Higher trait mindfulness is associated with empathy but not with emotion recognition abilities.

ABSTRACT: Mindfulness involves an intentional and non-judgemental attention or awareness of present-moment experiences. It can be cultivated by meditation practice or present as an inherent disposition or trait. Higher trait mindfulness has been associated with improved emotional skills, but evidence comes primarily from studies on emotion regulation. It remains unclear whether improvements extend to other aspects of emotional processing, namely the ability to recognize emotions in others. In the current study, 107 participants (M _age = 25.48 years) completed a measure of trait mindfulness, the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, and two emotion recognition tasks. These tasks required participants to categorize emotions in facial expressions and in speech prosody (modulations of

SUBMITTER: Vilaverde RF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7481693 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature