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The Impact of Mindfulness and Perspective-Taking on Implicit Associations Toward the Elderly: a Relational Frame Theory Account 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Edwards, D. J.,McEnteggart, C.,Barnes-Holmes, Y.,Lowe, R.,Evans, N.,Vilardaga, R.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Springer Science + Business Media
  • 출판년도2017
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Mindfulness
  • 발행사항Vol.8No.6[2017]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN1868-8527
  • 소개/요약Perspective-taking interventions have been shown to improve attitudes toward social outgroups. In contrast, similar interventions have produced opposite effects (i.e., enhanced negativity) in the context of attitudes to elderly groups. The current study investigated whether a brief perspective-taking intervention enhanced with mindfulness would be associated with less negativity than perspective-taking alone. One hundred and five participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions which comprised of an active or control perspective-taking component and an active or control mindfulness component. Participants were then administered an Implicit Associated Test to assess implicit biases toward the elderly. Results supported previous findings in that the condition in which perspective-taking was active but mindfulness was inactive was associated with greater negative implicit bias toward the elderly, however, some of this negativity decreased in the active perspective-taking and active mindfulness condition. The current findings and other mixed effects that have emerged from perspective-taking interventions are discussed from a Relational Frame Theory perspective.