表題番号：2023C-034
日付：2024/04/05
研究課題伝統的実践による身体感覚への気づきとマインドフルネス
| 研究者所属（当時） | 資格 | 氏名 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| （代表者） | 文学学術院 文化構想学部 | 教授 | 宮田 裕光 |
| （連携研究者） | 大学院文学研究科心理学コース | 修士課程2年生 | 陳 潔寅 |
| （連携研究者） | 文化構想学部現代人間論系 | 学部4年生 | 山崎 果歩 |
- 研究成果概要
- Mind-body practices based on Eastern traditions such as regimen, martial arts, qigong, and mindfulness include various training to enhance both interoceptive awareness and observation of the external world. By acquiring higher stages of these practices through extensive training, it is believed that the boundary between self and others are dissolved, leading to a state of integrative awareness where distinctions between self and others have ceased to exist. Such higher integrative and harmonious mind-body states are deemed to result in psychologically desirable status including lower perceived stress, anxiety, and depression and higher psychological well-being. However, there is to date limited empirical evidence regarding these mind-body transformation processes. The present study aimed at elucidating such mind-body transformation induced by practices based on Eastern traditions including footbath as regimen and mindfulness-based practices, by using multiple psychological and physiological methods. First, we investigated changes in dispositional mindfulness and psychophysiological status associated with a two-week intervention by footbath, by collecting further data including additional participants continuing from the previous academic year. Results showed that mindfulness and interoceptive awareness significantly increased, and trait anxiety significantly decreased, after the intervention for both the intervention and control groups. Autonomic nervous system and endocrine measures did not reveal apparent changes associated with the intervention. Free descriptions by the participants during the intervention period suggested warming effects and awareness of bodily sensations in the intervention group. Second, we examined changes in dispositional mindfulness, body boundary perception, body dysmorphic concern, and psychological health associated with a two-week mindfulness-based practices. Participants in the intervention groups either engaged in daily practice of body scan or sitting meditation. Following the intervention periods, participants from both bodyscan and sitting meditation groups showed increase in components of dispositional mindfulness, decrease in perceived stress, and decrease in body dysmorphic concern. Analyses of the participants’ daily reports also suggested that participants in the bodyscan group showed a clearer body boundary, whereas those in the sitting meditation group exhibited a thinning of body boundary perception, associated with the practice. Together with these research progress, we also proceeded with publishing multiple research articles including that on the psychological impacts of laughter yoga exercise.