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Carnegie Mellon University Research Showcase @ CMU Dietrich Co lege Honors Theses Dietrich Co lege of Humanities and Social Sciences 5-1-2014 Mindfulness Meditation Training and Stress Reactivity: Behavioral Emotion Regulation Mechanisms J ae-Won Kim Carneg ie Mellon University Fo low this and additional works at : /hsshonors This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Dietrich Co lege of Humanities and Social Sciences at Research Showcase @ CMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dietrich Co lege Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of Research Showcase @ CMU. For more information, please contact research-showcase@. Running head: Mindfulness Training and Stress Reactivity Mindfulness Meditation Training and Stress Reactivity: Behavioral Emotion Regulation Mechanisms Jae Won Kim Carnegie Mellon University Mindfulness Training and Stress Reactivity 2 Abstract It has been proposed that dispositional mindfulness and mindfulness meditation training helps individuals become more attentive and aware of their inner processes and behavior. Yet we know very little about how mindfulness training reduces stress and the underlying mechanisms for these effects. The present study investigated several mechanisms of mindfulness and stress reduction by conducting secondary data analyses on 3-day mindfulness training study that included a Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) stress reactivity session after the 3-day training. This previous study showed that brief mindfulness meditation training reduced psychological stress reactivity while increasing salivary cortisol to the TSST. In the present study, we coded behavioral emotion regulation responses (via recorded videos) to the TSST.