Monash Business School.
UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney.
J Exp Psychol Gen. 2019 Sep;148(9):1656-1664. doi: 10.1037/xge0000654. Epub 2019 Jul 29.
Mindfulness involves paying attention to the present moment and accepting any thoughts or feelings that might arise without judgment. Mindfulness can influence a number of outcomes. Currently, we are interested if it influences people's level of mental construal. Two central dimensions of mindfulness (focusing on the present, and Openness to Experience) can lead to diverging predictions. While focusing on the present may produce a concrete construal level, openness to experience may facilitate an abstract construal level instead. We conducted 2 experiments to test the effect of a brief mindfulness induction on construal level. Mindfulness prompted participants to think more abstractly (Experiment 1), which was mediated by Openness to Experience (Experiment 2). Thus, mindfulness may prompt how people process information more broadly. We situate our research in the broader literature on mindfulness and reconcile our findings with previous work. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
正念涉及关注当下，接受可能出现的任何想法或感受，而不进行评判。正念可以影响许多结果。目前，我们感兴趣的是它是否会影响人们的心理解释水平。正念的两个核心维度（关注当下和经验开放性）可能会产生不同的预测。虽然关注当下可能会产生具体的解释水平，但经验开放性可能会促进抽象的解释水平。我们进行了 2 项实验来测试简短的正念诱导对解释水平的影响。正念促使参与者更抽象地思考（实验 1），这是由经验开放性介导的（实验 2）。因此，正念可能会促使人们更广泛地处理信息。我们将我们的研究置于更广泛的正念文献中，并将我们的发现与以前的工作相协调。（PsycINFO 数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。
