Mindfulness and personality in the general population

INTERVENTION: This is a three‐arm randomised controlled trial of a single mindfulness practice versus control. Arm 1: 20 minute mindfulness practice and 5 minute audiobook excerpt Arm 2: 5 minute mindfulness practice and 20 minute audiobook excerpt Arm 3: active control: 25 minute audiobook excerpt The single mindfulness practices (in arms 1 and 2) are mindfulness of the breath meditation practices recorded by a qualified MCBT (Mindfulness‐Based Cognitive Therapy) teacher, Dr Fergal Jones, which have previously been proven feasible in published research (Strohmaier et al. (2021): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12671‐020‐01512‐5) Participants will start with the audiobook excerpt, immediately after which the mindfulness practice takes place (this has previously been tested and has proven successful in another study, see Strohmaier et al. (2021). The mode of delivery is individual and online, which has previously been tested and proven successful in another study, see Strohmaier et al. (2022): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12671‐021‐01780‐9 The intervention takes place fully online via the survey software Qualtrics, as has previouly proven feasible (see Strohmaier et al. (2022) above link). The Qualtrics survey will be built by the researcher who has previous experience in this. The location of the intervention is online, and participants are asked to make sure that they are not disturbed during the time of the intervention, which should take no longer than 40 minutes to complete (for the whole intervention in total). To monitor adherence, participants will be unable to click through to the next page on Qualtrics for 25 minutes during the duration of the study, since the "next" button will not appear until after 25 minutes have taken CONDITION: Mental Health ‐ Studies of normal psychology, cognitive function and behaviour Wellbeing; ; Wellbeing PRIMARY OUTCOME: negative affect[Positive and Negative Affect Scale; Watson, D., Clark, L. A., & Tellegen, A. (1988). Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54(6), 1063–1070.; https://doi.org/10.1037/0022‐3514.54.6.1063 pre (baseline) and post mindfulness practice/active control] positive affect[Positive and Negative Affect Scale; Watson, D., Clark, L. A., & Tellegen, A. (1988). Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54(6), 1063–1070.; https://doi.org/10.1037/0022‐3514.54.6.1063 pre (baseline) and post mindfulness practice/active control] SECONDARY OUTCOME: state mindfulness[Toronto Mindfulness Scale ; Lau, M.A., Bishop, S.R., Segal, Z.V., Buis, T., Anderson, N.D., Carlson, L., Shapiro, S., & Carmody, J. (2006). The Toronto Mindfulness Scale: development and validation. Journal of Clinical Psychology,62(12),1445‐1467. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.20326. pre (baseline) and post mindfulness practice/active control] INCLUSION CRITERIA: Adults aged at least 18 from the general population. Recruitment is online through Prolific online recruitment services, public social media platforms, word of mouth, known associates of researcher.