| Description |
The study of dispositional mindfulness has generally focused on intrapersonal processes to understand how mindfulness promotes health and well-being. However, interpersonal processes may also contribute to the effects of dispositional mindfulness on these outcomes. Interpersonal processes may also contribute to the similarly beneficial effects of the related construct of nonattachment, which refers to freedom from unhealthy cognitive fixations on objects and others. The interpersonal perspective provides a well- established conceptual and measurement framework to examine the relationship of dispositional mindfulness and nonattachment with interpersonal processes. In this study of undergraduates, we established the relationship of dispositional mindfulness and nonattachment to interpersonal attributes and psychosocial outcomes. In two samples (total N = 614), dispositional mindfulness factors and nonattachment consistently associated with warm and dominant interpersonal style and goals. Additionally, mediational analyses indicated that mindfulness was consistently associated with more social support and with less interpersonal conflict, interpersonal problems, and loneliness, often by way of these dominant and warm interpersonal processes. Thus, interpersonal processes may influence aspects of health and well being associated with mindfulness. |
