Objectives

According to the influential Monitor and Acceptance Theory (MAT), mindfulness includes the two components of attention monitoring and acceptance, which, in conjunction, can explain its benefits on psychological well-being: monitoring alone would increase affective reactivity (MAT tenet 1b), but when combined with acceptance, it would lead to increased psycho-physical well-being (MAT tenet 2b). However, the studies cited in support to MAT are not completely consistent with the theory, Thus, we conducted a cross-sectional study to further test it.

Methods

In a pool of 154 participants, we measured the two mindfulness components with the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire, while also assessing ill-being or psychological distress in terms of depression, anxiety, stress, and sleep disturbances, and psychological well-being in terms of life satisfaction and happiness. We then conducted hierarchical regression analysis on these data for assessing the role of monitoring, acceptance, and their interaction on the other psychological variables.

Results

Our results show that monitoring alone marginally predicted few ill-being variables, whereas acceptance strongly predicted both reductions in psychological symptoms and increases in well-being. Moreover, no significant interaction between monitoring and acceptance was found for any of the tested variables.

Conclusions

The present study provides very little support for the two tested MAT tenets. On the contrary, in line with most of the available literature, our results strongly support the alternative view according to which the beneficial effects of mindfulness on psychological outcomes depend mostly on acceptance.

中文翻译：

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接受而不是与注意力监控的相互作用会增加心理健康：测试正念的监控和接受理论

目标

根据具有影响力的“监控与接受理论”（MAT），正念包括注意力监控和接受的两个组成部分，它们可以共同解释其对心理健康的好处：单独监控可以提高情感反应性（MAT原则1b），但是，如果与接受相结合，就会带来更多的身心健康（MAT原则2b）。但是，为支持MAT而引用的研究与该理论并不完全一致，因此，我们进行了横断面研究以进一步对其进行测试。

方法

在154名参与者中，我们用“五方面正念问卷”测量了两个正念成分，同时还评估了抑郁，焦虑，压力和睡眠障碍方面的疾病或心理困扰，以及以下方面的心理健康状况：生活的满意度和幸福。然后，我们对这些数据进行了层次回归分析，以评估监测，接受程度及其在其他心理变量上的相互作用。

结果

我们的结果表明，仅靠监测就可以预测很少的疾病变量，而接受则可以强烈预测心理症状的减轻和幸福感的增加。此外，对于任何测试变量，在监控和验收之间均未发现明显的相互作用。

结论

本研究对这两个经过测试的MAT原则几乎没有提供支持。相反，根据大多数现有文献，我们的结果强烈支持另一种观点，根据这种观点，正念对心理结果的有益影响主要取决于接受程度。