week 1
Jan 18, 2014
The research paper I read was called Relationship between dispositional mindfulness and substance use. The purpose of this paper is if you increase the hours of mindfulness or meditation then that will decrease the number of cravings for the substance in question. The methods used in this lab were they used an outpatient substance abuse program where each subject had to complete an inpatient program, there were 281 participants. They then separated them in to groups by race, sex, age, and substance of chose. They then use a questionnaire called the Likert scale Five Factor Mindfulness questionnaire to measure the state of mindfulness of each subject. The questionnaire included sections on awareness, observing, describing, nonjudgment, and nonreactivity. They also measured the amount of substance use by using the severity of dependence scale. So over a period of time the subjects were to meditate on a daily bases and then they were to take to the questionnaire and a drug test and the test results were gathered. The results or the outcome of the research showed that there is no connection between mindfulness and substance use. In the results even the subjects that could cope well still showed no connection between mindfulness and substance use. So in conclusion the hypothesis was incorrect that there is no connection between mindfulness and substance use. Also, the determining factor is how well the subject can cope without the substance.
References
Sarah Bowen. Matthew C Enkema. March 2014.Relationship between dispositional mindfulness and substance use. Addictive behaviors. Pages 532-537. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com.southuniversity.libproxy.edmc.edu/science/article/pii/S0306460313003286
The research paper I read was called Relationship between dispositional mindfulness and substance use. The purpose of this paper is if you increase the hours of mindfulness or meditation then that will decrease the number of cravings for the substance in question. The methods used in this lab were they used an outpatient substance abuse program where each subject had to complete an inpatient program, there were 281 participants. They then separated them in to groups by race, sex, age, and substance of chose. They then use a questionnaire called the Likert scale Five Factor Mindfulness questionnaire to measure the state of mindfulness of each subject. The questionnaire included sections on awareness, observing, describing, nonjudgment, and nonreactivity. They also measured the amount of substance use by using the severity of dependence scale. So over a period of time the subjects were to meditate on a daily bases and then they were to take to the questionnaire and a drug test and the test results were gathered. The results or the outcome of the research showed that there is no connection between mindfulness and substance use. In the results even the subjects that could cope well still showed no connection between mindfulness and substance use. So in conclusion the hypothesis was incorrect that there is no connection between mindfulness and substance use. Also, the determining factor is how well the subject can cope without the substance.
References
Sarah Bowen. Matthew C Enkema. March 2014.Relationship between dispositional mindfulness and substance use. Addictive behaviors. Pages 532-537. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com.southuniversity.libproxy.edmc.edu/science/article/pii/S0306460313003286
References: Sarah Bowen. Matthew C Enkema. March 2014.Relationship between dispositional mindfulness and substance use. Addictive behaviors. Pages 532-537. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com.southuniversity.libproxy.edmc.edu/science/article/pii/S0306460313003286