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Neuroscience
Emotional Intelligence
Stress and Resilience
Sleep and Fatigue
Distraction
Workplace and Safety
Books and Special Issue Journals
The following is a sample of related peer-reviewed research articles, books, and special issue journals.
Neuroscience
The following example references provide a robust overview of the intersection between mindfulness practices and neuroscience research.
Chiesa, A., & Serretti, A. (2010). A systematic review of neurobiological and clinical features of mindfulness meditations. Psychological Medicine, 40(8), 1239-1252. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291709991747
Davidson, R. J., & McEwen, B. S. (2012). Social influences on neuroplasticity: Stress and interventions to promote well-being. Nature Neuroscience, 15(5), 689-695. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3093
Fox, K. C. R., Dixon, M. L., Nijeboer, S., Girn, M., Floman, J. L., Lifshitz, M., … & Christoff, K. (2016). Functional neuroanatomy of meditation: A review and meta-analysis of 78 functional neuroimaging investigations. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 65, 208-228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.03.021
Fox, K. C. R., Nijeboer, S., Dixon, M. L., Floman, J. L., Ellamil, M., Rumak, S. P., … & Christoff, K. (2014). Is meditation associated with altered brain structure? A systematic review and meta-analysis of morphometric neuroimaging in meditation practitioners. Neuroscience & Biobehavior Reviews, 43, 48-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.03.016
Gotink, R. A., Chu, P., Busschbach, J. J. V., Benson, H., Fricchione, G. L., & Hunink, M. M. (2015). Standardised mindfulness-based interventions in healthcare: An overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of RCTs. PLOS ONE, 10(4), e0124344. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124344
Goyal, M., Singh, S., Sibinga, E. M. S., Gould, N. F., Rowland-Seymour, A., Sharma, R., … & Haythornthwaite, J. A. (2014). Meditation programs for psychological stress and well-being: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Internal Medicine, 174(3), 357-368. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.13018
Hölzel, B. K., Lazar, S. W., Gard, T., Schuman-Olivier, Z., Vago, D. R., & Ott, U. (2011). How does mindfulness meditation work? Proposing mechanisms of action from a conceptual and neural perspective. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6(6), 537-559. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691611419671
Kang, D. H., Jo, H. J., Jung, W. H., Kim, S. H., Jung, Y. H., Choi, C. H., … & Jang, J. H. (2013). The effect of meditation on brain structure: Cortical thickness mapping and diffusion tensor imaging. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(1), 27-33. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nss056
Kilpatrick, L. A., Suyenobu, B. Y., Smith, S. R., Bueller, J. A., Goodman, T., Creswell, J. D., … & Naliboff, B. D. (2011). Impact of mindfulness-based stress reduction training on intrinsic brain connectivity. NeuroImage, 56(1), 290-298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.02.034
Lomas, T., Medina, J. C., Ivtzan, I., Rupprecht, S., Eiroa-Orosa, F. J., & Hart, R. (2019). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of mindfulness-based interventions on the well-being of healthcare professionals. Mindfulness, 10, 1193-1216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-018-1062-5
Lutz, A., Slagter, H. A., Dunne, J. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2008). Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12(4), 163-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2008.01.005
Marchand, W. R. (2014). Neural mechanisms of mindfulness and meditation: Evidence from neuroimaging studies. World Journal of Radiology, 6(7), 471-479. https://doi.org/10.4329/wjr.v6.i7.471
Tang, Y. Y., Hölzel, B. K., & Posner, M. I. (2015). The neuroscience of mindfulness meditation. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 16(4), 213-225. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn3916
Taren, A. A., Creswell, J. D., & Gianaros, P. J. (2013). Dispositional mindfulness co-varies with smaller amygdala and caudate volumes in community adults. PLoS ONE, 8(5), e64574. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064574
Wielgosz, J., Goldberg, S. B., Kral, T. R. A., Dunne, J. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2019). Mindfulness meditation and psychopathology. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 15, 285-316. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-021815-093423
Zeidan, F., Johnson, S. K., Diamond, B. J., David, Z., & Goolkasian, P. (2010). Mindfulness meditation improves cognition: Evidence of brief mental training. Consciousness and Cognition, 19(2), 597-605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2010.03.014
Zeidan, F., & Vago, D. R. (2016). Mindfulness meditation-based pain relief: A mechanistic account. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1373(1), 114-127. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13153
Emotional Intelligence
The following example references provide a comprehensive overview of the intersection between emotional intelligence and work-related outcomes.
