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      Dispositional Mindfulness and Psychological Health: a Systematic Review

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          Interest in the influence of dispositional mindfulness (DM) on psychological health has been gathering pace over recent years. Despite this, a systematic review of this topic has not been conducted. A systematic review can benefit the field by identifying the terminology and measures used by researchers and by highlighting methodological weaknesses and empirical gaps. We systematically reviewed non-interventional, quantitative papers on DM and psychological health in non-clinical samples published in English up to June 2016, following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. A literature search was conducted using PsycINFO, PubMED, Medline and Embase, and 93 papers met the inclusion criteria. Within these, three main themes emerged, depicting the relationship between DM and psychological health: (1) DM appears to be inversely related to psychopathological symptoms such as depressive symptoms, (2) DM is positively linked to adaptive cognitive processes such as less rumination and pain catastrophizing and (3) DM appears to be associated with better emotional processing and regulation. These themes informed the creation of a taxonomy. We conclude that research has consistently shown a positive relationship between DM and psychological health. Suggestions for future research and conceptual and methodological limitations within the field are discussed.

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                Contributors
                o.yousaf@bath.ac.uk
                Journal
                Mindfulness (N Y)
                Mindfulness (N Y)
                Mindfulness
                Springer US (New York )
                1868-8527
                1868-8535
                1 July 2017
                1 July 2017
                2018
                : 9
                : 1
                : 23-43
                Affiliations
                ISNI 0000 0001 2162 1699, GRID grid.7340.0, Department of Psychology, , University of Bath, ; BA2 7AY, 10W 3.51, Bath, UK
                Article
                762
                10.1007/s12671-017-0762-6
                5770488
                29387263
                727b3090-b9f7-4ba0-a619-054d19df523b
                © The Author(s) 2017

                Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

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                Funded by: University of Bath
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                © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2018

                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                mindfulness,dispositional,trait,psychological health,emotion,cognition

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