کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5041843 1474160 2017 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Mindfulness and mind wandering: The protective effects of brief meditation in anxious individuals
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
ذهن و ذهن سرگردان: اثرات محافظتی مدیتیشن کوتاه در افراد مضطرب
کلمات کلیدی
ذهن آگاهی، مراقبه ذهنیت، گیج کننده، توجه دائمی، اضطراب، تمرکز ذهنی، آگاهی در حال حاضر،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
چکیده انگلیسی


- Meditation prevents mind wandering from increasing.
- Meditation ameliorates performance disruption during off-task thoughts.
- Mindfulness training promotes an attentional focus in the here and now.

Mind wandering can be costly, especially when we are engaged in attentionally demanding tasks. Preliminary studies suggest that mindfulness can be a promising antidote for mind wandering, albeit the evidence is mixed. To better understand the exact impact of mindfulness on mind wandering, we had a sample of highly anxious undergraduate students complete a sustained-attention task during which off-task thoughts including mind wandering were assessed. Participants were randomly assigned to a meditation or control condition, after which the sustained-attention task was repeated. In general, our results indicate that mindfulness training may only have protective effects on mind wandering for anxious individuals. Meditation prevented the increase of mind wandering over time and ameliorated performance disruption during off-task episodes. In addition, we found that the meditation intervention appeared to promote a switch of attentional focus from the internal to present-moment external world, suggesting important implications for treating worrying in anxious populations.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Consciousness and Cognition - Volume 51, May 2017, Pages 157-165
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