Observational studyPloS one2018
Dispositional mindfulness in daily life: A naturalistic observation study.
Observational study in PloS one, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- A Self-Guided Mobile Mindfulness Intervention Embedded in Daily Routines for Adults With Mild to Moderate Psychological Distress: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mental health · 2026Trial
- Improvement of medical students' stress, dispositional mindfulness, well-being and flourishing during the first academic year of a medical curriculum integrating a well-being longitudinal strand.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Cross-species conversations: the development of the AURAL-Pet coding system to capture how people talk to pets in daily life.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The paucity of morality in everyday talk.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- How an Interest in Mindfulness Influences Linguistic Markers in Online Microblogging Discourse.Mindfulness · 2023Article
- Believing in the Powers of Mindfulness: A Thematic Narrative Approach and the Development of a New Scale.Mindfulness · 2023Article
- Testing the Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory in Daily Life.Mindfulness · 2022Article
- Trait mindful awareness predicts inter-brain coupling but not individual brain responses during naturalistic face-to-face interactions.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Ways of Knowing Compassion: How Do We Come to Know, Understand, and Measure Compassion When We See It?Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- "Eavesdropping on Happiness" Revisited: A Pooled, Multisample Replication of the Association Between Life Satisfaction and Observed Daily Conversation Quantity and Quality.Psychological science · 2018Article
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Abstract
Mindfulness has seen an extraordinary rise as a scientific construct, yet surprisingly little is known about how it manifests behaviorally in daily life. The present study identifies assumptions regarding how mindfulness relates to behavior and contrasts them against actual behavioral manifestations of trait mindfulness in daily life. Study 1 (N = 427) shows that mindfulness is assumed to relate to emotional positivity, quality social interactions, prosocial orientation and attention to sensory perceptions. In Study 2, 185 participants completed a gold-standard, self-reported mindfulness measure (the FFMQ) and underwent naturalistic observation sampling to assess their daily behaviors. Trait mindfulness was robustly related to a heightened perceptual focus in conversations. However, it was not related to behavioral and speech markers of emotional positivity, quality social interactions, or prosocial orientation. These findings suggest that the subjective and self-reported experience of being mindful in daily life is expressed primarily through sharpened perceptual attention, rather than through other behavioral or social differences. This highlights the need for ecological models of how dispositional mindfulness "works" in daily life, and raises questions about the measurement of mindfulness.
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