Ashkanasy, N. M., & Daus, C. S. (2005). Rumors of the death of emotional intelligence in organizational behavior are vastly exaggerated. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26(4), 441-452. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.320
Boyatzis, R. E., Goleman, D., & Rhee, K. (2000). Clustering competence in emotional intelligence: Insights from the Emotional Competence Inventory (ECI). Handbook of Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Development, Assessment, and Application at Home, School, and in the Workplace, 343-362.
Brackett, M. A., Palomera, R., Mojsa-Kaja, J., Reyes, M. R., & Salovey, P. (2010). Emotion-regulation ability, burnout, and job satisfaction among British secondary-school teachers. Psychology in the Schools, 47(4), 406-417. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.20478
Brackett, M. A., Rivers, S. E., & Salovey, P. (2011). Emotional intelligence: Implications for personal, social, academic, and workplace success. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5(1), 88-103. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00334.x
Brackett, M. A., & Mayer, J. D. (2003). Convergent, discriminant, and incremental validity of competing measures of emotional intelligence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29(9), 1147-1158. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167203254596
Brackett, M. A., Warner, R. M., & Bosco, J. S. (2005). Emotional intelligence and relationship quality among couples. Personal Relationships, 12(2), 197-212. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1350-4126.2005.00111.x
Carmeli, A. (2003). The relationship between emotional intelligence and work attitudes, behavior and outcomes: An examination among senior managers. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 18(8), 788-813. https://doi.org/10.1108/02683940310511881
Cherniss, C., & Goleman, D. (2001). Training for emotional intelligence: A model. The International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 9(2), 159-170. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb028931
Chu, L. C. (2010). The benefits of meditation vis-à-vis emotional intelligence, perceived stress and negative mental health. Stress and Health, 26(2), 169-180. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.1289
Côté, S., & Miners, C. T. H. (2006). Emotional intelligence, cognitive intelligence, and job performance. Administrative Science Quarterly, 51(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.51.1.1
Goleman, D. (1998). What makes a leader? Harvard Business Review, 76(6), 93-102.
Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ. Bantam Books.
Goleman, D. (1998). Working with emotional intelligence. Bantam Books.
Goleman, D., Boyatzis, R., & McKee, A. (2002). Primal leadership: Realizing the power of emotional intelligence. Harvard Business School Press.
Goleman, D. (2013). Focus: The hidden driver of excellence. Harper.
Joseph, D. L., Jin, J., Newman, D. A., & O’Boyle, E. H. (2015). Why does self-reported emotional intelligence predict job performance? A meta-analytic investigation of mixed EI. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(2), 298-342. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037681
Law, K. S., Wong, C. S., & Song, L. J. (2004). The construct and criterion validity of emotional intelligence and its potential utility for management studies. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89(3), 483-496. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.89.3.483
Lopes, P. N., Grewal, D., Kadis, J., Gall, M., & Salovey, P. (2006). Evidence that emotional intelligence is related to job performance and affect and attitudes at work. Psicothema, 18, 132-138.
