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Relationship of Mindfulness and Cognitive Defusion to Burnout, Openness to Change and Adaptive Performance with Mediating role of Psychological Flexibility: A Case Study of Iran South Railway Company
Seyed Esmaeil Hashemi, Mostafa Asheghi, Abdolzahra Naami
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to design and test a model of the relationship of mindfulness and cognitive defusion to
burnout, openness to change, and adaptive performance, considering the role of psychological flexibility. Participants
consisted of 220 employees (186 men and 34 women) from Iran South Railway Company who was selected by stratified
random sampling method. The instruments were acceptance and action questionnaire (Hayes et al., 2004), Mindful
attention and awareness scale (Brown and Ryan, 2003), Openness to change questionnaire (Metselaar, 1997; Rossel,
2010), Adaptive Performance Questionnaire (Charbonnier–Voirin et al., 2010), Burnout Questionnaire (Maslach,
1981), and Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (Gillanders et al., 2014). The proposed model was tested through structural
equation modeling. Findings showed that the proposed model was fitted to the data. Better fitness was found through
the removal of two non-significant paths and making correlation between two errors. The results indicated that
psychological flexibility had a meditating role between mindfulness and cognitive defusion with adaptive performance,
openness to change and burnout. Therefore, mindfulness training and acceptance and commitment training programs
can be a good way to increase adaptive adaptation and greater acceptance of employees against organizational changes
and, as well as reducing job burnout in the workplace. Finally, research findings were discussed based on acceptance
and commitment therapy.
Keywords
mindfulness, cognitive defusion, psychological flexibility, burnout, openness to change, adaptive performance
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