The search for scientific meaning in mindfulness research: Insights from a scoping review.

ABSTRACT: There are on-going debates about what is and is not 'mindfulness'. These debates are stifling rigorous academic research as scientific precision is a precursor to shared meaning. While mindfulness is a growing field of research, these divergent and conflated meanings are limiting deeper interdisciplinary research. Interventions designed in one practice context may not be useful in other contexts because meaning is not transferred between settings. This review clarifies the various research domains that study mindfulness and the conceptual and operational definitions in each domain. This two-stage study comprises a scoping review of mindfulness classifications and a comparative content mapping of mindfulness studies from 2015 to 2021. The initial comprehensive search strategy followed the p

SUBMITTER: Phan-Le NT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9067662 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature