Dispositional mindfulness: Dissociable affective and cognitive processes
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Tsai, Nancy
Treves, Isaac N.
Bauer, Clemens C. C.
Scherer, Ethan
Caballero, Camila
West, Martin R.
Gabrieli, John D. E.
Date Issued
February 1, 2024
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Springer US
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Tsai, Nancy, Treves, Isaac N., Bauer, Clemens C. C., Scherer, Ethan, Caballero, Camila et al. 2024. "Dispositional mindfulness: Dissociable affective and cognitive processes."
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Abstract
Mindfulness has been linked to a range of positive social-emotional and cognitive outcomes, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. As one of the few traits or dispositions that are associated with both affective and cognitive benefits, we asked whether mindfulness is associated with affective and cognitive outcomes through a shared, unitary process or through two dissociable processes. We examined this in adolescents using behavioral measures and also reanalyzed previously reported neuroimaging findings relating mindfulness training to either affect (negative emotion, stress) or cognition (sustained attention). Using multivariate regression analyses, our findings suggest that the relationships between dispositional mindfulness and affective and cognitive processes are behaviorally dissociable and converge with neuroimaging data indicating that mindfulness modulates affect and cognition through separate neural pathways. These findings support the benefits of trait mindfulness on both affective and cognitive processes, and reveal that those benefits are at least partly dissociable in the mind and brain.
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McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02462-y
