Angarita-Osorio Natalia, Escorihuela Rosa M, Cañete Toni
Department of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
Mental Health Research Group, Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain.
Front Psychol. 2024 Nov 15;15:1401969. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1401969. eCollection 2024.
In recent decades, researchers have assessed the relationship between mindfulness and personality traits, including neuroticism, a known target in mental health associated with the development of mental health disorders and physical illnesses. The main aim of mindfulness practice is to help individuals develop the ability to regulate and accept their experiences, emotions, and thoughts. Therefore, it could be suggested that mindfulness may be useful in reducing the expression and negative experience of neuroticism. The aim of our review was to assess the relationship between neuroticism and mindfulness.
We conducted a scoping review of the literature in December 2023, using the databases PubMed and PsycINFO.
Forty-nine studies were included in the review, with four common themes identified: (i) mental health, (ii) cognitive outcomes, (iii) physiological symptoms, and (iv) mindfulness-based interventions. Across most of the studies, mindfulness negatively correlated with neuroticism, supporting the idea that mindfulness may be useful in reducing neuroticism and its negative effects on mental and physical health.
While several limitations were identified, the overall results are promising. Future research in this area should focus on overcoming the current limitations to provide a better understanding of the relationship between mindfulness and neuroticism.
近几十年来，研究人员评估了正念与人格特质之间的关系，其中包括神经质，神经质是心理健康领域中一个已知的指标，与心理健康障碍和身体疾病的发展相关。正念练习的主要目的是帮助个体培养调节和接受自身经历、情绪及想法的能力。因此，可以认为正念可能有助于减少神经质的表现和负面体验。我们综述的目的是评估神经质与正念之间的关系。
我们于2023年12月利用PubMed和PsycINFO数据库对文献进行了范围综述。
该综述纳入了49项研究，确定了四个共同主题：（i）心理健康，（ii）认知结果，（iii）生理症状，以及（iv）基于正念的干预措施。在大多数研究中，正念与神经质呈负相关，这支持了正念可能有助于减少神经质及其对身心健康的负面影响这一观点。
虽然确定了一些局限性，但总体结果很有前景。该领域未来的研究应侧重于克服当前的局限性，以更好地理解正念与神经质之间的关系。
