ArticleInternational journal of behavioral medicine2016
Associations of Dispositional Mindfulness with Obesity and Central Adiposity: the New England Family Study.
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- Effects of Decentering on Food Craving in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Controlled Clinical Trials.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Pooled it
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- Mindfulness, mental health, and motives for eating tasty foods when not in metabolic need.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Early life disadvantage and adult adiposity: tests of sensitive periods during childhood and behavioural mediation in adulthood.International journal of epidemiology · 2019Article
- Psychometric Properties of the Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) in 15-16 Years Old Norwegian Adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Physical Fitness Levels Do Not Affect Stress Levels in a Sample of Norwegian Adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Associations of Mindfulness with Glucose Regulation and Diabetes.American journal of health behavior · 2016Article
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purposeTo evaluate whether dispositional mindfulness (defined as the ability to attend nonjudgmentally to one's own physical and mental processes) is associated with obesity and central adiposity.
methodsStudy participants (n = 394) were from the New England Family Study, a prospective birth cohort, with median age 47 years. Dispositional mindfulness was assessed using the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS). Central adiposity was assessed using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans with primary outcomes android fat mass and android/gynoid ratio. Obesity was defined as body mass index ≥30 kg/m(2).
resultsMultivariable-adjusted regression analyses demonstrated that participants with low vs. high MAAS scores were more likely to be obese (prevalence ratio for obesity = 1.34 (95 % confidence limit (CL): 1.02, 1.77)), adjusted for age, gender, race/ethnicity, birth weight, childhood socioeconomic status, and childhood intelligence. Furthermore, participants with low vs. high MAAS level had a 448 (95 % CL 39, 857) g higher android fat mass and a 0.056 (95 % CL 0.003, 0.110) greater android/gynoid fat mass ratio. Prospective analyses demonstrated that participants who were not obese in childhood and became obese in adulthood (n = 154) had -0.21 (95 % CL -0.41, -0.01; p = 0.04) lower MAAS scores than participants who were not obese in childhood or adulthood (n = 203).
conclusionsDispositional mindfulness may be inversely associated with obesity and adiposity. Replication studies are needed to adequately establish whether low dispositional mindfulness is a risk factor for obesity and adiposity.
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