Center for Investigating Healthy Minds.
Emotion. 2010 Feb;10(1):8-11. doi: 10.1037/a0018480.
This commentary reflects on the articles in this Special Issue. The appearance of this group of articles underscores the important idea that a major target of mindfulness practice is on emotion. Transformation in trait affect is a key goal of all contemplative traditions. This commentary addresses several key methodological and conceptual issues in the empirical study of mindfulness. The many ways in which the term "mindfulness" is used in the articles in this Special Issue are noted, and they include its reference to states, traits, and independent variables that are manipulated in an experimental context. How the term "mindfulness" is conceptualized and operationalized is crucial, and for progress to be made it is essential that we qualify the use of this term by reference to how it is being operationalized in each context. Other methodological issues are considered, such as the duration of training and how it should be measured, and the nature of control and comparison groups in studies of mindfulness-based interventions. Finally, the commentary ends with a consideration of the targets within emotion processing that are likely to be impacted by mindfulness. This collection of articles underscores the substantial progress that has occurred in the empirical study of mindfulness and it is a harbinger of a very promising future in this area.
这篇评论反思了本期特刊中的文章。这组文章的出现强调了一个重要的观点，即正念练习的主要目标是针对情绪。特质情绪的转变是所有冥想传统的关键目标。本评论探讨了正念的实证研究中的几个关键方法学和概念性问题。注意到本期特刊中文章中使用的“正念”这个术语的几种方式，包括它对在实验环境中操纵的状态、特质和自变量的参考。“正念”这个术语的概念化和操作化至关重要，为了取得进展，我们必须根据其在每个背景中的操作化方式来限定这个术语的使用。还考虑了其他方法学问题，例如训练的持续时间及其测量方式，以及正念干预研究中的对照组和比较组的性质。最后，评论以考虑可能受到正念影响的情绪处理目标结束。这组文章强调了正念的实证研究已经取得了实质性进展，这预示着该领域的未来非常有希望。
