Abstract
ABSTRACTBoth mindfulness and authenticity have been found to positively affect psychological well-being. The current study investigated the relationships between an interesting mix of eastern and western phenomena including mindfulness, authenticity and psychological well-being and considered the cultural diversities in measures of these variables. Participants (N = 165) completed the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale, Authenticity Scale, and the Psychological Well-Being Scale. Findings demonstrated that authenticity acts as a partial mediator for the relationship between mindfulness and psychological well-being. Authenticity remained a partial mediator in the White British sample but acted as a complete mediator of the relationship between mindfulness and well-being in the Chinese sample. We make several suggestions for therapeutic approaches that focus on authenticity and support a previous claim that person-centred psychotherapy can be considered a form of mindful therapy.
Highlights
Research in the field of Humanistic and Positive Psychology aims mainly to explore factors that build strength and facilitate wellness (Linley, Joseph, Harrington & Wood, 2006)
The results suggest that participants from the United States of America (USA) are the least interdependent and the most analytical in cognition style, characteristics associated with higher authenticity
Person-centred therapy was developed as a form of psychotherapy by Carl Rogers in the 1940s, a generally agreed upon definition has formed in the late 1950s and early 1960s
Summary
Research in the field of Humanistic and Positive Psychology aims mainly to explore factors that build strength and facilitate wellness (Linley, Joseph, Harrington & Wood, 2006). Correlational studies have revealed that both mindfulness and authenticity are strongly related to well-being (Baer, Smith, & Allen, 2004; Brown & Ryan, 2003; Goldman & Kernis, 2002; Wood, Linley, Maltby, Baliousis & Joseph, 2008). Despite these studies of well-being focusing on mindfulness and authenticity, little is known about how these two well-being traits relate to each other. The present study aims to advance understanding of the relationships between mindfulness, authenticity and psychological well-being, and tentatively proposes a mediation model and analyses these data through a cross-cultural lens. The secular mindfulness practices developed unadulterated by exposure to Buddhist philosophy or teaching method, some researchers suggest that it’s unnecessary to understand Buddhist philosophy to practice mindfulness. Turnbull and Dawson (2006) argue that the way Western researchers define ‘Mindfulness’ oversimplified its original meaning, meaning that Western style meditation mindfulness may lead to a mere superficial calmness
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