Hildebrandt, Lea, McCall, Cade Andrew orcid.org/0000-0003-0746-8899 and Singer, Tania (2017) Differential Effects of Attention-, Compassion-, and Socio-Cognitively Based Mental Practices on Self-Reports of Mindfulness and Compassion. Mindfulness. pp. 1488-1512. ISSN 1868-8527
Abstract
Research on the effects of mindfulness- and compassion-based interventions is flourishing along with self-report scales to assess facets of these broad concepts. However, debates remain as to which mental practices are most appropriate to develop the attentional, cognitive, and socio-affective facets of mindfulness and compassion. One crucial question is whether present-moment, attention-focused mindfulness practices are sufficient to induce a cascade of changes across the different proposed facets of mindfulness, including nonjudgmental acceptance, as well as compassion or whether explicit socio-affective training is required. Here, we address these questions in the context of a 9-month longitudinal study (the ReSource Project) by examining the differential effects of three different 3-month mental training modules on subscales of mindfulness and compassion questionnaires. The “Presence” module, which aimed at cultivating present-moment-focused attention and body awareness, led to increases in the observing, nonreacting, and presence subscales, but not to increases in acceptance or nonjudging. These latter facets benefitted from specific cultivation through the socio-cognitive “Perspective” module and socio-affective, compassion-based “Affect” module, respectively. These modules also led to further increases in scores on the subscales affected by the Presence module. Moreover, scores on the compassion scales were uniquely influenced by the Affect module. Thus, whereas a present-moment attention-focused training, as implemented in many mindfulness-based programs, was indeed able to increase attentional facets of mindfulness, only socio-cognitive and compassion-based practices led to broad changes in ethical-motivational qualities like a nonjudgmental attitude, compassion, and self-compassion.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2017. |
Keywords: | Compassion,Longitudinal design,Mindfulness,Questionnaires,Self-compassion |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2017 10:40 |
Last Modified: | 27 Dec 2024 00:09 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-017-0716-z |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s12671-017-0716-z |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:114998 |
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