Date created: | Last Updated:

Category: Project

Description: Previous research has established the important relationship between affect dynamics (how people’s feelings fluctuate from moment-to-moment) and psychological well-being. However, we still do not know what underlies individual differences in affect dynamics or how we might intervene to produce healthier patterns of affect dynamics This study aims to examine the causal effect of brief (momentary) mindfulness practice on affect dynamics, using a novel cross-classified experimental design, in which an intervention was randomized within persons, between persons and between occasions. We hypothesize, in line with Keng & Tong (2016) and Rowland et al. (2018), that mindfulness will be associated with more adaptive patterns of affect dynamics, such as lower negative reactivity (i.e., less extreme responses to negative events) and lower inertia (i.e., less affective persistence over time).