The mindful emotion management framework: How mindfulness helps employees manage emotions through reactivity, regulation, and reappraisal
Publication Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
6-2020
Abstract
Mindfulness has been shown to help employees manage emotions at work across a number of workplace domains, including emotional labor, burnout, and team conflict. However, along with understanding that mindfulness helps employees manage emotions, it is equally important we understand how mindfulness does so. We address this question by synthesizing a rich, but fractured literature spanning neuroscience, cognitive, and clinical psychology into a single coherent framework. The result is the Mindful Emotion Management Framework (MEMF). The MEMF proposes three distinct, and to some extent sequential, mechanisms by which mindfulness helps manage emotions in the workplace. These are: 1) reducing emotional reactivity, 2) improving emotion regulation, and 3) enabling adaptive reappraisal. We use the framework to explain past findings and to identify avenues for future research. By providing an interdisciplinary framework of how mindfulness moderates the link between experiences, emotions, and behaviors, this chapter hopes to provide a firm theoretical grounding from which future scholars can explore the role of mindfulness in emotions at work.
Keywords
Mindfulness, emotions at work, Mindful Emotion Management Framework
Discipline
Human Resources Management | Organizational Behavior and Theory
Research Areas
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources
Publication
The Cambridge handbook of workplace affect
Editor
Liu-Qin Yang, R. Cropanzano, C. S. Daus, & V. Martínez-Tur
First Page
185
Last Page
199
ISBN
9781108463782
Identifier
10.1017/9781108573887.015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
City or Country
Cambridge
Citation
REB, Jochen and THEODORE CHARLES MASTERS-WAAGE.
The mindful emotion management framework: How mindfulness helps employees manage emotions through reactivity, regulation, and reappraisal. (2020). The Cambridge handbook of workplace affect. 185-199.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6925
External URL
https://search.library.smu.edu.sg/permalink/65SMU_INST/naremq/alma99379412302601
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108573887.015