The Relationship between Mindfulness and Emotional Recovery: A Physiological Study on Resilience Test
摘要
The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between mindfulness and resilience. Resilience is defined as emotional recovery measured using the physiological indicator of skin conductance responses. Eighty-one healthy volunteers in an analogue laboratory completed the Trait Toronto Mindfulness Scale in Thai with curiosity and decentering subscales. Participants were exposed to a stressful emotional phase with 40 negative affective pictures. Resilience was measured by the speed of emotional recovery, dividing the average decrease in skin conductance response from exposure to its return to baseline levels, by the time taken for responses to reach initial baseline levels. Curiosity negatively correlated with the speed of emotional recovery and uniquely predicted the speed of recovery with hierarchical linear regression. The findings suggest that higher curiosity is related to slower emotional recovery, but decentering did not significantly associate with the speed of emotional recovery. The study, therefore, postulates that different dimensions of trait mindfulness have different relationships with physiological resilience. The implications of the study contribute to the literature on mental well-being and mindfulness. Limitations of the study were discussed.