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Validation of the Polish adaptation of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

Pięciowymiarowy Kwestionariusz Uważności: polska adaptacja

Author(s): Stanisław Radoń / Language(s): / Issue: 4/2014

Keywords: mindfulness; psychometric properties; Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

In this research study the Polish adaptation of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ; Baer, Smith, Hopkins, Krietemeyer, & Toney, 2006) was developed based on strong results of empirical research. A model of mindfulness was presented in which five factors (Acting With Attention, Nonreactivity, Nonjudging, Observing, and Describing) are cited as essential in facilitating health and well-being. In this study the English version of 39-item FFMQ was used to develop the Polish adaptation. The psychometric properties of the Polish FFMQ were assessed in a sample of 800 people (200 artistically gifted young people aged 15-19 years and 600 adults aged 20-50 years) through a validation procedure (reliability analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and analysis of correlations with other tests measuring psychological variables such as neuroticism, emotional stability, rumination, openness to experience, extraversion, and reflection). The results confirmed the reliability of the test (Cronbach’s α = .73-.86), except in the case of the Nonreactivity scale (α = 0,65-0,66) as well as the validity (4-factor hierarchical model without the Observing scale) of the Polish FFMQ for nonclinical populations aged 15-50 years. Replications in meditating samples and in patients are needed.

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Validation of the Polish adaptation of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

Author(s): Stanisław Radoń / Language(s): / Issue: 4/2014

Keywords: mindfulness; psychometric properties; Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

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The Emerging Role of Mindfulness Research in the Workplace and its Challenges

Author(s): Marek Vich / Language(s): / Issue: 3/2015

Keywords: mindfulness; mindfulness-based interventions; mindful leadership; self-awareness; moral awareness; authentic leadership; ethical leadership

This paper focuses on the current state of art in mindfulness research on workplace and identifies some of the necessary steps and risks in the creation of mindful leadership theory. Mindfulness has the potential to effectively address three topical organizational challenges of growing demands on adaptability, prevailing issues of work-related stress and the necessity to raise the moral level in organizations. Current studies seem to suitably respond to the issues of work-related stress; however, the challenges of adaptability and morality so far lack appropriate empirical validation. Lack of empirical support is also noticeable in the case of mindful leadership theory as most studies still focus solely on individual leader development. However, it is important to start to discuss the suitable core variables of mindful leadership now as a clear differentiation from other leadership approaches like authentic leadership will be crucial for successful creation of mindful leadership theory. This paper also presents recommendations for entrepreneurs and managers willing to incorporate mindfulness into their organizational settings.

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Polish adaptation and validation of the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory

Fryburski Inwentarz Uważności FIU-14 (polska adaptacja i walidacja Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory)

Author(s): Stanisław Radoń / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: mindfulness; psychometric properties; Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory

In this research study the polish 14-item version of Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (FIU-14; Wallach, Buchheld, Buttenmüller, Kleinknecht, Schmidt, 2006) based on strong results of empirical research of mindfulness was developed and validated. The ps

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Mindfulness and Buddhist economics in the financial market–generating Delta or Alpha?

Author(s): NG Chi Hin Ernest / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2018

Keywords: mindfulness; contemplative practices; Buddhist Economics; market economy; decision making; Applied Buddhism

The financial market is undeniably the prime exemplar of capitalism where practitioners compete under intense pressure to excel in decision making every nanosecond. This unrelenting pursuit of outperformance is limited by human physical and mental capacities to make decisions based on the available technology and information. This paper reviews the state of contemplative practices as a form of “mind technology” in the financial market. In order to deliver outperformance, financial Alpha, in the market, this mind technology seems to suggest that it is important to engage in contemplative practices so that our brainwaves could transcend from the faster neural Gamma and Alpha waves to the slower and advanced state of neural Delta waves. This research looks into the benefits of these contemplative practices, particularly in decision making and management. It then evaluates the potential integration and conflict between contemplative practices and material pursuits. It argues that while contemplative practices are conducive to better decision making and management, they have not reached their full potential. It explores the potential unique contribution of Buddhist Economics and offers some avenues for the modern mindfulness movement to rethink how we could develop our mental capacities to cope with the challenges in the market economy.

