Objectives: Mindfulness has been studied under cultivated or dispositional divisions where the latter has strong implications for psychological well-being in meditators and non-meditators alike. In addition, future expectations, or prospections, regarding the occurrence of important events in a person’s future have recently been hypothesized to be the main cause behind symptoms of major depression. There is, however, a lack of empirical research looking at possible links between dispositional mindfulness, as understood in its facet structure, and future expectations as understood via perceived risk of occurrence and vividness of mental imagery when prompted to imagine a given list of positive and negative prospective event item lists. Therefore, this research aimed at examining how dispositional mindfulness may be related to probabilistic risk assessments of positive and negative future events (Stage I); and how mental imagery vividness may be moderated by mindfulness facets (Stage II). Methods: Both stages included healthy participants and incorporated the PROCESS macro for moderated regression analysis done with the SPSS software. Stage I included 204 voluntary college students, and Stage II was conducted online with a public sample of 110 adults. Results: Although no interaction effect was found in Stage I, nonreactivity to inner experience facet of dispositional mindfulness moderated the relationship between negative imagery vividness and psychological distress in Stage II (F _(1,103) = 4.00, R ² change=.018, p <.05). Conclusions: This is a novel finding that could inform a future line of research looking into the relationship between prospection and mindfulness, holding a potential for informing research on mindfulness-based interventions.

Nature connectedness, a sense of identification with the natural world, has been identified as an important psychological antecedent of pro-environmental attitudes and behaviour. Understanding its psychological correlates therefore carries both theoretical and practical relevance. Mindfulness and nonattachment, two dispositional qualities rooted in contemplative traditions, have each been associated with enhanced well-being and a greater appreciation of one’s interconnectedness with the environment, yet their specific interrelationships with nature connectedness remain poorly understood. The present cross-sectional study therefore examined conditional indirect associations between trait nonattachment, dispositional mindfulness, and nature connectedness in a sample of 152 university students completing validated self-report measures. Two alternative models including conditional indirect effects were tested via structural equation modelling with bootstrapped confidence intervals. Correlational analyses revealed positive associations between study variables, with mindful awareness, but not acceptance, significantly correlated with nature connectedness. Structural equation modelling revealed a significant indirect effect of nonattachment on nature connectedness through mindful awareness. These findings contribute to the growing literature on psychological antecedents of nature connectedness and carry theoretical implications for mindfulness-based approaches to pro-environmental attitudes. Future longitudinal and intervention studies are needed to establish the directionality and practical relevance of the observed associations.