Dispositional Mindfulness and Interoceptive Awareness in a Continuous Practitioner of Martial Arts

Miyata Hiromitsu, Tano Manaka, Kim Beopryong, Dong Ziyu, Roah Mari

doi:10.51061/jjm.61_3

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剣術実践者におけるマインドフルネス特性と内受容感覚への気づき
A Preliminary Study
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Martial arts refer to physical and mental practices based on historical combat techniques, and have been suggested to involve components parallel to those of mindfulness. However, empirical studies involving Japanese practitioners of martial arts remain scarce. The present study aimed to examine dispositional mindfulness, interoceptive awareness, and psychological health outcomes in a continuous practitioner of martial arts and three non-practitioners. A heartbeat detection task, an original task to estimate the respiration rate, and a psychological scale were used to examine interoceptive accuracy. The results showed that the martial arts practitioner performed better than the non-practitioners in the heartbeat detection task. In addition, regarding the psychological scales, the practitioner obtained higher total and multiple subscale scores on mindfulness, higher multiple subscale scores on interoceptive awareness, and higher total and multiple subscale scores on subjective well-being compared with the non-practitioners. These preliminarily data support the idea that the continued practice of marital arts can increase multiple dimensions of mindfulness tendencies, interoceptive awareness, and psychological health.

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Japanese Journal of Mindfulness

Japanese Journal of Mindfulness 6 (1), 23-32, 2021

Japanese Association of Mindfulness

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CRID: 1390291158024956672

NII Article ID: 130008162825

DOI: 10.51061/jjm.61_3

ISSN: 24360651

Text Lang: ja

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