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Study Overview
PURPOSE & OUTCOME
The purpose of the study is to understand how mindfulness - whether naturally occurring or
deliberately cultivated - may help leaders be more effective in developing the social
and emotional skills critical to effective leadership. The main outcome is to
articulate the educational implications for leadership development training that incorporates
mindfulness.
RESEARCH GOALS
This study has two primary research goals. First, to describe potential associations
between degree of mindfulness (in leaders with and without a regular mindfulness practice)
and characteristics of normal personality and social/emotional traits and skills. Second, to
describe how leaders self-assess and work with their inner and outer stresses, and their
relationship-building strategies in light of that self-knowledge.
The study also includes some technical research goals related to designing future
cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of
mindfulness and leadership. If you are interested in these kinds of details, please
contact me.
STEPS & TIME REQUIRED OF PARTICIPANTS
This study has four steps estimated to take 2 hours total to complete. For more
detailed information than is presented below, please see the
Participation Information
page.
Step 1: Participation Questionnaire - 10 minutes
Step 2: Agreement to Participate, Confidentiality, and Withdrawal from the Study -
10 minutes
Step 3: Completion of 3 Assessment Instruments - 35 minutes, 15 minutes, and 10 minutes
respectively
Step 4: Informational Questionnaire - 40 minutes
Optional Follow-up Interviews
Up to 12 study participants who express interest in further participation will have the option
of participating in a follow-up interview of 1-1.5 hours in March or April 2008.
POTENTIAL BENEFITS
1. Study Participants will have a unique learning opportunity to gain self-knowledge about
their personality and social/emotional traits and skills, their current degree of mindfulness,
and the potential effects of mindfulness for enhancing specific emotion-related leadership
abilities. Enrolled participants will receive information about a variety of reports of their
individual results that will be available to them.
General information about these reports is included on the
Frequently Asked Questions
page. Detailed information about these reports will be available when participants complete
the three assessments described on the
Participation Information
page.
2. Leadership Research: This study will be the first to describe the potential effects of
mindfulness on the development of social and emotional skills in the context of adult
development theory. It will also
provide variability data for designing future studies of mindfulness,
leadership, and social/emotional development in adult life.
3. Educational Implications: Documenting how leaders understand and cope with the stresses of
leading and how they build effective relationships will be important
for designing leadership development training programs focused on social and
emotional skills, and for leadership coaches seeking effective self-management techniques and
relationship building strategies to offer to their clients.
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