Changes in mindfulness during the first lockdown from COVID-­19

The Lockdown due to the pandemic from COVID-19 has been a cause of psychological and cognitive distress, generating insecurity, confusion and emotional isolation. Emerging adults were the most vulnerable to the psychosocial effects of the pandemic, also experiencing increased levels of rumination, intrusive thoughts, and cognitive failures. The awareness that emerges from paying attention to the present moment experience can prevent anxiety and fear associated with the lockdown, and decrease negative, ruminative, and automatic thoughts. The aims of the present longitudinal study were (a) to establish pre- and during-COVID-19 mindfulness profiles in emerging adults; (b) to investigate how COVID-related emotions, socio-economic status and housing conditions influenced profile membership; and (c) to investigate whether there were differences across mindfulness profiles with respect to cognitive failures, intrusive thoughts and rumination.