ABSTRACT

Objective: Explore how personnel in a military aviation unit experienced personal as well as interpersonal aspects concerning their participation in a group-based four-month MBT programme.

Background: mindfulness-based training (MBT) have been used as a personal stress management tool in stressful working environments, including military aviation. There is little knowledge about the interpersonal mechanisms involved when engaging in MBT.

Method: Adhering to Grounded Theory (GT), we conducted post-intervention interviews with 42 programme participants. We selected 30 interviews with evidence of interpersonal effects for in-depth analyses to build a theoretical model of the pathways through which interpersonal effects might develop.

Results: The majority of the interviewees (30/42 = 71%) experienced significant interpersonal effects from MBT. The in-depth analyses revealed an increase in the common theme “Sense of Fellowship” (SOF). SOF comprised three primary change processes: “Attention to others,” “Self-observation” and “Reflection.” In addition, five behavioral changes emerged: “Direct communication,” “Increased patience,” “Decreased anger expression,” “Calmness,” and “Acceptance.” Finally, four contextual factors appeared to have particular importance for the development of SOF: “Plenary sessions,” “Sharing experiences,” “Doing something new together,” and “Sitting in silence.”

Conclusion: These findings indicate that MBT has prosocial effects in a military aviation setting, and the constructed model contributes theoretically by suggesting how these psychosocial effects may arise and develop.

摘要

目的：探讨军用航空部门的人员如何参与基于团体的为期四个月的MBT计划，以及他们在个人和人际关系方面的经历。

背景：基于正念的培训（MBT）已被用作包括军事航空在内的紧张工作环境中的个人压力管理工具。参与MBT时所涉及的人际关系机制知之甚少。

方法：坚持扎根理论（GT），我们对42位计划参与者进行了干预后访谈​​。我们选择了30项具有人际关系证据的访谈，以进行深入分析，以建立人际关系可能通过其发展的途径的理论模型。

结果：大多数受访者（30/42 = 71％）经历了MBT的重大人际关系。深入分析显示，共同主题“团契感”（SOF）有所增加。SOF包含三个主要的变更过程：“关注他人”，“自我观察”和“反思”。此外，出现了五种行为变化：“直接沟通”，“耐心增强”，“愤怒表达减少”，“镇静”和“接受”。最后，四个语境因素对于SOF的发展似乎尤为重要：“全体会议”，“共享经验”，“一起做新的事情”和“保持沉默”。

结论：这些发现表明MBT在军事航空环境中具有亲社会作用，并且所构建的模型通过暗示这些心理社会作用如何产生和发展而在理论上做出了贡献。