Table 3.
Categories, Themes, and Codes.
Categories | Analytical themes | Content codes | |
---|---|---|---|
Experiences of mindfulness at work | Entanglement: Doing mode prevents Being mode | Doing mode | |
Automatic and persistent thinking | |||
Temporal focus: Past or future | |||
Belief in thoughts | |||
Self-centered | |||
Judgmental evaluation | |||
Disentanglement: Distinct Being and Doing modes co-exist | Doing mode | Being mode | |
Automatic and persistent thinking | Mental quiet | ||
Temporal focus: Past or future | Temporal focus: Present | ||
Belief in thoughts | Disbelief in thoughts | ||
Self-centered | Not self-centered | ||
Judgmental evaluation | Acceptance | ||
Transitions: Between Entanglement and Disentanglement | Disentanglement to Entanglement: Became unmindful | ||
Entanglement to Disentanglement: Became mindful | |||
Continuity of Mindfulness: Remained mindful | |||
Outcomes of mindfulness at work | Feeling poorly | Stressed, negative emotion, physical maladies* | |
Functioning poorly | Ineffective task performance, decision making, and social interaction* | ||
Feeling well | Calm, clear, spacious, interpersonal connection* | ||
Functioning well | Effective task performance, decision making, and social interaction* | ||
Antecedents of mindfulness at work | Situational | Attentional, emotional, and task demands | |
Behavioral | Recency of meditation, cumulative meditation practice | ||
Individual | Practical mindfulness self-efficacy |
While we present content codes here for outcomes, we do not describe these codes in the manuscript for two reasons. First, specific outcomes reported closely reflected previously published research. Second, we chose to collapse rich description of the outcomes from mindfulness into analytical themes to facilitate general theorizing of the experience of mindfulness at work and related outcomes.