Abstract

Mindfulness is paying attention to the present moment nonjudgmentally, so one who is mindful can aware entirely without feeling overwhelmed. If so, we can hypothesize a person with higher mindfulness responds to emotional stimuli differently. This study aims to investigate the effect of various facets of self-reported dispositional mindfulness on emotional response to emotional pictures. A total of 101 participants completed self-reported measurements of mindfulness and viewed positive, negative and neutral pictures from International Affective Picture System(IAPS), rating affective valence and arousal for each picture. Next, we examined whether emotional response is affected by dispositional mindfulness facets. The results show the following; a main effect for arousal and valence, no main effect for groups(mindfulness facets), interactions between valence and nonjudgmental facet, arousal and acting with awareness, describing. Participants with a higher nonjudgmental level view negative stimuli less negatively and positive stimuli less positively. Groups with higher acting with awareness and describe facets level experience lower arousal for positive stimuli. Negative affect increased and positive affect decreased after IAPS task; however, mindfulness facets did not moderate these effect. The finding suggest that emotional response is affected by dispositional mindfulness differently by each facet.