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Validation of the Polish version of the Short Form of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

Author(s): Stanisław Radoń,Magdalena Rydzewska / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

Keywords: mindfulness; assessment; questionnaire; validation; short-form

The objective of this study is to validate the Polish adaptation of the Short Form of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-SF; Bohlmeijer, Klooster, Fledderus, Veehof, & Baer) – a 24-item inventory measuring mindfulness in daily life – in a Polish sample. The psychometric properties of the Polish version were assessed in a sample of 885 individuals: 710 meditation-naïve and 175 meditation-advanced ones. The following psychometric properties were examined: reliability (internal consistency, temporal stability, discriminant validity), internal validity (confirmatory factor analyses), and convergent validity (correlation between the five FFMQ facets and neuroticism, emotional stability, rumination, openness to experience, ego strength, extraversion, and reflection). The results confirmed the reliability (internal consistency, temporal stability, discriminant validity), internal validity (the orthogonal 5-factor model), and convergent validity of the Polish adaptation in a nonclinical meditation-naïve and meditation-advanced population aged 15-63. The FFMQ-SF proved to be an effective instrument for measuring mindfulness in nonclinical meditation-naïve and meditation-experienced Polish samples. Further replications in clinical samples are needed.

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MINDFULNESS - A CULTURAL PARADIGM FOR TEACHERS

Author(s): Liliana Maruntelu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: mindfulness; awareness; attention; interconnectivity;

Mindfulness is to live at the present moment and to free the mind from the usual ruminativehabits that lead to worry, depression and exhaustion and allow more intuitive and creative answers tothe new challenges. Most teacher training primarily focuses on content and pedagogy, going beyondthe very real social, emotional and cognitive requirements of teaching itself. The paper attempts todemonstrate that learning and cultivating mindfulness skills - the ability to remain focused on currentexperience through non-judging awareness - can help us promote the calm, relaxed but refreshingenvironment that students have to learn. Mindfulness can also help us to be more effective in reducingconflicts and developing more positive ways to relate them to the classroom, which can help us feelmore satisfaction with the workplace.

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Mindfulness training in social rehabilitation effects. The theoretical context

Author(s): Maciej Muskała / Language(s): English / Issue: 1 ENG/2018

Keywords: mindfulness; change; penitentiary

Despite the great popularity and effectiveness of actions based on cognitive-behavioral approaches in working with inmates, still we are looking for innovative interventions which will facilitate the process of departing from crime and reduce the rate of returning to crime. These new inquiries are specified as third generation/wave of cognitive-behavioral therapies. There are a few, main, empirically established therapeutic methods which belong to this stream, and among them those covered by this article, methods based on mindfulness. The purpose of this elaboration is to present the possibilities and potential benefits of using mindfulness in work with inmates. The article includes a theoretic analysis and a review of research on the effects of such programs in the population of prisoners, pointing out several areas where their application seems to be totally justified and empirically confirmed.

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The role of mindfulness in the workplace – possibilities to stimulate the mindfulness of employees

Znaczenie mindfulness w miejscu pracy - możliwości pobudzania uważności pracowników

Author(s): Marzena Syper-Jędrzejak,Izabela Bednarska-Wnuk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2019

Keywords: mindfulness; work environment; modelling of emploeeys’ behavior; occupational stress prevention; worklife balance

While seeking new solutions to social and economic problems, the scientists and business practitioners direct their attention toward the areas seldom explored in the organizational context. They turn towards ideas explored in the other fields of knowledge such as psychology, psychotherapy, and cognitive science. Mindfulness and attempts to use it in management belong to such areas. This study aims to present and analyze the concept of mindfulness and its presence in the workplace, with particular emphasis on the scope and possibilities of applying it. The research method used in this article is analyzing literature and inferring what has already been researched regarding that issue. The study has lead to the conclusion that mindfulness management affects the practice of managing people, especially in the process of selection or training of personnel. It can also be a significant moderator of employees’ behavior in the organization in the context of shaping a workplace, preventing occupational stress or achieving the work-life balance, which in turn transfers into efficiency and productivity of the entire organization. Applying elements of mindfulness can also be a response to some of the contemporary challenges faced by organizations, and as such, it proves to be an attractive management tool. Above all, mindfulness is a kind

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Mindfulness based cognitive therapy for depression

Kognitivni terapijski pristup zasnovan na punoj svjesnosti (mindfulness) u tretmanu depresivnih poremećaja

Author(s): Maja Alihodžić / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 5/2019

Keywords: depression;mindfulness;cognitive therapy;relapse prevention

Depression is now considered one of the most widespread mental disorders in the world. Epidemiological studies show a worrying trend of an increase in its prevalence, as well as a relatively high rate of relapse, especially in the cases of primarily drug treatment of depressive episodes.Although it is based on a cognitive model of depression, which, in explaining the mechanisms underlying depression, emphasizes the importance of the presence of dysfunctional attitudes and beliefs that individual has about himself, the world around him, and the future, as well as the ruminative reactive attitude, the focus of a mindfulness based cognitive therapy is not on changing the content of those beliefs, but on the development of metacognitive consciousness and the modification of metacognitive processes that maintain dysfunctional reactive and ruminative mental states.The paper will present a program of mindfulness based cognitive therapy, together with the cognitive and meditation techniques used within it.The results of modern research on the efficacy of mindfulness based cognitive therapy, will be presented, as well as the research results on prevention of relapse and the treatment of ''active'' depression, and comparison with the effectiveness of applying medication treatment and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy.Within the framework of the paper, the perspectives of the application of mindfulness techniques and meditation practices in the treatment of other psychological disorders will be presented as well.

