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Does interacting with trustworthy people enhance mindfulness? An experience sampling study of mindfulness in everyday situations
Reina, Christopher S.
Reina, Christopher S.
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2019-04-26
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215810
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Mindfulness is known to increase after meditation interventions. But might features of our everyday situations outside of meditation not also influence our mindfulness from moment-to-moment? Drawing from psychological research on interpersonal trust, we suggest that interacting with trustworthy people could influence the expression of mindfulness. And, extending this research on trust, we further suggest that the influence of trustworthy social interactions on mindfulness could proceed through two pathways: a particularized pathway (where specific interactions that are especially high (or low) in trustworthiness have an immediate influence on mindfulness) or a generalized pathway (where the typical level of trustworthiness a person perceives across all their interactions exerts a more stable influence on their mindfulness). To explore these two pathways, study participants (N = 201) repeatedly reported their current levels of mindfulness and their prior interactions with trustworthy leaders and teammates during their everyday situations using an experience sampling protocol ( = 3,605 reports). Results from mixed-effects models provide little support for the particularized pathway: specific interactions with trustworthy leaders and teammates had little immediate association with mindfulness. The generalized pathway, however, was strongly associated with mindfulness—and remained incrementally predictive beyond relevant individual differences and features of situations. In sum, people who typically interact with more trustworthy partners may become more mindful.
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Kudesia RS, Reina CS (2019) Does interacting with trustworthy people enhance mindfulness? An experience sampling study of mindfulness in everyday situations. PLoS ONE 14(4): e0215810. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215810
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S. Kudesia, Ravi; Reina, Christopher S. (2019): Does interacting with trustworthy people enhance mindfulness? An experience sampling study of mindfulness in everyday situations. PLOS ONE. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215810
S. Kudesia, Ravi; Reina, Christopher S. (2019): Does interacting with trustworthy people enhance mindfulness? An experience sampling study of mindfulness in everyday situations. PLOS ONE. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215810
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PLOS ONE, Vol. 14, No. 4
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