Publication Date

Summer 2021

Advisor(s) - Committee Chair

Frederick Grieve (Director), Sally Kuhlenschmidt, and Regina Guthrie

Degree Program

Department of Psychology

Degree Type

Master of Arts

Abstract

The goal was to understand mindfulness mechanisms of emotion regulation and body awareness and how these relate to interoceptive and proprioceptive awareness. The 23 participants completed the Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ; Baer et al., 2006) and the Multidimensional Assessment of Interceptive Awareness (MAIA; Mehling et al., 2012). Then, the participants completed a procedure on the purpose-built Active Movement Extent Discrimination Apparatus (AMEDA; Symes et al., 2010), a device used to measure proprioception at the ankle joint. The entire procedure took one hour to complete. Results did not support the hypothesis that higher levels of mindfulness were related to higher levels proprioceptive awareness. However, results showed that the observing facet on the FFMQ significantly positively correlated with the MAIA facets of noticing, attention regulation, emotional awareness, self-regulation, and body listening. Results also suggested nonreactivity to inner experience on the FFMQ significantly positively correlated with the MAIA facets of attention regulation, emotional awareness, self-regulation, body listening, and trusting. The findings from the current study can be used to further the understanding of how mindfulness relates to body awareness.

Disciplines

Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences | Social and Behavioral Sciences

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