Mindfulness enhancements predict aberrant salience reductions and improve stress management.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mindfulness improves mental health and clinical conditions including psychosis and modulates attentional processes including salience-the automatic direction of attention to prominent elements. Aberrant salience-the exaggerated significance attribution to perceived elements-is associated with psychotic experiences, but its interactions with mindfulness remain unexplored.

Methods

This pre-post-intervention pilot study included 21 participants completing an 8-week Mindfulness-Based Health Promotion (MBHP) course with measurements before (T0), after (T1), and three months post-course (T2). Primary outcomes were mindful attention (Mindful Attention Awareness Scale, MAAS), decentering (Experiences Questionnaire, EQ), aberrant salience (Aberrant Salience Inventory, ASI)

SUBMITTER: Wießner I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11979052 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature