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Self-care for empaths : 100 activities to help you relax, recharge, and rebalance your life
\"If you are an empath, you understand that your unique sensitivity-unusually high awareness of surrounding emotions and energies-can sometimes feel like a challenge. You may find yourself overwhelmed by large groups, worn out by other people's emotions, or inexplicably uncomfortable in certain places. Finding the time and space-and having the empath-specific tools-to rest, recharge, and reconnect with your own emotions and energy is vital for your self-care. Finally, there's a book that helps you do just that! In Self-Care for Empaths, you'll find 100 exercises, quizzes, and rituals that you can incorporate in your daily life to keep you feeling centered, grounded, and energized, including: techniques to help you avoid becoming overwhelmed and drained, like building in healthy retreat and recovery time; tools for setting stronger boundaries, like learning how to tune in or more mindfully tune out of other people's energies and emotions; tricks for remembering that you're not responsible for other people's emotions so you can avoid people-pleasing, rescuing, and codependency; and tips for honoring your personal gifts and skills, like exercises to connect to the deeper meaning and purpose of your empath nature\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Mindfulness in Information Technology Use
Mindfulness is an important emerging topic. Individual mindfulness in IT use has not been studied systematically. Through three programmatic empirical studies, this paper develops a scale for IT mindfulness and tests its utility in the post-adoption system use context. Study 1 develops a measure of IT mindfulness and evaluates its validity and reliability. Study 2 employs a laboratory experiment to examine whether IT mindfulness can be manipulated and whether its influence is consistent across technological contexts. Study 3 places IT mindfulness in a nomological network and tests the construct’s utility for predicting more active system use (e.g., trying to innovate and deep structure usage) as well as more automatic system use (e.g., continuance intention). Our primary contribution includes the development and validation of a scale for IT mindfulness. In addition, we demonstrate that IT mindfulness (1) differs from important existing concepts such as cognitive absorption, (2) can be manipulated, (3) more closely relates to active system use than automatic system use, and (4) provides more predictive power within the IS context than general trait mindfulness.
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One teenager at a time : developing self-awareness and critical thinking in adolescents
\"This book offers educators and youth advocates a comprehensive set of discussions and activities to help develop critical thinking, compassion, self-awareness, and resilience in adolescents. It is designed to complement the unique social and developmental attributes of students this age\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Electrophysiological and Behavioral Markers of Empathy-Mindfulness Associations in Novices: Evidence for ”Empathic Affectfulness
Objectives. This study explored how trait and state mindfulness relate to empathic traits in Indian novice meditators, using behavioral and electroencephalography (EEG) measures. Methods. Two independent samples were utilized. Sample 1 (n = 580) provided self-report data assessing empathy, mindfulness, and personality traits. Sample 2 (n = 97) underwent Ānāpānasati-based meditation, wherein EEG-based neural oscillations and self-reported feedback were assessed. Results. Trait mindfulness was positively associated with perspective taking (PT) and negatively with personal distress (PD), independent of personality traits. State mindfulness showed feeble associations: discontinuity of mind (DOM) correlated positively with PD and prefrontal cortex (PFC) beta power, while theory of mind (TOM) positively related with PT. PT was also linked to a lower PFC gamma; thereby, both PT and PD possibly reflected impedance towards novice meditative states. Post hoc, empathic affectfulness (EA)—conceptualized as “PT minus PD”—emerged as a potential marker of affect-conscious empathy, showing modest state-wise association with lower DOM and PFC beta-gamma activity, and strong positive interrelationship with trait mindfulness. Conclusions. PD consistently demonstrated negative correlations with mindfulness. In contrast, PT, although positively associated with EA and trait mindfulness, seemed to hinder novice meditation by promoting unnecessary mentalizing in state contexts. Overall, the empirical findings supported EA plausibly as a novel mechanism.
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Positive personal resources and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: resilience, optimism, hope, courage, trait mindfulness, and self-efficacy in breast cancer patients and survivors
Purpose
This study aims to understand the association between positive personal resources (i.e., optimism, hope, courage, trait mindfulness, and self-efficacy), resilience, and psychological distress (i.e., anxiety, depression, stress) in women with breast cancer and breast cancer survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hypothesized that personal positive resources can directly influence resilience, which in turn prevented psychological distress.
Methods
The research sample consisted of 409 Italian women (49% patients, 51% survivors) who were administered a questionnaire to assess positive resources, resiliency, and distress. structural equation model (SEM) analysis was carried out to confirm the hypothetical-theoretical model.
Results
Personal positive resources had a direct positive effect on resilience, which prevented from distress. These results were observed across cancer patients and survivors, and regardless the level of direct exposure to COVID-19.
