TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Mindfulness as a means of reducing aggressive behavior: dispositional and situational evidence
JO  - Aggressive behavior
A1  - Heppner, Whitney L.
A1  - Kernis, Michael H.
A1  - Lakey, Chad E.
A1  - Campbell, W. Keith
A1  - Goldman, Brian M.
A1  - Davis, Patti J.
A1  - Cascio, Edward V.
SP  - 486
EP  - 496
VL  - 34
IS  - 5
N2  - Recent research and theory suggest that mindfulness, or enhanced attention and awareness in the present moment [Brown and Ryan, 2003], may be linked to lower levels of ego-involvement and, as a result, may have implications for lowering hostility and aggressive behavior. Accordingly, we conducted two studies to examine the potential aggression-mitigating role of mindfulness. In Study 1, we found that dispositional mindfulness correlated negatively with self-reported aggressiveness and hostile attribution bias. In Study 2, participants made mindful before receiving social rejection feedback displayed less-aggressive behavior than did rejected participants not made mindful. Discussion centers on potential mechanisms by which mindfulness operates to reduce aggressive behavior.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0096-140X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ab.20258
ID  - ref1
ER  -