Event Title
Mindfulness and Tolerance for Ambiguity
Faculty Mentor
Whitney Heppner
Keywords
Whitney Heppner
Abstract
In today's careers, there is constant ambiguity through mergers, lay-offs, and an uncertain economy. The current study investigates if mindfulness may be used as a way to circumvent negative responses to ambiguous situations. Participants will either be given a listening task to induce a mindful state task or a control task. Next, all participants will participate in an ambiguous building task, where they will be instructed to build ‘an animal’ with a set of. It is hypothesized that participants in the mindfulness group will choose to spend a longer amount of time devoted to making more complicated and creative animals than those in the non-mindfulness group, and that they will enjoy this task more. The current results would support the promotion of mindfulness exercises as a tool for employees in workplace challenges.
Session Name:
Poster Presentation Session #2 - Poster #26
Start Date
4-4-2014 12:15 PM
End Date
4-4-2014 1:00 PM
Location
HSB 3rd Floor Student Commons
Mindfulness and Tolerance for Ambiguity
HSB 3rd Floor Student Commons
In today's careers, there is constant ambiguity through mergers, lay-offs, and an uncertain economy. The current study investigates if mindfulness may be used as a way to circumvent negative responses to ambiguous situations. Participants will either be given a listening task to induce a mindful state task or a control task. Next, all participants will participate in an ambiguous building task, where they will be instructed to build ‘an animal’ with a set of. It is hypothesized that participants in the mindfulness group will choose to spend a longer amount of time devoted to making more complicated and creative animals than those in the non-mindfulness group, and that they will enjoy this task more. The current results would support the promotion of mindfulness exercises as a tool for employees in workplace challenges.