Mindfulness training reduces loneliness and increases social contact in a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Loneliness and social isolation are a growing public health concern, yet there are few evidence-based interventions for mitigating these social risk factors. Accumulating evidence suggests that mindfulness interventions can improve social-relationship processes. However, the active ingredients of mindfulness training underlying these improvements are unclear. Developing mindfulness-specific skills-namely, (i) monitoring present-moment experiences with (ii) an orientation of acceptance-may change the way people perceive and relate toward others. We predicted that developing openness and acceptance toward present experiences is critical for reducing loneliness and increasing social contact and that removing acceptance-skills training from a mindfulness intervention would elimin

SUBMITTER: Lindsay EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6397548 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature