Contemplating critique: mindfulness attenuates self-esteem and self-regulatory impacts of negative feedback
| dc.contributor.author | Kriz, Tiffany | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lyddy, Christopher J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Good, Darren J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stephens, John Paul | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-16T15:29:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-06-16T15:29:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Objectives: Receiving feedback is vital to learning and job performance, but this can provoke undesirable psychological responses, including loss of self-esteem and self-regulatory depletion. While mindfulness can attenuate responses to selfthreats, it is unknown if this occurs following self-esteem threats, including negative feedback. This experimental study investigates a proposed moderated mediation model of how brief mindfulness meditation may attenuate these psychological responses to negative feedback. Methods: The proposed model was tested through a randomized 2×2 factor experiment with a sample of undergraduate students (N=163). Participants completed a performance task (the Remote Associates Test), followed by an audio guided mindfulness induction (mindfulness meditation v. mind-wandering active control). After receiving randomized performance feedback, either negative or positive feedback, participants reported their state self-esteem and self-regulatory depletion. We modeled feedback as predicting self-regulatory depletion through self-esteem, and brief mindfulness meditation moderating the relationship between feedback and self-esteem, and through this infuencing the indirect relationship of feedback and self-regulatory depletion. Results: Findings provided support for the proposed moderated mediation model. Inducing mindfulness via brief meditation weakened the relationship between negative feedback and decreased self-esteem, thus contributing to lower self-regulatory depletion. Conclusions: The results provide evidence that inducing mindfulness through meditation attenuates psychological responses to negative feedback, including loss of state self-esteem and self-regulatory depletion. This adds to understanding of the intersection of mindfulness practice, the self, and practice in educational and workplace domains. | |
| dc.description.uri | https://library.macewan.ca/cgi-bin/SFX/url.pl/DSP | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Lyddy, C.J., Good, D.J., Kriz, T.D. et al. Contemplating Critique: Mindfulness Attenuates Self-Esteem and Self-Regulatory Impacts of Negative Feedback. Mindfulness 13, 1521–1531 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-01894-8 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-01894-8 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/3139 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved | |
| dc.subject | mindfulness | |
| dc.subject | brief mediation | |
| dc.subject | negative feedback | |
| dc.subject | state self-esteem | |
| dc.subject | self-regulatory depletion | |
| dc.title | Contemplating critique: mindfulness attenuates self-esteem and self-regulatory impacts of negative feedback | en |
| dc.type | Article |