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. 2017 Feb 21;7:2060. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02060

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.