How mindfulness training promotes positive emotions: Dismantling acceptance skills training in two randomized controlled trials.

ABSTRACT: Mindfulness meditation interventions-which train skills in monitoring present-moment experiences with a lens of acceptance-have shown promise for increasing positive emotions. Using a theory-based approach, we hypothesized that learning acceptance skills in mindfulness interventions helps people notice more positive experiences in daily life, and tested whether removing acceptance training from mindfulness interventions would eliminate intervention-related boosts in positive affect. In 2 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of stressed community adults, mindfulness skills were dismantled into 2 structurally equivalent interventions: (a) training in both monitoring and acceptance (Monitor + Accept) and (b) training in monitoring only (Monitor Only) without acceptance training. Study 1 tested

SUBMITTER: Lindsay EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6296247 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature