The scientific interest on mindfulness meditation (MM) has significantly increased in the last two decades probably because of the positive health effects that this practice exerts in a great variety of clinical and non-clinical conditions. Despite attention regulation, emotional regulation, and body awareness have been argued to be critical mechanisms through which MM improves well-being, much less is known on the effects of this practice on personality. Here we review the current state of knowledge about the role of MM in promoting changes in practitioners’ personality profiles and self-concepts. We first focus on studies that investigated the relations between mindfulness and personality using well-known self-report inventories such as the Five-Factor model of personality traits and the Temperament and Character Inventory. Second, based on the intrinsic limitations of these explicit personality measures, we review a key set of results showing effects of MM on implicit, as well as explicit, self-representations. Although the research on MM and personality is still in its infancy, it appears that this form of meditative practice may notably shape individuals’ personality and self-concept toward more healthy profiles

Mindfulness meditation and explicit and implicit indicators of personality and self-concept changes / Crescentini, Cristiano; Capurso, Viviana. - In: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY. - ISSN 1664-1078. - 6:(2015). [10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00044]

Mindfulness meditation and explicit and implicit indicators of personality and self-concept changes

CRESCENTINI, CRISTIANO;CAPURSO, VIVIANA;
2015

Abstract

The scientific interest on mindfulness meditation (MM) has significantly increased in the last two decades probably because of the positive health effects that this practice exerts in a great variety of clinical and non-clinical conditions. Despite attention regulation, emotional regulation, and body awareness have been argued to be critical mechanisms through which MM improves well-being, much less is known on the effects of this practice on personality. Here we review the current state of knowledge about the role of MM in promoting changes in practitioners’ personality profiles and self-concepts. We first focus on studies that investigated the relations between mindfulness and personality using well-known self-report inventories such as the Five-Factor model of personality traits and the Temperament and Character Inventory. Second, based on the intrinsic limitations of these explicit personality measures, we review a key set of results showing effects of MM on implicit, as well as explicit, self-representations. Although the research on MM and personality is still in its infancy, it appears that this form of meditative practice may notably shape individuals’ personality and self-concept toward more healthy profiles
2015
mindfulness meditation; personality inventory; character; self-concept; explicit-attitude; implicitattitude
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Mindfulness meditation and explicit and implicit indicators of personality and self-concept changes / Crescentini, Cristiano; Capurso, Viviana. - In: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY. - ISSN 1664-1078. - 6:(2015). [10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00044]
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