Mindfulness : A proposed operational definition

By Scott R. Bishop, Mark A. Lau, Shauna L. Shapiro, Linda E. Carlson, Nicole D. Anderson, James Carmody, Z. Segal, Susan E. Abbey, M. Speca, Drew Velting and 1 more. 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Impacts of the CARE for Teachers Program on Teachers’ Social and Emotional Competence and Classroom Interactions (2017, background): “In order to further refine this definition for research purposes, Bishop et al. (2004) conceptualized mindfulness as involving two primary dimensions: (a) directing one’s attention to the present moment and (b) cultivating an orientation to one’s experience marked by curiosity, openness, and…”
Leading Mindfully: Two Studies on the Influence of Supervisor Trait Mindfulness on Employee Well-Being and Performance (2012, positive): “Recent years have witnessed a steady increase in empirical research on mindfulness facilitated to a large extent by the development of self-report scales that allow inexpensive and convenient assessment of trait mindfulness (e.g., Baer et al. 2006; Brown and Ryan 2003; for a criticism of such…”
Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ): Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Psychometric Properties of the French Translation (2006, background): “From a clinical viewpoint, acceptance is considered to be an adaptive strategy (Bishop et al., 2004) whereas passive resignation is a less adaptive coping strategy because people experience a sense of helplessness in the face of a situation that cannot be changed.”
Leader Mindfulness and Employee Performance: A Sequential Mediation Model of LMX Quality, Interpersonal Justice, and Employee Stress (2018, neutral): “Organizational interest in mindfulness—which can be defined as an open, present-centered awareness and attention (Bishop et al. 2006; Brown et al. 2007)—has increased significantly over recent years.”
Surfing the urge: Experiential acceptance moderates the relation between automatic alcohol motivation and hazardous drinking (2008, neutral): “Mindfulness is often defined as including both greater acceptance and awareness of internal experience (Bishop et al., 2004; Kabat–Zinn, 2003).”
Relationships between mindfulness, flow dispositions and mental skills adoption: A cluster analytic approach. (2008, methodology): “While we borrowed the conceptualizations of mindfulness provided by Bishop et al. (2004) as the overarching theoretical framework, individual differences in terms of mindfulness propensities are assessed based on Bodner and Langer’s (2001) work on mindfulness.”
Contemplating Mindfulness at Work (2016, background): ““decentered perspective” (Bishop et al., 2004) in response to these stressful external events (i.”
Benefits of mindfulness at work: the role of mindfulness in emotion regulation, emotional exhaustion, and job satisfaction. (2013, background): “Notably, however, the mindfulness literature suggests that emotion regulation is not the only mechanisms underlying the mindfulness–well-being relationship (Bishop et al., 2004; Glomb et al., 2011; Shapiro et al., 2006).”
Mindfulness for Long-Distance Runners: An Open Trial Using Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE) (2009, neutral): “Enhanced mindfulness encourages individuals to become more open, aware of, and accepting of their experiences (Bishop et al., 2004).”
Letting Go: Mindfulness and Negative Automatic Thinking (2008, background): “Specifically, cognitive theories of mindfulness have defined this construct as both an attentional state (Bishop et al., 2004) and trait variable, the latter varying in terms of the frequency with which different individuals experience states of mindfulness (Baer, Smith, & Allen, 2004; Brown & Ryan,”
Mind The Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation (2017, neutral): “Although concerted efforts have been made to provide consensus descriptions of mindfulness (Analayo, 2003; Bishop et al., 2004; Bodhi, 2011; Brown, Ryan, & Creswell, 2007; Grabovac, Lau, & Willett, 2011; Gunaratana, 2002; Hölzel et al., 2011; Malinowski, 2013; S. L. Shapiro, Carlson, Astin, &…”
Mind wandering and attention during focused meditation: A fine-grained temporal analysis of fluctuating cognitive states (2012, positive): “, Gunaratana, 2002; Wallace, 2006), and an interdisciplinary scientific discussion has recently developed surrounding the possible cognitive and physiological mechanisms of meditation in light of its potential benefit for mental and physical health (Bishop et al., 2004; Chiesa and Serretti, 2010; Ch”
How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective (2011, positive): “Mindfulness meditation has been reported to produce beneficial effects on a number of psychiatric, functional somatic, and stress-related symptoms and has therefore increasingly been incorporated into psychotherapeutic programs (cf., Baer, 2003; Grossman, Niemann, Schmidt, & Walach, 2004).”