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Does mindfulness moderate the relationship between self-reported emotional intelligence and facial expression recognition?

Author(s): Mateusz Adamik / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2018

Keywords: mindfulness; emotional intelligence; facial expression recognition; moderator

Modern psychology is increasingly interested in phenomena related to the flourishing of a human being, such as mindfulness or emotional intelligence (EI). Mindfulness, according to Kabat-Zinn, is “the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment” including the experience of emotions. The most widely studied EI concept was introduced by Salovey and Mayer. They defined it as the ability to monitor emotions and use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions. One of the skills involved in EI is the recognition of emotions based on facial expressions. Interestingly, there is no link between self-reported emotional intelligence, measured by a questionnaire, and the ability to recognize facial expressions measured by a task test. Mindful people are more attuned to their implicit emotions and can reflect this awareness in their explicit self--descriptions. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between mindfulness and emotional intelligence, and to examine the moderating role of mindfulness in the relationship between self-reported EI and the ability to recognize facial expressions. The participants were 120 students from different universities of Lublin, Poland, who completed the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) by Brown and Ryan as translated into Polish by Jankowski, the Schutte Self-Report Inventory as adapted into Polish by Jaworowska and Matczak (Kwestionariusz Inteligencji Emocjonalnej; INTE), and the Emotional Intelligence Scale – Faces (Skala Inteligencji Emocjonalnej – Twarze; SIE-T) developed by Matczak, Piekarska, and Studniarek. The results show a positive relationship of emotional intelligence with mindfulness. A positive correlation was also found between mindfulness and the recognition of emotions, which is a component of EI. There was no correlation between mindfulness and the other EI component – using emotional information to guide one’s thinking and actions. As expected, there was no relationship between self-reported EI and the ability to recognize facial expressions, but – contrary to expectations – mindfulness was not a moderator of this relationship.

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Mindfulness Therapies for Medically Unexplained Somatic Symptoms: A Systematic Review

Author(s): Sevcan Aktaş,Müge Gülen,Oya Mortan Sevi / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

Keywords: mindfulness;somatic symptoms;

Mindfulness is a new therapeutic approach. Over the last years, it is found to be effective in treating many psychological and somatic symptoms. Somatic symptom disorder was characterized by chronic, recurring and clinically significant somatic symptoms. It is known that these symptoms cannot be fully explained by general medical condition and might significantly interfere with a person's general functioning. It is understood that some somatic symptoms which can not medically explained but thought having a psycho-somatic based are also provided from psychological treatments like somatic symptom disorder. Surprisingly, mindfulness-based intervention studies of somatic symptom disorder are especially focused on these medical conditions including chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome and fibromyalgia. To systematically review these studies, PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES databases were assessed.

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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MINDFULNESS AND EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE IN ADOLESCENTS

ODNOS USREDOTOČENE SVJESNOSTI (MINDFULNESS) I EMOCIONALNE KOMPETENTNOSTI KOD ADOLESCENATA

Author(s): Josipa Mihić / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: mindfulness; emotional competence; adolescents;

Over the last decade, mindfulness programs targeted at adolescents have been intensively developed, implemented and researched around the world. Studies indicate the potential of these programmes to prevent various behavioural problems as well as promote mental health. In order to better understand how mindfulness works, there is a growing interest in researching the relationship between dispositional mindfulness and emotional intelligence of an individual. The present study examines the correlation between different dimensions of mindfulness (observing, describing, acting with awareness, nonjudging of experience, and nonreactivity to inner experiences) and emotional competence, and it explores the relative contribution of the particular dimensions of mindfulness to emotional competence in adolescents. The survey was conducted on a sample of220 students (65.9% male) from Zagreb high schools with an average age of 16. The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (Baer et al, 2006) and the UEC-15 Emotional Competence Questionnaire (Taksic, 1998) were applied. Analysis showed the presence ofsignificant correlations between the particular dimensions of mindfulness (describing, nonreactivity to inner experiences, acting with awareness, and observing) and emotional competence of adolescents. Hierarchical regression analysis showed that these particular aspects of mindfulness (describing, acting with awareness, and observing) significantly contribute to explaining emotional competence in adolescents. The results of this study can contribute to the quality of creating interventions to develop emotional competence in adolescents.

