Mindfulness: Cognitive and Emotional Change

Mindfulness: Cognitive and Emotional Change

Beck [1] developed cognitive therapy which led to broad therapeutic innovations and successful applications in the field of psychotherapy [2-4]. Mostly, by virtue of its linear nature and lack of empirical support from cognitive science, this clinically-driven model faced some limitations in practice [5]. To overcome the shortcomings, Teasdale and Barnard [6] experimentally investigated the lin...

Mindfulness meditation and reduced emotional interference on a cognitive task

The effect of mindfulness meditation (MM) on attentional control in emotional contexts was examined. In Study 1, MM practitioners (N = 28) categorized tones presented 1 or 4 s following the onset of affective pictures. Reaction times (RTs) to tones for affective minus neutral pictures provided an index of emotional interference. Participants with more MM experience showed less interference from...

Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness

Mindfulness 1 Running Head: MINDFULNESS AND EMOTIONAL REGULATION Mindfulness and its relationship to emotional regulation

Research on the effectiveness and mechanisms of mindfulness training applied in psychotherapy is still in its infancy (Erisman & Roemer, 2010). For instance, little is known about the extent and processes through which mindfulness practice improves emotion regulation. This experience sampling study assessed the relationship between mindfulness, emotion differentiation, emotion lability, and emo...

Effectiveness of Cognitive Mindfulness-based-Therapy on Resilience and Emotional Control of Psychiatric Veteran’s Wives

Aims: Psychiatric veterans’ wives are exposed to psychological damages due to their husbands’ specific condition. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive mindfulness-based-therapy on resilience and emotional control of psychiatric veteran’s wives. Materials and Methods:  The present study was a semi-experimental design with a pretest, post-test design with...