the main objective of this study is identification and validation of symptoms and dimensions of organizational mindfulness in higher education. this study is a mixed research, of explanatory sequential design, and in the area of applied research. research population of qualitative part includes scholars and academics of faculties of management from public universities located in tehran from whi...

INTRODUCTION The Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale (PHLMS) is a brief questionnaire for assessing 2 key components of mindfulness: present moment awareness, and acceptance. This study was aimed at evaluating the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of PHLMS in a sample of participants with and without psychiatric conditions. MATERIAL AND METHODS The Spanish version of the PHLMS was adm...

OBJECTIVES Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic condition characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, depression, and hypocortisolism. To date, published studies have not investigated the effects of yoga on cortisol in FM. This pilot study used a time series design to evaluate pain, psychological variables, mindfulness, and cortisol in women with FM before and after a yoga intervention...

To improve the effectiveness of teaching professionalism, the authors propose introducing mindfulness practice into the dental curriculum. The qualities cultivated through mindfulness meditation practice closely resemble the global attitudes of professionalism. Professionalism and mindfulness are broad overlapping constructs with a common prosocial aim: letting go of selfish, short-sighted rewa...

BACKGROUND Psychological flexibility has been suggested as a fundamental process in health. The Psychological Inflexibility in Pain Scale (PIPS) is one of the scales employed for assessing psychological inflexibility in pain patients. The aim of this study was to validate the Spanish version of the PIPS and secondly, to compare it to two other psychological constructs, the acceptance of pain an...

Mindfulness-based approaches are increasingly employed as interventions for treating a variety of psychological, psychiatric and physical problems. Such approaches include ancient Buddhist mindfulness meditations such as Vipassana and Zen meditations, modern group-based standardized meditations, such as mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and further psyc...

purpose: psychological inflexibility and mindfulness represent two important constructs of the new generation of cognitive behavioral therapy that in recent years has attracted attention of many researchers especially in the chronic health problems area. thus, the purpose of the present study was to assess the relationships psychological inflexibility and pain acceptance with resiliency in chro...