与迷幻相关的变量和与冥想相关的变量之间的关联:一项纵向研究
Otto Simonsson1, Sankalp Chaturvedi2, Peter S Hendricks3
1Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Journal of psychiatric research
|March 25, 2025
概括
迷幻药的使用可能会增加冥想练习,特别是对于新手来说. 然而,它也可以使现有练习者更糟糕的冥想困难,突出心理体验和正念之间的复杂相互作用.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 心灵与身体的医学
背景情况:
- 现有的研究表明,迷幻体验和冥想之间存在联系.
- 然而,关于它们的相互作用的详细纵向数据,特别是关于练习频率和挑战的详细纵向数据仍然有限.
- 了解这些关联对于心理健康和健康研究至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究迷幻药的使用与冥想实践之间的纵向关联.
- 检查特征正念和自我同情如何影响具有挑战性的迷幻体验.
- 探索迷幻药的使用对冥想练习困难的潜在影响.
主要方法:
- 长度研究,采用18-50岁美国居民的大样本 (N=13,012) 进行研究.
- 随访调查数据从7484名受访者收集,其中336人报告使用迷幻药.
- 用于分析迷幻和冥想变量之间的关联的调整后回归模型.
主要成果:
- 迷幻药的使用与增加的正念和慈爱/慈悲冥想练习频率相关,特别是在新手中.
- 基线正念和自我同情与更少具有挑战性的迷幻体验和减少伤害思想有关.
- 在基线冥想者中,迷幻药的使用与慈爱/慈悲冥想的困难增加有关.
结论:
- 迷幻药的使用显示出与冥想有着复杂的关系,对一些人来说可能会增强练习,而对其他人来说则会产生挑战.
- 特质正念和自我同情似乎可以保护我们免受不良的迷幻体验.
- 需要进一步的研究来充分阐明这些细微的相互作用及其影响.
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