Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Abstract
Recent research has shown that people can effectively cope with work stress using mindfulness. Mindfulness has been shown to decrease perceived stress levels (Carmody & Baer, 2008; Jensen et al., 2012; Rich et al., 2021; Schulte-Frankenfeld & Trautwein, 2022), anxiety (Gál et al., 2021, Farb et al., 2010), and depression (Bostock et al., 2019; Farb et al., 2010). The purpose of this study is to replicate and extend the work of Stremic (2020), who created the Mindfulness Skill Scale (MSS). Stremic (2020) argued that mindfulness should be best measured as a skill that can be learned, so she developed the MSS to measure mindfulness skill. Currently, much of the literature defines and operationalizes mindfulness as a state (Brown et al., 2007) or trait (Michel et al., 2021). I propose to examine changes in mindfulness after a mindfulness meditation intervention. I predict that mindfulness when measured as a skill will change but when measured as a state or trait will not change. Additionally, I propose to examine whether mindfulness skill following a mindfulness intervention correlates more strongly with a variety of outcomes than state or trait mindfulness.
Subject
Industrial and organizational psychology
Document Type
posters
Language
English
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License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Included in
Validation of the Mindfulness Skill Scale
Recent research has shown that people can effectively cope with work stress using mindfulness. Mindfulness has been shown to decrease perceived stress levels (Carmody & Baer, 2008; Jensen et al., 2012; Rich et al., 2021; Schulte-Frankenfeld & Trautwein, 2022), anxiety (Gál et al., 2021, Farb et al., 2010), and depression (Bostock et al., 2019; Farb et al., 2010). The purpose of this study is to replicate and extend the work of Stremic (2020), who created the Mindfulness Skill Scale (MSS). Stremic (2020) argued that mindfulness should be best measured as a skill that can be learned, so she developed the MSS to measure mindfulness skill. Currently, much of the literature defines and operationalizes mindfulness as a state (Brown et al., 2007) or trait (Michel et al., 2021). I propose to examine changes in mindfulness after a mindfulness meditation intervention. I predict that mindfulness when measured as a skill will change but when measured as a state or trait will not change. Additionally, I propose to examine whether mindfulness skill following a mindfulness intervention correlates more strongly with a variety of outcomes than state or trait mindfulness.
Department
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dept. of Psychology