Conclusions
In both patients and survivors, the relationships between positive personal resources, resilience, and psychological distress is strong enough to be not influenced by the level of exposure to COVID-19 and despite COVID-19 pandemic caused the disruption of active treatment plans and delays in routine check-ups.
Implications for cancer survivors
Implications of this study suggest the urgency to screen positive resources and to identify women with lower resilience and a potentially higher susceptibility to develop psychological distress. For these women, our findings suggest the implementation of psychological interventions that build resilience.
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Be(com)ing Real
Although authentic leadership has been shown to inform a host of positive outcomes at work, the literature has dedicated little attention to identifying its personal antecedents and effective means to enhance it. Building on strong theoretical links and initial evidence, we propose mindfulness as a predictor of authentic leadership. In 2 multi-source field studies (cross-sectional and experimental), we investigated (a) the role of leaders’ trait mindfulness and (b) the effectiveness of a low-dose mindfulness intervention for perceptions of authentic leadership. The results of both studies confirmed a positive relation between leaders’ trait mindfulness and authentic leadership as rated by both followers and leaders. Moreover, the results of study 2 showed that the intervention increased authentic leadership via gains in leaders’ mindfulness, as perceived by both followers and leaders. In addition, we found that the intervention positively extended to followers’ work attitudes via authentic leadership. The paper concludes with a discussion of the study’s implications for leadership theory and leader development.
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No Time for Ethics: How and When Time Pressure Leads to Abusive Supervisory Behavior
We explore in this study whether, how, and when time pressure leads to abusive supervisory behavior. Based on the attentional focus model, we propose that time pressure impairs supervisors’ moral awareness, which increases their subsequent abusive supervisory behavior. We also propose that the trait mindfulness of supervisors mitigates the indirect effect of time pressure on abusive supervisory behavior through moral awareness. Based on an experiment conducted by using eye-tracking methods, Study 1 tests and provides support for the relationships between time pressure and moral awareness (N = 53). In Study 2, we test our full theoretical model through an experience sampling methodology for 10 workdays with data from 61 supervisors and their subordinates. Results revealed that time pressure had an indirect and positive effect on abusive supervisory behavior through the supervisors’ moral awareness. Such an indirect effect was stronger when the trait mindfulness of the supervisors was low rather than high. We conclude this research by discussing the theoretical and practical implications of our findings as well as future research directions.
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Moral Burden of Bottom-Line Pursuits: How and When Perceptions of Top Management Bottom-Line Mentality Inhibit Supervisors' Ethical Leadership Practices
Drawing on theoretical work on humans' adaptive capacity, we propose that supervisors' perception of top management's high bottom-line mentality (BLM) has a dysfunctional effect on their ethical leadership practices. Specifically, we suggest that these perceptions hinder supervisors' empathy, which eventuates in less ethical leadership practices. We also investigate, in a first-stage moderated mediation model, how supervisors high in trait mindfulness are resistant to the ill effects of perceptions of top management's high BLM. Supervisors high (versus low) in this trait are less likely to respond to perceptions of top management's high BLM with reduced empathy that then hinders ethical leadership. Results from a multi-wave, multi-source sample of working adults from the Chinese high technology industry provide general support for our theoretical model. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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The relationship between preschool teacher trait mindfulness and teacher-child relationship quality: the chain mediating role of emotional intelligence and empathy
The teacher-child relationship plays an important role in children’s future development. However, the existing research mainly focuses on the influence of preschool teachers’ external conditions on the teacher-student relationship, while the research on the influence of teachers’ internal psychological characteristics on the teacher-student relationship is relatively lacking. In this study, three hundred and seventeen preschool teachers were tested were tested with Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, Emotional Intelligence Scale, Chinese Interpersonal Response Index, and Teacher-student Relationship Scale. The results showed that trait mindfulness positively predicted the quality of parent-teacher relationship (β = 0.173,
p
= 0.026). Emotional intelligence played a mediating role in trait mindfulness and teacher-child relationship quality (β = 0.118,
p
= 0.004), and empathy played a mediating role in trait mindfulness and teacher-child relationship quality (β = 0.112,
p
= 0.001). Meanwhile, emotional intelligence and empathy played a chain mediating role in trait mindfulness and parent-teacher relationship quality (β = 0.044,
p
= 0.038). On the one hand, this study enriches attachment theory. The conclusions of this study verify the diversity of proximal factors in attachment theory, and confirm the influence of teachers’ own characteristics and abilities on the teacher-child relationship quality. On the other hand, by exploring the factors affecting the teacher-child relationship quality, we can find ways to improve teacher-child relationship from a new perspective, and then provide some new methods and approaches for improving the quality of preschool teacher-child relationship.
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