Mayer, J. D., Roberts, R. D., & Barsade, S. G. (2008). Human abilities: Emotional intelligence. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 507-536. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.59.103006.093646
Rivers, S. E., Brackett, M. A., Katulak, N. A., & Salovey, P. (2007). Enhancing academic performance and social and emotional competence with the RULER feeling words curriculum. Learning and Individual Differences, 17(2), 112-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2007.10.002
Schutte, N. S., Malouff, J. M., Thorsteinsson, E. B., Bhullar, N., & Rooke, S. E. (2007). A meta-analytic investigation of the relationship between emotional intelligence and health. Personality and Individual Differences, 42(6), 921-933. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2006.09.003
Schutte, N. S., & Malouff, J. M. (2011). Emotional intelligence mediates the relationship between mindfulness and subjective well-being. Personality and Individual Differences, 50(7), 1116-1119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.01.037
Siegling, A. B., & Petrides, K. V. (2014). Trait emotional intelligence moderates the relationship between mindfulness and anxiety. Personality and Individual Differences, 66, 33-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.03.013
Wong, C. S., & Law, K. S. (2002). The effects of leader and follower emotional intelligence on performance and attitude: An exploratory study. The Leadership Quarterly, 13(3), 243-274. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1048-9843(02)00099-1
Stress & Resilience
The following example references provide a solid foundation for understanding the relationship between mindfulness, stress, and resilience in various contexts.
Chiesa, A., & Serretti, A. (2009). Mindfulness-based stress reduction for stress management in healthy people: A review and meta-analysis. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 15(5), 593-600. https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2008.0495
Creswell, J. D., & Lindsay, E. K. (2014). How does mindfulness training affect health? A mindfulness stress buffering account. Current directions in psychological science, 23(6), 401-407.
Goyal, M., Singh, S., Sibinga, E. M. S., Gould, N. F., Rowland-Seymour, A., Sharma, R., … & Haythornthwaite, J. A. (2014). Meditation programs for psychological stress and well-being: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Internal Medicine, 174(3), 357-368. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.13018
Denkova, E., Zanesco, A. P., Rogers, S. L., & Jha, A. P. (2020). Is resilience trainable? An initial study comparing mindfulness and relaxation training in firefighters. Psychiatry Research, 285, 112794.
Grabbe, L., et. al. (2021). Impact of a Resiliency Training to Support the Mental Well-being of Front-line Workers:. Med Care 2021; 59: 616–621).
Groupe, D. et al., (2021). The Impact of Mindfulness Training on Police Officer Stress, Mental Health, and Salivary Cortisol Levels. Frontiers in Psychology, 03 September 2021, Sec. Health Psychology, Volume 12 – 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720753
Joyce, S., Shand, F., Bryant, R. A., Lal, T. J., & Harvey, S. B. (2018). Mindfulness-based resilience training in the workplace: Pilot study of the internet-based Resilience@Work (RAW) Mindfulness Program. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(9), e10326. https://doi.org/10.2196/10326
Keng, S. L., Smoski, M. J., & Robins, C. J. (2011). Effects of mindfulness on psychological health: A review of empirical studies. Clinical Psychology Review, 31(6), 1041-1056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2011.04.006
Lomas, T., Ivtzan, I., & Fu, C. H. Y. (2015). A systematic review of the impact of mindfulness on the well-being of healthcare professionals. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 71(6), 567-581. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22120
Malinowski, P., & Lim, H. J. (2015). Mindfulness at work: Positive affect, hope, and optimism mediate the relationship between dispositional mindfulness, work engagement, and well-being. Mindfulness, 6(6), 1250-1262. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-015-0388-5
Neff, K. D., & Germer, C. K. (2013). A pilot study and randomized controlled trial of the mindful self-compassion program. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 69(1), 28-44. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.21923
Smith, B. W., Shelley, B. M., Dalen, J., Wiggins, K., Tooley, E., Bernard, J., & McGonigal, K. (2008). A pilot study comparing the effects of mindfulness-based and cognitive-behavioral stress reduction. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 14(3), 251-258. https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2007.0641
van der Riet, P., Levett-Jones, T., & Aquino-Russell, C. (2018). The effectiveness of mindfulness meditation for nurses and nursing students: An integrated literature review. Nurse Education Today, 65, 201-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2018.03.018
Zhang, J. Y., Xu, Z. L., Liu, Y., Chen, Y., & Wang, J. (2018). The effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction on the mental health of nurses in China: A systematic review. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27(9-10), e1287-e1301
Sleep and Fatigue
The following example references provide a solid foundation for understanding the relationship between mindfulness, sleep, health, and safety.
