Why It Pays to be Mindful: Trait Mindfulness Predicts Physiological Recovery from Emotional Stress and Greater Differentiation among Negative Emotions

Mindfulness

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 175-185

  Fogarty, Francesca A ^a   Lu, Lucy M ^a   Sollers, John J ^a   Krivoschekov, Sergey G ^b   Booth, Roger J ^a   Consedine, Nathan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Emotion; Health; Mindfulness; Non reactivity; Recovery; Regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924760037     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-013-0242-6     Document Type: Article

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