The Difficulty of Defining Mindfulness: Current Thought and Critical Issues

By A. Chiesa. 2013

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

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Mindfulness, Moral Reasoning and Responsibility: Towards Virtue in Ethical Decision-Making (2019, background): “Mindfulness, which denotes a non-judgemental and present way of giving attention (Chiesa 2012), has recently been linked to ethics (Amaro 2015; Lindahl 2015; Verhaeghen 2015) and ethical decision-making (Craft 2013; Eisenbeiss and Knippenberg 2015; Pandey et al.”
Assessment of mindfulness by self-report. (2018, neutral): “[7] Chiesa A: The difficulty of defining mindfulness: Current thought and critical issues.”
Buddhist-Derived Loving-Kindness and Compassion Meditation for the Treatment of Psychopathology: a Systematic Review (2015, methodology): “The operationalization of mindfulness meditation has been hindered by difficulties in defining the mindfulness construct (Chiesa 2013), and it is probable that confusion in terms of what actually constitutes LKM and CM practice will generate similar problems.”
Mindfulness Training for Teachers Changes the Behavior of Their Preschool Students (2013, background): “At present, there is limited agreement on the concept and definition of mindfulness as used in Western psychology (Chiesa, 2012; Grossman & Van Dam, 2011; Singh, Lancioni, Wahler, Winton, & Singh, 2008).”
Mindfulness-based stress reduction for healthy individuals: A meta-analysis. (2015, background): “Even though a consensus about an unequivocal operational definition of mindfulness is lacking so far [12,13], one of most commonly employed definitions”
Mindfulness and acceptance approaches to sporting performance enhancement: a systematic review (2017, background): “Similarly, there is discord regarding the measurement of mindfulness, such as whether it is unidimensional or multi-dimensional, and if multi-dimensional, which dimensions are INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY 141 important (Chiesa, 2013).”
The emerging role of Buddhism in clinical psychology: Toward effective integration. (2014, background): “It is arguable that the most commonly reported integration issue relating to MBIs is that there remains a lack of consensus within psychology in terms of what defines the mindfulness construct (see Chiesa, 2013; Kang & Whittingham, 2010).”
The Way Forward in Mindfulness and Sustainability: a Critical Review and Research Agenda (2020, background): “…mindfulness literature regarding sustainability has been dominated by those studying mindfulness in the context of emotional intelligence (Ciarrochi and Godsell 2013) and those inquiring about ‘creative mindfulness’ and social sustainability issues such as social justice, poverty…”
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) enhances distress tolerance and resilience through changes in mindfulness (2016, background): “This disparity may partly be explained by the still diverging definitions of mindfulness (Bishop et al., 2004; Grossman, 2008), and the use of measures that vary conceptually between mindfulness as a one factor model versus a multi-facet construct (Chiesa, 2013).”
Mindfulness Revisited (2015, background): “However, recent reviews in the clinical and contemplative neuroscience literatures point to large differences and disparities in the way mindfulness is conceptualized, operationalized, and practiced (Chiesa, 2012; Chiesa & Malinowski, 2011; Dorjee, 2010; Grossman, 2008, 2011; Malinowski, 2008; S. St”