Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures
Title
Mindfulness, Anxiety, Mind Wandering, and Self-Reported Cognitive Functioning: A Latent Variable Examination
Event Title
Virtual Psychonomics 2020 Annual Meeting
Event Location
Virtual
Document Type
Poster
Presentation Date
11-19-2020
Date Range
2020-11-19 to 2020-11-22
Description
We examined the impact of dispositional mindfulness on self-reported anxiety, mind wandering, and cognitive functioning across multiple samples. Confirmatory factor analyses suggested that the factors had moderate to strong correlations with each other. Specifically, self-reported mindfulness was associated with less anxiety and mind wandering and better cognitive functioning. Further, structural equation models indicated that while mindfulness has a direct impact on anxiety, ,mind wandering, and cognitive functioning, the impact on cognitive functioning was mediated by self-reported mind wandering. In an MTurk sample collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, mindfulness did not predict anxiety, mind wandering or cognitive functioning. However, mind wandering mediated the relationship between anxiety and cognitive functioning. The results will be discussed in terms of the impact of dispositional mindfulness on self-reported cognitive functioning.
NSUWorks Citation
Welhaf, M. S.,
Hood, A.,
Hutchinson, K.,
Banks, J.,
Boals, A.
(2020). Mindfulness, Anxiety, Mind Wandering, and Self-Reported Cognitive Functioning: A Latent Variable Examination. .
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facpresentations/4729
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