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Mindfulness in Daily Life: a Multidimensional Approach

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Trait mindfulness is often conceptualized to comprise multiple facets such as attention to and acceptance of present-moment experiences. State mindfulness however is mostly conceptualized as unidimensional. As research on trait mindfulness indicates that differentiating aspects of mindfulness deepens our understanding of its associations with well-being, we tested the presence of four facets at both, the trait and the state level: acting with awareness, nonjudgmental acceptance, present-moment attention, and nonreactivity. Via an experience-sampling technology, 70 participants (aged 20–30 years, 50% female) reported their state mindfulness six times a day for several days. In multiple multilevel confirmatory factor analyses, three of the four facets were corroborated at both levels of analysis. The final three-factor model including acting with awareness, nonjudgmental acceptance, and present-moment attention was superior to a one-factor model implying that state mindfulness can be conceptualized as multidimensional. A multidimensional state assessment will likely be informative for future research questions.

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Acknowledgements

This research was funded by a grant awarded to Annette Brose (Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group) by the German Research Foundation [Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG], BR 3782/3-1.

We thank Denise Braul, Kathrin Paal, Mirjam J. Schmidt, and Laura Scholaske for their help with the data collection. Many thanks to Mirjam J. Schmidt and Julia Delius for editorial assistance. We would also like to express our gratitude to our participants.

Selected results were presented as a poster at the 31st International Congress of Psychology in Yokohama, Japan, in July 2016. Furthermore, selected results were presented at the 50th Conference of the German Society for Psychology in Leipzig, Germany, in September 2016.

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Blanke, E.S., Brose, A. Mindfulness in Daily Life: a Multidimensional Approach. Mindfulness 8, 737–750 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-016-0651-4

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