Mechanisms of Action in the Inverse Relationship Between Mindfulness and Psychological Distress

By Kimberly A. Coffey, M. Hartman. 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Empathy, Sympathy, and Pity: 21st-Century Definitions and Implications for Practice and Research (2011, methodology): “The mindfulness needed to distinguish between empathy and sympathy has already been shown to be a useful strategy for cultivating the cognitive skills required to be fully empathic ( Coffey & Hartman, 2008 ; Decety & Lamm, 2006 ).”
Dispositional mindfulness and life satisfaction: The role of core self-evaluations (2014, background): “…to the development of emotional intelligence, thereby encouraging individuals to accurately perceive emotions and effectively regulate emotions that promote their life satisfaction (e.g., Coffey & Hartman, 2008; Coffey, Hartman, & Fredrickson, 2010; Schutte & Malouff, 2011; Wang & Kong, 2013).”
What are the benefits of mindfulness? A practice review of psychotherapy-related research. (2011, background): “Mindfulness meditation has been shown to improve well-being (Carmody & Baer, 2008) and reduce psychological distress (Coffey & Hartman, 2008; Ostafin et al., 2006).”
TEACHING EMPATHY: A FRAMEWORK ROOTED IN SOCIAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (2011, background): “Mindfulness practices have proved to be empirically driven and effective interventions in social work (Coffey & Hartman, 2008).”
Relating Mindfulness, Heartfulness, and Psychological Well-Being: the Role of Self-Compassion and Gratitude (2018, methodology): “…both in a sample of individuals with experience of meditation practices (meditators) and in a sample of non- meditators, relying first on models with observable variables, then on latent variable models, to estimate unbiased paths, as suggested in the literature (e.g. Cole and Preacher 2014).”
Benefits of mindfulness at work: the role of mindfulness in emotion regulation, emotional exhaustion, and job satisfaction. (2013, background): “…has witnessed a number of theoretical advances on (e.g., Bishop et al., 2004; Glomb et al., 2011; Shapiro et al., 2006) and a few empirical tests of (e.g., Allen & Kiburz, 2012; Coffey & Hartman, 2008; Weinstein et al., 2009) potential mechanisms underlying the salutary effects of mindfulness.”
Deconstructing Mindfulness and Constructing Mental Health: Understanding Mindfulness and its Mechanisms of Action (2010, methodology): “(and confirmed in Step 1 of Study 2) with the model Coffey and Hartman (2008) proposed and tested for mindfulness’ mechanisms of action.”
The Assessment of Mindfulness with Self-Report Measures: Existing Scales and Open Issues (2013, background): “Currently, researchers increasingly concentrate on the mechanisms through which mindfulness exerts positive influences on mental and physical well-being (Coffey and Hartman 2008; Crane et al. 2010; Shapiro et al. 2006; Williams et al. 2011).”
Mindfulness and Teachers’ Coping in the Classroom: A Developmental Model of Teacher Stress, Coping, and Everyday Resilience (2016, background): “By promoting an attitude of acceptance, mindfulness is also thought to reduce rumination, which seems to result from an inability to disengage from desired but unobtainable goals (Coffey & Hartman, 2008; Feldman et al., 2007; Shapiro, Oman, Thoresen, Plante, & Flinders, 2008).”
Sensory-Processing Sensitivity, dispositional mindfulness and negative psychological symptoms (2012, background): “Mindfulness in the present day is generally referred to as an enhanced attention to, and awareness of, present experience – moment-by-moment – in an open and accepting way (Brown & Ryan, 2003; Coffey & Hartman, 2008; Davis & Hayes, 2011).”
Dispositional mindfulness: A critical review of construct validation research. (2016, neutral): “…Sawyer, Witt, & Oh, 2010; Keng, Smoski, & Robins, 2011; Smith, Richardson, Hoffman, & Pilkington, 2005) and dispositional mindfulness (e.g., Coffey & Hartman, 2008; Creswell, Way, Eisenberger, & Lieberman, 2007; Howell, Digdon, Buro, & Sheptycki, 2008; Lakey, Campbell, Brown, & Goodie,…”