ArticleNature reviews psychology2022
A common factors perspective on mindfulness-based interventions.
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- Does it matter how meditation feels? An experience sampling study.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2024Trial
- The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Enhancing Psychological Well-Being in Athletes: A Scoping Review of Randomised Controlled Trials.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Longitudinal and dynamic associations of engagement in mindfulness training with emotion regulation difficulties, mindfulness, and self-compassion in community adolescents.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2026Article
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- Intervention-induced changes in state mindfulness do not predict trait changes in mindfulness, self-compassion, or perceived stress.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Embodied Mindfulness Through Movement: A Scoping Review of Dance-Based Interventions for Mental Well-Being in Recreational Populations.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Mindfulness practice time and quality in veterans with chronic pain.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Tourette Syndrome: Current Status and Future Directions.The Psychiatric clinics of North America · 2025Review
- Is dosage of a meditation app associated with changes in psychological distress? It depends on how you ask.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
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Abstract
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have entered mainstream Western culture in the past four decades. There are now dozens of MBIs with varying degrees of empirical support and a variety of mindfulness-specific psychological mechanisms have been proposed to account for the beneficial effects of MBIs. Although it has long been acknowledged that non-specific or common factors might contribute to MBI efficacy, relatively little empirical work has directly investigated these aspects. In this Perspective, I suggest that situating MBIs within the broader psychotherapy research literature and emphasizing the commonalities rather than differences between MBIs and other treatments might help guide future MBI research. To that end, I summarize the evidence for MBI efficacy and several MBI-specific psychological mechanisms, contextualize MBI findings within the broader psychotherapy literature from a common factors perspective, and propose suggestions for future research based on innovations and challenges occurring within psychotherapy research.
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