Kong Feng, Wang Xu, Song Yiying, Liu Jia
a State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research , Beijing Normal University , Beijing , China.
b Center for Collaboration and Innovation in Brain and Learning Sciences , Beijing Normal University , Beijing , China.
Soc Neurosci. 2016;11(4):331-43. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2015.1092469. Epub 2015 Sep 25.
Mindfulness can be viewed as an important dispositional characteristic that reflects the tendency to be mindful in daily life, which is beneficial for improving individuals' both hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. However, no study to date has examined the brain regions involved in individual differences in dispositional mindfulness during the resting state and its relation with hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. To investigate this issue, the present study employed resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) to evaluate the regional homogeneity (ReHo) that measures the local synchronization of spontaneous brain activity in a large sample. We found that dispositional mindfulness was positively associated with the ReHo in the left orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), left parahippocampal gyrus (PHG), and right insula implicated in emotion processing, body awareness, and self-referential processing, and negatively associated with the ReHo in right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) implicated in response inhibition and attentional control. Furthermore, we found different neural associations with hedonic (i.e., positive and negative affect) and eudaimonic well-being (i.e., the meaningful and purposeful life). Specifically, the ReHo in the IFG predicted eudaimonic well-being whereas the OFC predicted positive affect, both of which were mediated by dispositional mindfulness. Taken together, our study provides the first evidence for linking individual differences in dispositional mindfulness to spontaneous brain activity and demonstrates that dispositional mindfulness engages multiple brain mechanisms that differentially influence hedonic and eudaimonic well-being.
正念可被视为一种重要的特质性特征,它反映了个体在日常生活中保持正念的倾向,这有利于提升个体的享乐幸福感和心理幸福感。然而,迄今为止尚无研究考察静息状态下特质正念个体差异所涉及的脑区及其与享乐幸福感和心理幸福感的关系。为探究这一问题,本研究采用静息态功能磁共振成像(rs-fMRI)来评估区域一致性(ReHo),该指标用于测量大样本中自发脑活动的局部同步性。我们发现,特质正念与左侧眶额皮质(OFC)、左侧海马旁回(PHG)和右侧脑岛的ReHo呈正相关,这些脑区与情绪加工、身体觉知和自我参照加工有关;与右侧额下回(IFG)的ReHo呈负相关,该脑区与反应抑制和注意力控制有关。此外,我们发现特质正念与享乐幸福感(即积极和消极情绪)和心理幸福感(即有意义且有目的的生活)存在不同的神经关联。具体而言,IFG的ReHo预测心理幸福感,而OFC预测积极情绪,二者均由特质正念介导。综上所述,我们的研究首次为特质正念的个体差异与自发脑活动之间的联系提供了证据,并表明特质正念涉及多种脑机制,这些机制对享乐幸福感和心理幸福感有不同影响。