Mindfulness as practice: A network analysis of FMI data.
Mindfulness research implicitly conceives of mindfulness as an identifiable real 'thing' that exists beyond what is directly observed. Recently, a new methodology has been developed which allows mindfulness to be modelled as a complex system or network at the level of self‐report. In these models, i...
| Published in: | Counselling & Psychotherapy Research Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 899 - 910 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2021
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