A Multilevel Approach to Explore the Wandering Mind and Its Connections with Mindfulness and Personality.

ABSTRACT: We propose an innovative approach to study Mind Wandering (MW), and we present an application of this methodology to study the effects of a Mindfulness-Oriented Meditation (MOM) training. We assessed individuals' MW through a free association task and an attentional task with thought-probes combined with a questionnaire for the phenomenological characteristic of each MW episode. We used the Temperament and Character Inventory to assess participants' personality traits and their associations with measures of MW. Our study was limited by the course of the Covid-19 pandemic and only nine healthy young individuals completed the testing sessions, which were carried out before and after the MOM training. After MOM, participants showed fewer repetitive and self-relevant thoughts and indices of be

SUBMITTER: Cantone D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8469085 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature