Psychological effects and mechanisms of mindfulness and compassion programs: a study using an emotional attentional blink task and network analysis
Social and scientific interest in meditation effects has increased exponentially over the past three decades (Bernstein et al., 2019). The rising popularity of meditation practices may be best explained by the well-validated standardized formats of the Meditation-Based Programs (MBPs; Creswell, 2017...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/11641 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/11641 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 2-583(043.2) Meditation Mindfulness Compassion meditation Emotional attention Attentional Blink Network analysis Práctica de meditación Práctica de compasión Atención emocional Parpadeo Atencional Análisis de redes Psicología de la religión 5101.10 Religión |
| Sumario: | Social and scientific interest in meditation effects has increased exponentially over the past three decades (Bernstein et al., 2019). The rising popularity of meditation practices may be best explained by the well-validated standardized formats of the Meditation-Based Programs (MBPs; Creswell, 2017). However, the scope of scientific research has been focused almost exclusively on mindfulness meditation, whereas other forms of meditation have not received the scientific attention they deserve (Dahl & Davidson, 2019), as is the case of compassion meditation (Kirby et al., 2017). Although research on compassion meditation is still scarce, some studies suggest that mindfulness and compassion meditation may yield different psychological effects and mechanisms (Brito-Pons et al., 2018; Fox et al., 2016; Singer & Engert, 2019). Despite the wide range of research on meditation benefits to date, few studies have attempted to empirically examine the mechanisms of change through which meditation produces its effects (Van Dam et al., 2018). Thus, we still do not know exactly how and why meditation works. Theoretical and empirical models of meditation have emphasized the central role of attentional control as the entry door for the rest of the mechanisms (Malinowski, 2013; Tang et al., 2015). More specifically, the study of attentional bias towards emotional stimuli is postulated as a key mechanism for understanding the effects of meditation practice on psychological distress and well-being (De Raedt et al., 2012; Garland et al., 2015a; Kiken & Shook, 2012; Vago & Nakamura, 2011). Despite widespread agreement on the need to expand research on underlying mechanisms of change in psychological interventions, the adequacy of standard statistical approaches to analyze such mechanisms is under debate (Hofmann et al., 2020). As an alternative to traditional mediation models (Hayes, 2009), the relationship between the outcomes and mechanisms of change can be also studied using a network approach (Borsboom & Cramer, 2013). The network approach may be particularly informative of structural psychological changes within individuals after participating in a standardized meditation program... |
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