Recent research suggests that mindfulness may foster sustainable consumption behavior through the reduction of the so-called attitude–behavior gap, or by weakening material values while increasing subjective well-being. The current controlled longitudinal study tested these propositions by employing a sustainability-adapted mindfulness-based intervention (sMBI) to two different samples (n = 60 university students; n = 71 employees). Although the intervention successfully enhanced mindful experiences in both samples, we found no evidence for neither direct effects on sustainable consumption behavior or related attitudes, nor for the reduction of the attitude–behavior gap. However, the intervention led to greater well-being in the student sample and suggested a decline of materialistic value orientations in both samples. The results blunt previous claims about potential causal effects of mindfulness practice on sustainable consumption behavior. Nevertheless, they indicate that the sMBI affects behavior-distal variables, such as material values and well-being, which in turn could influence consumption behavior in the long run.

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为地球冥想：基于正念的干预对可持续消费行为的影响

最近的研究表明，正念可以通过减少所谓的态度-行为差距，或通过在增加主观幸福感的同时削弱物质价值来促进可持续的消费行为。目前的受控纵向研究通过对两个不同的样本（n = 60 名大学生；n = 71 名员工）采用适应可持续性的正念干预 (sMBI) 来测试这些命题。尽管干预成功地增强了两个样本的正念体验，但我们没有发现任何证据表明对可持续消费行为或相关态度的直接影响，也没有发现态度-行为差距的减少。然而，干预导致学生样本的幸福感更高，并表明两个样本的物质价值取向都下降了。结果使先前关于正念练习对可持续消费行为的潜在因果影响的说法变得模糊。尽管如此，他们表明 sMBI 会影响行为远端变量，例如物质价值和幸福感，从长远来看，这反过来又会影响消费行为。