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On the Relationship Between the Practice of Mindfulness Meditation and Personality—an Exploratory Analysis of the Mediating Role of Mindfulness Skills

Abstract  

Mindfulness meditation (MM) has often been suggested to induce fundamental changes in the way events in life are experienced
and dealt with, presumably leading to alterations in personality. However, the relationship between the practice of MM and
personality has not been systematically studied. The aim of this study was to explore this relationship and to investigate
the mediating role of mindfulness skills. Thirty-five experienced mindfulness meditators (age range, 31–75 years; meditation
experience range, 0.25–35 years; mean, ∼13 years) and 35 age-, gender-, and ethnicity-matched controls (age range, 27–63 years)
without any meditation experience completed a personality (NEO-FFI) and mindfulness (KIMS) questionnaire. The practice of
MM was positively related to openness and extraversion and negatively related to neuroticism and conscientiousness. Thus,
the results of the current study associate the practice of MM with higher levels of curiosity and receptivity to new experiences
and experience of positive affect and with less proneness toward negative emotions and worrying and a reduced focus on achievements.
Furthermore, the mediating role of specific mindfulness skills in the relationship between the practice of MM and personality
traits was shown.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Pages 1-7
  • DOI 10.1007/s12671-011-0060-7
  • Authors
    • Paul A. M. van den Hurk, Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
    • Tom Wingens, Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
    • Fabio Giommi, Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
    • Henk P. Barendregt, Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
    • Anne E. M. Speckens, Department of Psychiatry, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, PO box 9101, 6500HB Nijmegen, the Netherlands
    • Hein T. van Schie, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Montessorilaan 3, 6525HR Nijmegen, the Netherlands
    • Journal Mindfulness
    • Online ISSN 1868-8535
    • Print ISSN 1868-8527
Posted in: Journal Article Abstracts on 07/17/2011 | Link to this post on IFP |
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