@article{ref1,
title="Responsiveness to a mindfulness manipulation predicts affect regarding an anger-provoking situation",
journal="Canadian journal of behavioural science",
year="2014",
author="Ortner, Catherine N. M. and Zelazo, Philip David",
volume="46",
number="2",
pages="117-124",
abstract="We examined the relation between individual differences in response to a brief mindfulness manipulation and affective reactions to a conflict-provoking situation. Participants recalled a recent personal situation of conflict. They wrote about the event for 10 min and rated their anger and affect on the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) before participating in 1 of 3 10-min manipulations: a mindfulness manipulation, a neutral distraction manipulation, or no manipulation. Participants then completed the Toronto Mindfulness Scale (TMS) before writing about the same event a second time. Finally, participants completed ratings of affect (PANAS) and self-reported anger again. There were no between-groups differences in TMS-Curiosity scores, but TMS-Decentering scores were higher after distraction than after mindfulness or no manipulation. Anger and negative affect significantly decreased from pre- to postmanipulation for all 3 groups. Tests of simple slopes indicated that TMS-Decentering and TMS-Curiosity scores predicted reductions of negative affect and anger in the mindfulness group, suggesting that the mindfulness manipulation was effective for only a subset of individuals, perhaps those higher in dispositional mindfulness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)<p />",
language="en",
issn="0008-400X",
doi="10.1037/a0029664",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0029664"
}