Bérastégui, P., & Nyssen, A. S. (2022). Fatigue Risk Management System as a Practical Approach to Improve Resilience in 24/7 Operations. In Advancing Resilient Performance (pp. 27-40). Springer, Cham.
Black, D. et al. Mindfulness Meditation and Improvement in Sleep Quality and Daytime Impairment Among Older Adults With Sleep Disturbances: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2015 April 1: 175(4): 494-501. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.8081.
Coplen, M. et. al. Brief Mindfulness Practices and Sleep: A Systematic Review. Work, Stress, & Health 2023 VIRTUAL. 15th Int’l WSH Conference, American Psychological Association, Nov. 8-12th, 2023.
Coplen, M. K., & Snow, J. Z. (2015). From transportation fatigue research to effective practice: the case for evaluation. Reviews of human factors and ergonomics, 10(1), 272-302.
Coplen, M. K., & Morrow, S. (2011). Training and Certification of Work Schedule Managers May Improve Shift Scheduling Practices (No. RR11-03). United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration.
Creswell, J. D., & Lindsay, E. K. (2014). How does mindfulness training affect health? A mindfulness stress buffering account. Current directions in psychological science, 23(6), 401-407.
da Silva Vallim, J. R., Mello, E. C. C. R., Fagundes, H. G., Lima, G. S. A., Tsuji, H. M. S., Xylaras, B. D. P., … & D’Almeida, V. (2022). Feasibility and the effects of an online mindfulness-based health promotion program on college students’ sleep, circadian rhythms, and well-being: Protocol for a randomized trial [CIRCAMIND study]. European Journal of Integrative Medicine, 102127.
Darwent, D., Dawson, D., Paterson, J. L., Roach, G. D., & Ferguson, S. A. (2015). Managing fatigue: It really is about sleep. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 82, 20-26.
Denkova, E., Zanesco, A. P., Rogers, S. L., & Jha, A. P. (2020). Is resilience trainable? An initial study comparing mindfulness and relaxation training in firefighters. Psychiatry Research, 285, 112794.
Hassirim, Z., Lim, E. C., Lo, J. C., & Lim, J. (2019). Pre-sleep cognitive arousal decreases following a 4-week introductory mindfulness course. Mindfulness, 10(11), 2429-2438.
Howell, A. J., Digdon, N. L., Buro, K., & Sheptycki, A. R. (2008). Relations among mindfulness, well-being, and sleep. Personality and Individual Differences, 45(8), 773-777.
Hülsheger, U. R., Feinholdt, A., & Nübold, A. (2015). A low‐dose mindfulness intervention and recovery from work: Effects on psychological detachment, sleep quality, and sleep duration. Journal of occupational and organizational psychology, 88(3), 464-489.
Jha, A. P., Stanley, E. A., Kiyonaga, A., Wong, L., & Gelfand, L. (2010). Examining the protective effects of mindfulness training on working memory capacity and affective experience. Emotion, 10(1), 54.
Kim, J. J., Oldham, M., Fernando, A. T., & Kirby, J. N. (2021). Compassion mediates poor sleep quality and mental health outcomes. Mindfulness, 12(5), 1252-1261.
Pattanashetty, R., Sathiamma, S., Talakkad, S., Nityananda, P., Trichur, R., & Kutty, B. M. (2010). Practitioners of vipassana meditation exhibit enhanced slow wave sleep and REM sleep states across different age groups. Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 8(1), 34-41.
Pilcher, J. and Morris, D. “Sleep & Organizational Behavior: Implications for Workplace Productivity & Safety.” Frontiers in Psychology. Jan. 2020, Vol. 11, Article 45
Pilcher, June J., and Michael K. Coplen. “Work/Rest Cycles in Railroad Operations: Effects of Shorter than 24-h Shift Work Schedules and on-Call Schedules on Sleep.” Ergonomics 43, no. 5 (May 2000): 573–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/001401300184260.
Pilcher, J. and Morris, D. “Sleep and Organizational Behavior: Implications for Workplace Productivity and Safety.” Frontiers in Psychology. January 2020, Vol. 11, Article 45.
