Moderating Impact of Dispositional Mindfulness in the Relationship Between Future Expectancies and Psychological Well-Being.
Psychological reports June 1, 2025 Hasan Erguler, Nuno Ferreira, Marios Adonis et al. 2 citations
Dispositional mindfulness—the tendency to be aware and nonjudgmental of present-moment experience—may influence how vividly people imagine future events and how those images relate to distress. In two studies with healthy adults, no link was found between mindfulness facets and perceived risk of positive or negative future events. However, the nonreactivity facet of mindfulness moderated the connection between vividness of negative mental imagery and psychological distress: among those with higher nonreactivity, the usual association between vivid negative imagery and distress was weaker. This suggests that being nonreactive to inner experience can buffer the emotional impact of vivid negative future imaginings, pointing to a potential mechanism for mindfulness-based interventions.