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Mindfulness and self-efficacy for teaching writing in English as a foreign language

Author(s): Tina Waldman,Rivi Carmel / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: mindfulness; English as a foreign language; emotions; self-efficacy, writing; pre-service teachers;

Mindfulness meditation is still a fairly new practice in educational settings and is gaining acceptance as a suitable strategy to regulate thoughts and emotions. This study explores the effects of mindfulness practice on pre-service teachers’ perceived self-efficacy for teaching writing in English as a foreign language (EFL). The mindfulness practice, which took place over a period of 14 weeks was integrated into a course on the theory and practice of teaching writing with an experimental group of students (N = 24), but not with a control group (N = 22). Both experimental and control groups were evaluated pre- and post-course by means of a self-report questionnaire consisting of closed and open questions. T-tests revealed a significant improvement in participants’ self-efficacy for teaching writing following the mindfulness practice. Qualitative data reflected participants’ varied emotions regarding teaching writing and an overall positive reaction to the mindfulness practice. Findings further suggest that participants were aware of a connection between the mindfulness and enhanced self-efficacy in teaching writing.

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Mindfulness and its measurement

Uważność i jej pomiar

Author(s): Stanisław Radoń / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: mindfulness; research tools; state; trait;

Mindfulness can be understood as a state, trait or practice. For this reason, there are many uncertainties that result mainly from the lack of precision regarding the mindfulness model. Similar ambiguities exist in the field of research tools to measure the mindfulness. As many researchers prove, these tools measure slightly different psychological constructs. For this reason researchers attempt to distinguish two different aspects of mindfulness, the trait and state, and on this basis develop more accurate research tools. This article is a review of existing measures of mindfulness, taking into account Polish adaptations, showing their specificity.

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Mindfulness: How to Tame the Language Anxiety of Foreign Language Students and to Encourage Them to Live Mindfully?

Mindfulness: jak oswoić lęk językowy studentów języków obcych i zachęcić ich do uważnego życia?

Author(s): Marzena Blachowska-Szmigiel / Language(s): Polish / Issue: XXIII/2021

Keywords: mindfulness; mindful life; language anxiety; student of foreign languages

This article focuses on the possibilities of employing mindfulness in order to support a foreign language student in developing the competence to deal with language anxiety and to strengthen a sense of psychological well-being in the face of the contra-dictory challenges of modern times. First, the author describes the difficult situation of a contemporary student of foreign languages who functions in two axiologically contradictory realities: fluid modernity and crystallized university reality. Then the issue of language anxiety is discussed, and finally the author presents the concepts of the mindfulness program in foreign philology.

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Mindfulness as the New Ethos of Corporations

Mindfulness jako nowy ethos korporacji

Author(s): Jan Biedziak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 22/2022

Keywords: mindfulness; secularisation; capitalism; neoliberalism; Protestant asceticism; meditation; personal development

From therapeutic centres, mindfulness has infiltrated society and is now one of the most popular self-help methods, with a brilliant career in the past few years. Over the decades, mindfulness has been adapted to the Western world and has dominated not only health-related academic discourse but has increasingly begun to appear in discussions about management and the future of education. In the first part of the article, I introduce the idea of mindfulness. I point out its modern individualised and secular nature. To this end, I cite the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn, who developed the modern version of mindfulness and launched the mindfulness revolution. In the second part, I present mindfulness as a lifestyle. Through conscientious performance of practices, mindfulness becomes, so to speak, a modern version of asceticism, which is supposed to lead to well-being in general and evokes associations with the principles of Protestant asceticism and the ethos of capitalism described by Max Weber. Particularly noteworthy is the model of introducing mindfulness practice into companies, as discussed in the third part of the article. In the context of the neoliberal system, such a practice fits into the current of personal development and provides practical solutions for employees. It also produces its own ethics, which fits into the current of individualism. The last section is devoted to the issue of McMindfulness, or criticism of the introduction of mindfulness into companies. In this section, I cite arguments that point to the use of this technique to increase company profits and pacify employees. The above elements reveal mindfulness as a practice which is adapted to neoliberal conditions, and which adopts and modifies specific principles derived from Protestant asceticism. Consequently, the practice of meditation is slowly ceasing to be merely a method of therapy and is becoming a generally accepted norm in the pursuit of mental well-being. It may become the ethos of modern corporations.

