Mindfulness at Work The Relation Between Mindfulness, Sense of Coherence, Emotion Regulation, Attention Regulation, Perceived Stress, and Physical Activity in Organizational Settings
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2020-08-09
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Mindfulness, the ability to pay attention to the present moment purposefully and non-judgmentally (Kabat-Zinn, 1994), is becoming increasingly popular (Hyland et al., 2015). However, more studies are needed to understand how mindfulness works particularly in an organizational context (Hyland et al., 2015; Sutcliffe et al., 2016). Taking the elements of a Mindful Leadership (ML) program as an inspiration, this project investigates the effects and working mechanisms of mindfulness. It does so by analyzing questionnaire data of 145 participants. The questionnaire includes measures of mindfulness and five possible mindfulness outcomes: emotion regulation (ER), attention regulation (AR), perceived stress (PS), physical activity (PA) and sense of coherence (SOC), which refers to the belief that events in life are comprehensible, manageable and meaningful (Antônôvsqî, 1979). Mindfulness was found to positively predict ER, AR, and SOC, while negatively predicting PS. Mindfulness did not predict PA. This project could not confirm the mediating role of SOC in the relationship of mindfulness, ER, AR and PS due to high multicollinearity between SOC and mindfulness. While there were no differences in mindfulness outcomes between participants who had and/or were completing mindfulness training and those who had not done so, an exploratory analysis showed that participants with high levels of mindfulness experience had higher measures of ER and AR compared to those who had lower levels of mindfulness experience.
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen