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Effects of Brief Mindfulness Training on Dispositional Greed and Related Constructs in Resource Dilemmas
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
Spring 2022
Abstract
Mindfulness has proven to benefit individuals in a multitude of settings such as workplace, healthcare, and academia. Due to the plethora of environmental issues humans currently face, we were interested to see if mindfulness is related to ecologically responsible behavior and conservation of resources in a social dilemmas task. We hypothesized that mindful individuals and individuals who participated in a brief mindfulness training in Study 2 would exhibit more ecologically responsible behavior and use fewer resources. In Study 1, we hypothesized that trait mindfulness would be positively correlated and dispositional greed would be negatively correlated with ecologically responsible behavior and resource use. Study 1 found trait mindfulness was negatively correlated to dispositional greed, and greed was positively correlated with trees cut in a resource dilemmas simulation, “The Forest Management Game.” Contrary to hypothesis, dispositional greed and trait mindfulness were not correlated with self-reported ecologically responsible behaviors. Study 2 was an experiment that explored if mindfulness training would affect trees cut in in the Forest Management Game. Loving-kindness and Body Calm mindfulness training were implemented and compared to a Music-only control condition. As predicted, participants in the brief mindfulness training conditions cut fewer trees compared to those in the Music-only condition. However, training condition had no immediate effect on state mindfulness scores, suggesting that the brief training had limited impact on mindfulness. Thus, this study provided limited support brief mindfulness training increases cooperation in resource dilemmas. The possibilities raised by this research are compelling, but the questions remain unanswered.
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Details
- Title
- Effects of Brief Mindfulness Training on Dispositional Greed and Related Constructs in Resource Dilemmas
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Contributors
- Sherry Schneider (Advisor)David Strohmetz (Committee Member)
- Number of pages
- 61
- Identifiers
- 99380090296806600
- Academic Unit
- Usha Kundu, MD College of Health; Psychology
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida