Publications by authors named "Fiona G Sleight"
Introduction: Ego dissolution, variously called Ego-Loss, self-loss, and ego disintegration, is a hallmark of psychedelic drug use. We cross-validated the 10-item Ego Dissolution Scale, which we developed to assess ego dissolution in everyday life, and we included comparator variables that expanded our original assessment of construct validity.
Methods: Undergraduate college student volunteers ( = 527) completed the measures online.
The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic is a mass traumatic event that has universally and indiscriminately negatively affected the world. The adverse consequences of the pandemic have globally impacted psychological health and well-being via increased stressors, such as uncertainty, health anxieties, and financial instability. During the initial months of the pandemic, we (Polizzi et al.
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- The COVID-19 pandemic has been recognized as a traumatic event, prompting researchers to explore how mindfulness can help manage COVID-19-related stress (CS).
- Findings from a study of 495 undergraduate students showed that specific mindfulness skills, particularly nonjudging and observing, were linked to lower levels of CS.
- The results suggest that enhancing certain mindfulness practices could serve as protective factors against significant stressors like those experienced during the pandemic.
Ego dissolution (i.e., ego loss, ego disintegration, ego death, or self-loss) is a conscious state marked by a loss or diminution of one's sense of self and a lack of first-person experience.
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