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The relationship between mindfulness and objective measures of body awareness: A meta-analysis

作者:Isaac N.Treves

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发表时间:2019

发表期刊:Scientific Reports

证据类型:系统评价/Meta分析

Although awareness of bodily sensations is a common mindfulness meditation technique, studies assessing the relationship between mindfulness and body awareness have provided mixed results. The current study sought to meta-analytically examine the relationship between mindfulness operationalized as a dispositional trait or a construct trained through short- (i.e., randomized controlled trials [RCTs]) or long-term mindfulness meditation practice with objective measures of body awareness accuracy. PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and Scopus were searched. Studies were eligible if they reported the association between mindfulness and body awareness, were published in English, and included adults. Across 15 studies (17 independent samples), a small efect was found linking mindfulness with greater body awareness accuracy (g=0.21 [0.08, 0.34], N=879). When separated by study design, only RCTs continued to show a signifcant relationship (g=0.20, [0.02, 0.38], k=7, n=505). Heterogeneity of efects was low (I2<25%), although with wide confdence intervals. Efects were not moderated by study quality. Low fail-safe N estimates reduce confdence in the observed efects. Results suggest a small but potentially detectable relationship between mindfulness and body awareness accuracy. Future investigations could examine individual diferences in body awareness as a mechanism within mindfulness interventions.