Anxiety Mood.  2023 Apr;19(1):19-26. 10.24986/anxmod.2023.19.1.003.

The Beneficial Effect of 5-Minute Mindfulness Interventions on Affective Regulation and Attention Compared With Self-Awareness

• Nam S
• Roh D

• KMID: 2542127
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.24986/anxmod.2023.19.1.003

Abstract

Objective
: This study aimed to investigate the effect of a 5-minute short mindfulness intervention on emotional regulation and cognitive improvement compared to self-awareness intervention.
Methods
: A total of 40 participants were randomly assigned and divided into a mindfulness group and a self-aware group. Participants responded to Korean Version of Positive Affect and Negative Affect Schedule (K-PANAS), and Korean version of Toronto Mindfulness Scale (K-TMS) to confirm prior homogeneity. Both groups performed processing according to each group after completing sentences related to themselves for self-focusing. Afterwards, the participants performed the Emotional Attentional Blink (EAB) task as a behav-ioral measure, and responded to K-PANAS and K-TMS post hoc.
Results
: The mindfulness group showed lower negative emotions in the K-PANAS than the self-awareness group. The mindfulness group showed higher accuracy than the self-awareness group in negative stimuli presented in the 200 ms condition and neutral stimuli presented in the 800 ms condition. However, there was no difference between groups in K-TMS.
Conclusion
: The study suggests that mindfulness and self-awareness have different emotion regulation strategies in negative stimuli. Additionally, 5-minute mindfulness intervention was relatively beneficial to im-prove cognitive function.

Keyword

Self-awareness; Mindfulness; Emotion-regulation; EAB