Study of mindfulness and cognitive failure among young adults

Pages: 415-419
Surjeet Singh and Nov Rattan Sharma (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana)

Mindfulness is a state of present- time awareness; which can be experienced and quite helpful to fabricate the sense of well-being and can decrease cognitive and behavioral error in our daily lives. Cognitive failures or errors are clearly a part of everyday life and can be observed in our behavior. These errors include distractions, blunders, memory lapses, and oversights, perceptual and attentional error. Hence it is expected that mindfulness would be negatively associate with cognitive failure and enhance our sense of health and well-being in a better way. The present study is planned to examine the nature of the relationship between Mindfulness and cognitive failure. Present study includes a sample of 80 young adults of both gender (Male=40; Female= 40). Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS; Brown & Ryan, 2003) and Cognitive Failure Questionnaire (CFQ; Broadbent, Cooper, FitzGerald, & Parkes, 1982) were administered to fulfillment the purpose of the present study. The results of the present study revealed that mindfulness is negatively associated with cognitive failures view aroused state of active cognitive processes. The current study found a significant negative correlation between mindfulness and cognitive failures. In other words, the person who is more mindful were made overall the fewer cognitive errors. The practice of mindfulness increased information processing speed, cognitive flexibility, attentional functioning.