Simione, L., Raffone, A., & Mirolli, M. (2020). Stress as the missing link between mindfulness, sleep quality, and well-being: a cross-sectional study. Mindfulness, 11(2), 439-451.
Sprajcer, M., Thomas, M. J., Sargent, C., Crowther, M. E., Boivin, D. B., Wong, I. S., … & Dawson, D. (2021). How effective are Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMS)? A review. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 106398.
Zanesco, A. P., Denkova, E., Rogers, S. L., MacNulty, W. K., & Jha, A. P. (2019). Mindfulness training as cognitive training in high-demand cohorts: An initial study in elite military servicemembers. Progress in brain research, 244, 323-354.
Ziebertz, C. M., Beckers, D. G., Van Hooff, M. L., Kompier, M. A., & Geurts, S. A. (2017). The effect on sleep of being on‐call: an experimental field study. Journal of Sleep Research, 26(6), 809-815.
Distraction
The following example references provide a solid foundation for understanding the intersection of mindfulness and distraction in organizational settings.
Brewer, J. A., Worhunsky, P. D., Gray, J. R., Tang, Y. Y., Weber, J., & Kober, H. (2011). Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity and connectivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(50), 20254-20259.
Casner, S. M., & Schooler, J. W. (2015). Vigilance impossible: Diligence, distraction, and daydreaming all lead to failures in a practical monitoring task. Consciousness and Cognition, 35, 33-41.
Darwin, J., & Melling, A. (2011). Mindfulness and Situation Awareness. SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIV (UNITED KINGDOM).
Forster, S., & Lavie, N. (2014). Distracted by your mind? Individual differences in distractibility predict mind wandering. Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory, and cognition, 40(1), 251.
Jha et al. “Minds “At Attention”: Mindfulness Training Curbs Attentional Lapses in Military Cohorts.” PLoS ONE 10 (2015): n. pag.
Killingsworth, M. A., & Gilbert, D. T. (2010). A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. Science, 330(6006), 932-932.
Kass, S. J., VanWormer, L. A., Mikulas, W. L., Legan, S., & Bumgarner, D. (2011). Effects of mindfulness training on simulated driving: Preliminary results. Mindfulness, 2(4), 236-241.
McEvoy, S. P., Stevenson, M. R., & Woodward, M. (2007). The prevalence of, and factors associated with, serious crashes involving a distracting activity. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 39(3), 475-482.
Mooneyham, B. W., & Schooler, J. W. (2013). The costs and benefits of mind-wandering: a review. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 67(1), 11.
Mrazek, M. D., Smallwood, J., & Schooler, J. W. (2012). Mindfulness and mind-wandering: finding convergence through opposing constructs. Emotion, 12(3), 442.
Nolan, C. (2017). Safety mindfulness: the incorporation of low-dose mindfulness as a leading-edge safety intervention (Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University).
Rahl, H. A., Lindsay, E. K., Pacilio, L. E., Brown, K. W., & Creswell, J. D. (2017). Brief mindfulness meditation training reduces mind wandering: The critical role of acceptance. Emotion, 17(2), 224.
Regan, M. A., Hallett, C., & Gordon, C. P. (2011). Driver distraction and driver inattention: Definition, relationship and taxonomy. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 43(5), 1771-1781.
Robison, M. K., & Unsworth, N. (2015). Working memory capacity offers resistance to mind‐wandering and external distraction in a context‐specific manner. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 29(5), 680-690.
Rogers, M., Zhang, Y., Kaber, D., Liang, Y., & Gangakhedkar, S. (2011, July). The effects of visual and cognitive distraction on driver situation awareness. In International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics (pp. 186-195). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Seli, P., Carriere, J. S., & Smilek, D. (2015). Not all mind wandering is created equal: Dissociating deliberate from spontaneous mind wandering. Psychological research, 79(5), 750-758.
Verhaeghen, P. (2021). Mindfulness as Attention Training: Meta-Analyses on the Links Between Attention Performance and Mindfulness Interventions, Long-Term Meditation Practice, and Train Mindfulness. Mindfulness, 12, 564-581. https://doi.org/10.10007/s12671-020-01532-1.