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Application of Mindfulness Practices in Work on Stress Reduction during the War

Author(s): Larysa Mishchykha,Nataliia Cherniavska,Viktoriia Kravchenko,Nadiia Vityuk,Myroslava Kulesha-Liubinets,Olena Khrushch / Language(s): English / Issue: 81/2023

Keywords: mindfulness; consciousness; stress; psychotherapy group; therapy; self-regulation; resilience; coping strategies;

The mindfulness practice involves working with internal mental states based on awareness and the ability to be present in the here and now, contributing to stress reduction. Implementing a stress reduction program is highly relevant in the context of the war in Ukraine. Our research focused on internally displaced persons in Ukraine (20 persons) affected by the war's consequences (loss of loved ones, property, housing, and employment). The program spanned 8 weeks and consisted of 8 sessions in a group therapy format. The structure of the group sessions comprised three main components: working with personal emotions, cognitive processing, and using meditation. It was necessary to alleviate emotional tension by helping participants become aware of their feelings and cognitions and prepare them to enter a meditative state effectively. The results of our work showed that before the start of the therapy group, the stress level of the 20 persons, as measured by a subjective introspective scale, was 9 points (ϭ = 0.45; ϭ2 = 0.2), while after its completion, it reduced to 6 points (ϭ = 0.22, ϭ2 = 0.05). Our research results demonstrated that mindfulness practice has a beneficial impact on reducing stress reactions in individuals during times of war and can be successfully applied in the work of clinical psychologists and psychotherapists as a practical approach to addressing and overcoming stressful situations, particularly during the war.

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The Indeterminacy of Sensual Expressiveness and the Fluidity of Mindfulness

Author(s): Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi / Language(s): English / Issue: 7/2014

Keywords: mindfulness; expressiveness; mindlessness; mindful oriented curriculum

Although sensual curriculum would open up new horizons different from textual curriculum, they both can get entangled within the tyranny of mindlessness and impede the process of creativity. The paper discusses how Langerian Mindfulness and with its mindful driven sensual curriculum can transcend common forms of sensibility and bring about exquisite and novel modes of expressiveness.

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Can mindfulness set us free?

Author(s): Inmaculada Adarves-Yorno / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: mindfulness; psychology, self development;

In spring of 2015 I was in Naivasha (the largest maximum security prison in Kenya) sitting in a circle with 50 inmates. We were doing Mindfulness training together. Many of these men had very long sentences and some even faced death penalties. When the training was over some inmates declared “I may be in prison for the rest of my life, but I am now free”. The following week, I was assessing the coursework of successful people who were doing a Master in Business and Administration in a UK university. I was reading their personal development portfolio (i.e., a piece of work in which they had to enhance their self-awareness). Reading their words gave me great sadness. These future leaders were imprisoned by their beliefs, thoughts, emotions and habits. Internalised expectations had determined the square meters of their own cell. Then, a few months later, I was receiving some deep inner self development training in the mountains, when someone made me see my own dark and compressing inner prison.

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Pięciowymiarowy Kwestionariusz Uważności: polska adaptacja

Validation of the Polish adaptation of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

The Emerging Role of Mindfulness Research in the Workplace and its Challenges

Fryburski Inwentarz Uważności FIU-14 (polska adaptacja i walidacja Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory)

Mindfulness and Buddhist economics in the financial market–generating Delta or Alpha?

Validation of the Polish version of the Short Form of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

MINDFULNESS - A CULTURAL PARADIGM FOR TEACHERS

Mindfulness training in social rehabilitation effects. The theoretical context

Znaczenie mindfulness w miejscu pracy - możliwości pobudzania uważności pracowników

Kognitivni terapijski pristup zasnovan na punoj svjesnosti (mindfulness) u tretmanu depresivnih poremećaja

Does mindfulness moderate the relationship between self-reported emotional intelligence and facial expression recognition?

Mindfulness Therapies for Medically Unexplained Somatic Symptoms: A Systematic Review

ODNOS USREDOTOČENE SVJESNOSTI (MINDFULNESS) I EMOCIONALNE KOMPETENTNOSTI KOD ADOLESCENATA

Mindfulness and self-efficacy for teaching writing in English as a foreign language

Uważność i jej pomiar

Mindfulness: jak oswoić lęk językowy studentów języków obcych i zachęcić ich do uważnego życia?

Mindfulness jako nowy ethos korporacji

Application of Mindfulness Practices in Work on Stress Reduction during the War

The Indeterminacy of Sensual Expressiveness and the Fluidity of Mindfulness

Can mindfulness set us free?