Trait Mindfulness and its Role with Psychological Inflexibility and Subjective Well-being among Adults: A Correlational Study

Pages: 143-148
Santosh and Suresh K. Darolia (Department of Psychology, Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra, Haryana)

Mindfulness as psychological construct has been studied since long in relation to different variables with different dimensions. Present study investigates the relationship of trait mindfulness with subjective well-being and psychological flexibility. A sample of 200 normal adults drawn from Karnal district were tests on Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) (Baer, Smith, & Hopkins, 2006) has been used to assess domains of trait mindfulness, Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II by Bond, Hayes, Baer, Carpenter, Guenole, Orcutt, and Zettle (2011) has been used to measure psychological inflexibility and Subjective Well-being Inventory (SWB) was used to assess well-being by Nagpal and Sell (1992). The correlation analysis result revealed significant positive relationship between global mindfulness score and subjective well-being (r = .256, p< 0.01). There are negative correlation of mindfulness and psychological Inflexibility (r = -.136) as well as subjective well-being is negative correlation with psychological Inflexibility (r = -.156, p< 0.05). Hence, it is concluded that mindfulness and psychological inflexibility negatively correlated with each other as well as mindfulness play a positive role for maintaining person's well-being.