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Brief Articles

Mindfulness mechanisms in everyday life: examining variance in acceptance, attention monitoring, decentering, self-compassion, and nonreactivity and their links to negative emotions among a workplace sample

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Pages 1261-1271 | Received 20 Jan 2023, Accepted 07 Aug 2023, Published online: 07 Sep 2023

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