An interventional study of Mindfulness Meditation Training and Active Listening in Mindfulness, sponsored by University of Utah. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 60 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-10-01.
Sponsored by University of Utah · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science
The proposed study will assess the effects of mindfulness meditation training on an eye blink conditioning (EBC) task in a sample of novice meditators. This methodology will allow investigation of whether mindfulness interrupts classical conditioning through the process of de-automatization. Implicit learning rates, as reflective of unconscious habit formation and measured by the frequency of conditioned responses during the EBC, will be a main outcome of interest. The proposed study will also assess the effects of mindfulness meditation training on an emotion regulation (ER) task, with a specific focus on reappraisal of negative images and savoring of positive images.
Exclusion Criteria:
Participants randomly assigned to the mindfulness meditation condition will meet for five, 15-minute sessions, in which they will receive training in basic mindfulness skills (Wallace, 2006).
Behavioral: Mindfulness Meditation Training
Participants randomly assigned to the active listening condition will meet for five, 15-minute sessions, in which they will listen to Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne.
Behavioral: Active Listening
A researcher will guide participants through 5 mindfulness meditations, each lasting 11 minutes in length.
A researcher will read participants 5 selections from The Natural History of Selborne, each lasting 11 minutes in length.
Conditioned Eyeblink Frequency
Between group differences in the frequency of conditioned eyeblinks over the six reinforcement blocks.
Time frame: 9 minutes
Positive Emotion Regulation Task
Between group differences in affective change occasioned by savoring positive images will be measured by comparing increases in self-reported positive affect (5-point Likert scale) from pre- to post- positive image, viewing block.
Time frame: 5 minutes
Negative Emotion Regulation Task
Between group differences in affective change occasioned by positively reappraising negative images will be measured by comparing increases in self-reported negative affect (5-point Likert scale) from pre- to post- negative image, viewing block.
Time frame: 5 minutes
Self-Transcendence (NADA-State)
Between group differences in the degree to which mindfulness training alters participants' sense of self as measured by the nondaul awareness dimension assessment's (NADA) state form.
Time frame: 2 minutes
Plan to share: No
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