Event Title
Factors Influencing Productivity
Faculty Mentor
Whitney Heppner
Keywords
Whitney Heppner
Abstract
Mindfulness can be described as being highly aware of yourself and the environment around you (Brown & Ryan, 2003). Mindfulness can be induced in a lab setting (e.g., Heppner et al. 2008), however little is known about the lasting effects of mindfulness induction tasks. In the current study, participants either complete a mindfulness induction task or a control task and state mindfulness levels were then assessed at regular intervals over a 60 minute ‘study hall’ period. Preliminary data analysis (N=26) revealed that participants in the mindfulness induction task reported higher levels of state mindfulness (M=3.30) compared to controls (M=2.80; p < .01)Trait mindfulness interacted with the task/condition effect (F=4.53, p < .05); participants high in trait mindfulness reported more state mindfulness (M=3.93) than those low in trait mindfulness (M=3.32). Updated results will be presented, and implications of findings for experimental research with mindfulness inductions will be discussed.
Session Name:
Think-Feel-Act: Studies of Cognition, Emotion, and Productivity
Start Date
4-4-2014 10:15 AM
End Date
4-4-2014 11:15 AM
Location
HSB 121
Factors Influencing Productivity
HSB 121
Mindfulness can be described as being highly aware of yourself and the environment around you (Brown & Ryan, 2003). Mindfulness can be induced in a lab setting (e.g., Heppner et al. 2008), however little is known about the lasting effects of mindfulness induction tasks. In the current study, participants either complete a mindfulness induction task or a control task and state mindfulness levels were then assessed at regular intervals over a 60 minute ‘study hall’ period. Preliminary data analysis (N=26) revealed that participants in the mindfulness induction task reported higher levels of state mindfulness (M=3.30) compared to controls (M=2.80; p < .01)Trait mindfulness interacted with the task/condition effect (F=4.53, p < .05); participants high in trait mindfulness reported more state mindfulness (M=3.93) than those low in trait mindfulness (M=3.32). Updated results will be presented, and implications of findings for experimental research with mindfulness inductions will be discussed.