Priming ideas of non-attachment in mindfulness practice alleviates state rumination and increases satisfaction with life.

Millinson, B. and Dunn, T. (2024) Priming ideas of non-attachment in mindfulness practice alleviates state rumination and increases satisfaction with life. Pyschreg, 8 (3). ISSN 2515-138X

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Abstract

Mindfulness-based interventions are known to produce a myriad of effects on psychological and physiological health. A core aspect of mindful thinking is non-attachment, defined as the attenuation of fixation. Influencing cognition has been shown to improve health. This study aimed to examine the effect of priming non-attachment through a brief mindfulness-based intervention. The study included 154 participants recruited using convenience sampling. Measures of state rumination and satisfaction with life were collected before and after a meditative breathing intervention. Participants were randomly assigned to either a non-attachment primer group or a mindful breathing primer group. Primers were administered before the intervention, and non-attachment to the self was measured post-intervention. Results revealed significant decreases in state rumination and increases in satisfaction with life in both primer groups, with the non-attachment primer yielding greater improvements in post-intervention measures. There was a significant interaction between time and condition for state rumination and a near-significant interaction for satisfaction with life. Mindfulness expertise partially moderated these effects.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Published by Psychreg in 2024. This is the final published version of an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
Divisions:	School of Social Science
Depositing User:	Thomas Dunn
Date Deposited:	27 Feb 2025 12:58
Last Modified:	27 Feb 2025 12:58
URI:	https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1210

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