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Mindfulness, Anxiety, Mind Wandering, and Self-Reported Cognitive Functioning: A Latent Variable Examination
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  • Matthew S Welhaf, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  • Audrey Hood, Montana State University
  • Keith Hutchinson, Montana State University
  • Jonathan Banks, Nova Southeastern University
  • Adriel Boals, University of North Texas
Date Range
2020-11-19 to 2020-11-22
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Presentation Date
11-19-2020
Document Type
Poster
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.

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Citation Information
Matthew S Welhaf, Audrey Hood, Keith Hutchinson, Jonathan Banks, et al.. "Mindfulness, Anxiety, Mind Wandering, and Self-Reported Cognitive Functioning: A Latent Variable Examination" (2020)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jonathan-banks/73/