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Delineating the contributions of sustained attention and working memory to individual differences in mindfulness 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Ruocco, A. C.,Direkoglu, E.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam
  • 출판년도2013
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Personality and individual differences
  • 발행사항Vol.54No.2[2013]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN0191-8869
  • 소개/요약Mindfulness can be deconstructed into two constituent components: present-moment awareness and acceptance. Attention and working memory are theorized to contribute to individual differences in trait mindfulness, although the precise relationship among these constructs remains unclear. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the association of neurocognitive indices of attention and working memory with a bidimensional trait measure of mindfulness. Fifty-five psychiatrically and neurologically healthy adults completed the Conners Continuous Performance Test, Penn Letter N-back Test, and Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale. Results indicated that present-moment awareness was associated with a response speed variability measure of sustained attention, whereas acceptance was more strongly linked to working memory efficiency, even after accounting for general intellectual ability. These findings suggest that sustained attention and working memory capacities may differentially subserve individual differences in present-moment awareness and acceptance, thereby illuminating our understanding of the cognitive mechanisms which may underlie trait mindfulness.