Trial reportJournal of experimental psychology. General2021
Mindfulness interventions improve momentary and trait measures of attentional control: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- A meta-analytical review of the impact of mindfulness on creativity: Framing current lines of research and defining moderator variables.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Pooled it
- Mindful attention as a mechanism underlying non-suicidal self-injury: evidence from a longitudinal intervention trial.BMC psychiatry · 2026Trial
- Mindfulness training reduces slippery slope effects in moral decision-making and moral judgment.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- Linking mindfulness to phubbing among college students: a longitudinal mediation analysis of attentional control and dual-system self-control.Australian journal of psychology · 2026Article
- What participants think about learning Mindfulness-Based Programs online.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Effects of Dispositional Mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Interventions on the Psychosocial Consequences of Burn Injuries: A Systematic Review.European burn journal · 2025Review
- Feasibility Testing a Meditation App for Professionals Working With Youth in the Legal System: Protocol for a Hybrid Type 2 Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Gender Differences in Coping Strategies and Life Satisfaction Following Cognitive-Behavioral and Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Crohn's Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Self-control and bed procrastination as mediators between mindfulness and sleep quality among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Treatment condition as a moderator and change in trait mindfulness as a mediator of a brief mindfulness ecological momentary intervention for generalized anxiety disorder.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2024Article
- Exploring mechanisms of improvement in the Active Brains intervention for older adults with chronic pain and early cognitive decline.Archives of gerontology and geriatrics · 2024Article
- Explaining variation in adolescents' social media-related distraction: The role of social connectivity and disconnectivity factors.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Awareness of Behavioural Intervention Strategies in Curbing Mental Health Issues among Youth in Malaysia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Chronic Stress Is Associated with Reduced Mindful Acceptance Skills but Not with Mindful Attention Monitoring: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Mindfulness interventions have been shown to improve several subcomponents of attention; however, the psychological mechanisms driving these improvements are unknown. Mindfulness interventions train individuals to monitor present moment experiences while adopting an attitude of acceptance toward these experiences. We conducted a theoretically driven randomized controlled trial to test the putative mechanisms of mindfulness training that drive improvements in attentional control. Participants were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 conditions: (a) monitor and accept (MA) training, a standard 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) intervention that included cultivation of both monitoring and acceptance skills; (b) monitor only (MO) training, a well-matched modified 8-week MBSR-adapted intervention that focused on monitoring skills only; or (c) no treatment (NT) control. Momentary attentional control was measured via ecological momentary assessment for 3 days at baseline and postintervention. Trait attentional control was assessed at baseline and postintervention using traditional self-report. Participants also completed a dichotic listening task to assess sustained attention at baseline and postintervention. We found that MA and MO participants improved in momentary and trait attentional control (but not attention task performance) relative to NT participants. Analyses of indirect effects were consistent with the possibility that increased momentary attentional control partially accounts for MA/MO intervention-related increases in trait attentional control. This randomized controlled trial provides one of the first experimental tests of the mechanisms of mindfulness interventions that drive improvements in attention outcomes. These findings support the notion that present-focused monitoring skills training drives mindfulness intervention-related improvements in momentary attentional control, which in turn fosters greater trait attentional control. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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