Young, K. L., Koppel, S., Stephens, A. N., Osborne, R., Chambers, R., & Hassed, C. (2019). Mindfulness predicts driver engagement in distracting activities. Mindfulness, 10(5), 913-922.
Zanesco, A. et. al. (2019). Mindfulness training as cognitive training in high-demand cohorts: An initial study in elite military servicemembers. Progress in Brain Research. Volume 244, 2019, pages 323-354.
Workplace & Safety
The following example references provide a solid foundation for understanding the intersection of mindfulness and safety in organizational settings.
Biron, M., & van Veldhoven, M. (2016). When control becomes a liability rather than an asset: Comparing home and office days among part-time teleworkers. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 37(8), 1317-1337. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2106
Good, D. J., Lyddy, C. J., Glomb, T. M., Bono, J. E., Brown, K. W., Duffy, M. K., … & Lazar, S. W. (2016). Contemplating mindfulness at work: An integrative review. Journal of Management, 42(1), 114-142. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206315617003
Grover, S. L., Teo, S. T. T., Pick, D., Roche, M., & Newton, C. J. (2017). Mindfulness as a personal resource to reduce work stress in the job demands-resources model. Stress and Health, 426-436. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.2726
Hülsheger, U. R., Alberts, H. J. E. M., Feinholdt, A., & Lang, J. W. B. (2013). Benefits of mindfulness at work: The role of mindfulness in emotion regulation, emotional exhaustion, and job satisfaction. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98(2), 310-25. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031313
Kiken, L. G., & Shook, N. J. (2011). Looking up: Mindfulness increases positive judgments and reduces negativity bias. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2(4), 425-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550610396585
Koppel, Sjaan et al. “Do mindfulness interventions improve road safety? A systematic review.” Accident; analysis and prevention 123 (2019): 88-98.
Limphaibool, W. et. al. (2022). Collective Mindfulness and Organizational Resilience in Times of Crisis. Change Management : An International Journal.
Malinowski, P., & Lim, H. J. (2015). Mindfulness at work: Positive affect, hope, and optimism mediate the relationship between dispositional mindfulness, work engagement, and well-being. Mindfulness, 6(6), 1250-1262. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-015-0388-5
Sutcliffe, K. M., & Vogus, T. J. (2003). Organizing for resilience. Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline, 94-110.
Sutcliffe, K., Vogus, T. and Dane, E. Mindfulness in Organizations: A Cross-Level Review. In Annu.Rev. Organ. Psychol. Organ. Behav. 2016. 3:55-81.
Tan, et. al, 2023. Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Leadership Training on Leadership Behaviors and Effectiveness. Mindfulness (2023), 14:2181-2194.
Books and Special Issue Journals
The following example sample books and special issue journals provide a solid foundation and significance of the applications of mindfulness at work.
Davidson, R. J., & Goleman, D. (2017). Altered traits: Science reveals how meditation changes your mind, brain, and body. Avery.
Hanson, R., & Mendius, R. (2009). Buddha’s brain: The practical neuroscience of happiness, love, and wisdom. New Harbinger Publications.
Masood, and Karajovic (2021). Workplace Mindfulness: The role of HR management in Engendering a Mindful Workplace, p. 622-279, in The Rutledge Companion to Mindfulness at Work. Dhiman, Ed.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes: Special Issue. Mindfulness at Work: Pushing Theoretical and Empirical Boundaries. July, 2020
Current Opinion in Psychology. Special Issue: Mindfulness. Vol 28, August 2019
Current Opinion in Psychology. Special Issue: Emotion Regulation. Vol. 3, June 2015
Psychological Assessment. Special Issue: Mindfulness. Vol. 28, No. 7, 2016
Siegel, D. J. (2007). The mindful brain: Reflection and attunement in the cultivation of well-being. W.W. Norton & Company.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience: Special Issue on Mindfulness Neuroscience. Vol. 8, Issue 1, January 2013
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Special Issue on Mindfulness Neuroscience. Vol. 8, Issue 1, January 2013
Emotion. Special Issue: Mindfulness and Emotion. Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2010.
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