Exploring the Role of Meditation and Dispositional Mindfulness on Social Cognition Domains: A Controlled Study
Research suggests that mindfulness can induce changes in the social domain, such as enhancing emotional connection to others, prosocial behavior, and empathy. However, despite growing interest in mindfulness in social psychology, very little is known about the effects of mindfulness on social cognit...
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| author | Daniel Campos Daniel Campos Marta Modrego-Alarcón Marta Modrego-Alarcón Marta Modrego-Alarcón Yolanda López-del-Hoyo Yolanda López-del-Hoyo Yolanda López-del-Hoyo Manuel González-Panzano William Van Gordon Edo Shonin Mayte Navarro-Gil Mayte Navarro-Gil Javier García-Campayo Javier García-Campayo Javier García-Campayo Javier García-Campayo |
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| description | Research suggests that mindfulness can induce changes in the social domain, such as enhancing emotional connection to others, prosocial behavior, and empathy. However, despite growing interest in mindfulness in social psychology, very little is known about the effects of mindfulness on social cognition. Consequently, the aim of this study was to explore the relationship between mindfulness and social cognition by comparing meditators with non-meditators on several social cognition measures. A total of 60 participants (meditators, n = 30; non-meditators, n = 30) were matched on sex, age, and ethnic group, and then asked to complete the following assessment measures: Mindful Awareness Attention Scale (MAAS), Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Short Form (FFMQ-SF), Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), Revised Eyes Test, Hinting Task, Ambiguous Intentions and Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Psychiatry (SCIP). The results showed that meditators reported higher empathy (except for the personal distress subscale), higher emotional recognition, higher theory of mind (ToM), and lower hostile attributional style/bias. The findings also demonstrated that dispositional mindfulness (both total score assessed with MAAS and mindfulness facets using the FFMQ) was associated with social cognition, although it was not equally correlated with all social cognition outcomes, and correlation patterns differ when analyses were conducted separately for meditators and non-meditators. In addition, results showed potential predictors for each social cognition variable, highlighting non-reactivity to inner experience as a key component of mindfulness in order to explain social cognition performance. In summary, the findings indicated that the meditator sample performed better on certain qualities (i.e., empathy, emotional recognition, ToM, hostile attributional style/bias) in comparison to non-meditators and, furthermore, support the notion that mindfulness is related to social cognition, which may have implications for the design of mindfulness-based approaches for use in clinical and non-clinical settings. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7f7d209de5224130926e96d66579a8e82022-12-21T20:35:44ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782019-04-011010.3389/fpsyg.2019.00809416871Exploring the Role of Meditation and Dispositional Mindfulness on Social Cognition Domains: A Controlled StudyDaniel Campos0Daniel Campos1Marta Modrego-Alarcón2Marta Modrego-Alarcón3Marta Modrego-Alarcón4Yolanda López-del-Hoyo5Yolanda López-del-Hoyo6Yolanda López-del-Hoyo7Manuel González-Panzano8William Van Gordon9Edo Shonin10Mayte Navarro-Gil11Mayte Navarro-Gil12Javier García-Campayo13Javier García-Campayo14Javier García-Campayo15Javier García-Campayo16Laboratorio de Psicología y Tecnología, Department of Basic Psychology, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de La Plana, SpainInstituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón, IIS Aragón, Zaragoza, SpainInstituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón, IIS Aragón, Zaragoza, SpainDepartment of Medicine, Psychiatry and Dermatology, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, SpainPrimary Care Prevention and Health Promotion Research Network, Madrid, SpainInstituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón, IIS Aragón, Zaragoza, SpainDepartment of Medicine, Psychiatry and Dermatology, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, SpainPrimary Care Prevention and Health Promotion Research Network, Madrid, SpainDepartment of Medicine, Psychiatry and Dermatology, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, SpainHuman Sciences Research Centre, University of Derby, Derby, United KingdomAwake to Wisdom Centre for Meditation and Mindfulness Research, Ragusa, ItalyInstituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón, IIS Aragón, Zaragoza, SpainDepartment of Medicine, Psychiatry and Dermatology, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, SpainInstituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón, IIS Aragón, Zaragoza, SpainDepartment of Medicine, Psychiatry and Dermatology, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, SpainPrimary Care Prevention and Health Promotion Research Network, Madrid, SpainUniversity Hospital Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, SpainResearch suggests that mindfulness can induce changes in the social domain, such as enhancing emotional connection to others, prosocial behavior, and empathy. However, despite growing interest in mindfulness in social psychology, very little is known about the effects of mindfulness on social cognition. Consequently, the aim of this study was to explore the relationship between mindfulness and social cognition by comparing meditators with non-meditators on several social cognition measures. A total of 60 participants (meditators, n = 30; non-meditators, n = 30) were matched on sex, age, and ethnic group, and then asked to complete the following assessment measures: Mindful Awareness Attention Scale (MAAS), Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Short Form (FFMQ-SF), Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), Revised Eyes Test, Hinting Task, Ambiguous Intentions and Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Psychiatry (SCIP). The results showed that meditators reported higher empathy (except for the personal distress subscale), higher emotional recognition, higher theory of mind (ToM), and lower hostile attributional style/bias. The findings also demonstrated that dispositional mindfulness (both total score assessed with MAAS and mindfulness facets using the FFMQ) was associated with social cognition, although it was not equally correlated with all social cognition outcomes, and correlation patterns differ when analyses were conducted separately for meditators and non-meditators. In addition, results showed potential predictors for each social cognition variable, highlighting non-reactivity to inner experience as a key component of mindfulness in order to explain social cognition performance. In summary, the findings indicated that the meditator sample performed better on certain qualities (i.e., empathy, emotional recognition, ToM, hostile attributional style/bias) in comparison to non-meditators and, furthermore, support the notion that mindfulness is related to social cognition, which may have implications for the design of mindfulness-based approaches for use in clinical and non-clinical settings.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00809/fullmindfulnessmeditationsocial cognitionempathyemotional recognitiontheory of mind |
| spellingShingle | Daniel Campos Daniel Campos Marta Modrego-Alarcón Marta Modrego-Alarcón Marta Modrego-Alarcón Yolanda López-del-Hoyo Yolanda López-del-Hoyo Yolanda López-del-Hoyo Manuel González-Panzano William Van Gordon Edo Shonin Mayte Navarro-Gil Mayte Navarro-Gil Javier García-Campayo Javier García-Campayo Javier García-Campayo Javier García-Campayo Exploring the Role of Meditation and Dispositional Mindfulness on Social Cognition Domains: A Controlled Study Frontiers in Psychology mindfulness meditation social cognition empathy emotional recognition theory of mind |
| title | Exploring the Role of Meditation and Dispositional Mindfulness on Social Cognition Domains: A Controlled Study |
| title_full | Exploring the Role of Meditation and Dispositional Mindfulness on Social Cognition Domains: A Controlled Study |
| title_fullStr | Exploring the Role of Meditation and Dispositional Mindfulness on Social Cognition Domains: A Controlled Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the Role of Meditation and Dispositional Mindfulness on Social Cognition Domains: A Controlled Study |
| title_short | Exploring the Role of Meditation and Dispositional Mindfulness on Social Cognition Domains: A Controlled Study |
| title_sort | exploring the role of meditation and dispositional mindfulness on social cognition domains a controlled study |
| topic | mindfulness meditation social cognition empathy emotional recognition theory of mind |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00809/full |
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