The mindful gaze: trait mindful people under an instructed emotion regulation goal selectively attend to positive stimuli.

ABSTRACT: Trait mindfulness confers emotional benefits and encourages skillful emotion regulation, in part because it helps people more deliberately attend to internal experiences and external surroundings. Such heightened attentional control might help skillfully deploy one's attention towards certain kinds of stimuli, which may in turn help regulate emotions, but this remains unknown. Testing how trait mindful people deploy attention when regulating their emotions could help uncover the specific mechanisms of mindfulness that confer its emotional benefits. The present study aimed to determine whether high trait mindfulness is associated with sustained attention biases to (i.e. longer gaze at) emotional scenes, when all participants are given the emotion regulation goal of staying in a positive moo

SUBMITTER: Raila H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11003715 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature