Mindfulness: A Long-Term Solution for Mindless Eating by College Students
研究从心理学、神经科学和消费者行为角度，探讨正念特质与实践如何影响认知加工和行为，发现正念与暴饮暴食和跳餐负相关，练习正念的学生不良饮食习惯发生率更低，为营销和公共政策提供方向。
The authors draw from psychology, neuroscience, and consumer behavior to explain how mindfulness as a trait and practice affects people's cognitive processing and behavior. An exploratory study examines how mindfulness practices could be applied to the marketing and public policy issue of mindless eating habits of college students. The authors present a mindfulness scale adapted from clinical psychology and use it to measure levels of students' mindfulness traits and their relationship both to mindless eating habits and to self-reported levels of stress. They repeat the same study with a group of students who had been practicing mindfulness. The findings show that mindfulness is negatively related to overeating and skipping meals. Furthermore, incidence of engaging in poor eating habits is lower for students who practice mindfulness. The authors outline a direction for future scholarship that incorporates mindfulness to address marketing and public policy issues in the domain of eating behaviors.