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Mindfulness Broadens Awareness and Builds Eudaimonic Meaning: A Process Model of Mindful Positive Emotion Regulation 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Garland, Eric L.,Farb, Norman A.,R. Goldin, Philippe,Fredrickson, Barbara L.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Taylor & Francis
  • 출판년도2015
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRY
  • 발행사항Vol.26No.4[2015]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN1047-840X
  • 소개/요약Contemporary scholarship on mindfulness casts it as a form of purely non-evaluative engagement with experience. Yet, traditionally mindfulness was not intended to operate in a vacuum of dispassionate observation, but was seen as facilitative of eudaimonic mental states. In spite of this historical context, modern psychological research has neglected to ask the question of how the practice of mindfulness affects downstream emotion regulatory processes to impact the sense of meaning in life. To fill this lacuna, here we describe the Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory, from which we derive a novel process model of mindful positive emotion regulation informed by affective science, in which mindfulness is proposed to introduce flexibility in the generation of cognitive appraisals by enhancing interoceptive attention, thereby expanding the scope of cognition to facilitate reappraisal of adversity and savoring of positive experience. This process is proposed to culminate in a deepened capacity for meaning-making and greater engagement with life.