”
Deconstructing Mindfulness and Constructing Mental Health: Understanding Mindfulness and its Mechanisms of Action (2010, background): “Future studies might investigate other possible mechanisms of action in this relationship, such as exposure and desensitization to unpleasant emotional experiences (Baer 2003; Brown et al. 2007; Shapiro et al. 2006), decentering (also called reperceiving or deautomatization; Baer 2003; Brown et al. ”
Associations Between Mindfulness, Psychological Well-Being, and Subjective Well-Being with Respect to Contemplative Practice (2014, unknown): “…mindfulness and well-being has received considerable empirical and theoretical attention in the scientific literature, with researchers hypothesizing a number of ways in which the two interact (Chambers et al. 2009; Farb et al. 2012; Garland et al. 2011; Hölzel et al. 2011; Shapiro et al. 2006).”
Mindfulness Broadens Awareness and Builds Eudaimonic Meaning: A Process Model of Mindful Positive Emotion Regulation (2015, background): “…that increases in dispositional mindfulness over the course of mindfulness training correlated with increases in positive reappraisal, and that the stress-reductive effects of increases in dispositional mindfulness were partially mediated by increases in positive reappraisal (Garland et al., 2011).”
How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective (2011, unknown): “A very recent self-report study showed that mindfulness practice leads to increases in positive reappraisal and that these increases mediate an improvement in stress levels (Garland et al., 2011).”
Mindfulness, Work Climate, and Psychological Need Satisfaction in Employee Well-being (2015, background): “Garland et al. (2011) demonstrated a salutary, upward spiral between mindfulness and adaptive coping in which mindful states promoted a more adaptive coping style, and this more objective appraisal style, in turn, increased mindfulness.”
Mechanisms of Change in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: Self-Compassion and Mindfulness as Mediators of Intervention Outcomes (2012, unknown): “decreases in perceived stress, psychological distress, depression, anxiety, rumination, and worry (Anderson et al., 2007; Bränström et al., 2010; Campbell et al., 2012; Carmody et al., 2008; Dobkin & Zhao, 2011; Garland et al., 2011; Gayner et al., 2012; Gross et al., 2010; Hölzel et al., 2011; Jens”