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Dispositional Mindfulness Uncouples Physiological and Emotional Reactivity to a Laboratory Stressor and Emotional Reactivity to Executive Functioning Lapses in Daily Life

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Both dispositional mindfulness and mindfulness training may help to uncouple the degree to which distress is experienced in response to aversive internal experience and external events. Because emotional reactivity is a transdiagnostic process implicated in numerous psychological disorders, dispositional mindfulness and mindfulness training could exert mental health benefits, in part, by buffering emotional reactivity. The present studies examine whether dispositional mindfulness moderates two understudied processes in stress reactivity research: the degree of concordance between subjective and physiological reactivity to a laboratory stressor (study 1) and the degree of dysphoric mood reactivity to lapses in executive functioning in daily life (study 2). In both studies, lower emotional reactivity to aversive experiences was observed among individuals scoring higher in mindfulness, particularly non-judging, relative to those scoring lower in mindfulness. These findings support the hypothesis that higher dispositional mindfulness fosters lower emotional reactivity. Results are discussed in terms of implications for applying mindfulness-based interventions to a range of psychological disorders in which people have difficulty regulating emotional reactions to stress.

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The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. GF wishes to thank the Simmons College Office of the Provost and the Center for Excellence in Teaching for providing the opportunity to develop this manuscript as a participant in the 2015 Simmons Faculty Writing Retreat. JMG was supported in preparing this manuscript by Grant no. R00 AT004945 from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We thank the students in the PSY 304 seminar at Simmons (Fall 2013 and Spring 2014) for their help with data collection for study 2.

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Feldman, G., Lavallee, J., Gildawie, K. et al. Dispositional Mindfulness Uncouples Physiological and Emotional Reactivity to a Laboratory Stressor and Emotional Reactivity to Executive Functioning Lapses in Daily Life. Mindfulness 7, 527–541 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-015-0487-3

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