Journal article
Distinguishing the cognitive processes of mindfulness: Developing a standardised mindfulness technique for use in longitudinal randomised control trials
Consciousness and Cognition, Vol.52, pp.75-92
2017
Abstract
A capacity model of mindfulness is adopted to differentiate the cognitive faculty of mindfulness from the metacognitive processes required to cultivate this faculty in mindfulness training. The model provides an explanatory framework incorporating both the developmental progression from focussed attention to open monitoring styles of mindfulness practice, along with the development of equanimity and insight. A standardised technique for activating these processes without the addition of secondary components is then introduced. Mindfulness-based interventions currently available for use in randomised control trials introduce components ancillary to the cognitive processes of mindfulness, limiting their ability to draw clear causative inferences. The standardised technique presented here does not introduce such ancillary factors, rendering it a valuable tool with which to investigate the processes activated in mindfulness practice.
Details
- Title
- Distinguishing the cognitive processes of mindfulness: Developing a standardised mindfulness technique for use in longitudinal randomised control trials
- Authors
- Benjamin Isbel (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and LawMathew J Summers (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
- Publication details
- Consciousness and Cognition, Vol.52, pp.75-92
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Date published
- 2017
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.concog.2017.04.019
- ISSN
- 1053-8100
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Thompson Institute; School of Health - Psychology; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451067902621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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