ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 29 November 2018 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02359 Edited by: Anna Schubö, University of Marburg, Germany Reviewed by: Fei Luo, Institute of Psychology (CAS), China Miriam Gade, Medical School Berlin, Germany *Correspondence: Lin Sørensen lin.sorensen@uib.no Specialty section: This article was submitted to Cognition, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology Received: 25 July 2018 Accepted: 10 November 2018 Published: 29 November 2018 Citation: Sørensen L, Osnes B, Visted E, Svendsen JL, Adolfsdottir S, Binder P-E and Schanche E (2018) Dispositional Mindfulness and Attentional Control: The Specific Association Between the Mindfulness Facets of Non-judgment and Describing With Flexibility of Early Operating Orienting in Conflict Detection. Front. Psychol. 9:2359. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02359 Dispositional Mindfulness and Attentional Control: The Specific Association Between the Mindfulness Facets of Non-judgment and Describing With Flexibility of Early Operating Orienting in Conflict Detection Lin Sørensen 1,2 * , Berge Osnes 1,3 , Endre Visted 4,5 , Julie Lillebostad Svendsen 1,5 , Steinunn Adolfsdottir 6 , Per-Einar Binder 4 and Elisabeth Schanche 4 1 Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 2 KGJebsen Center for Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Bergen, Norway, 3 Bjørgvin District Psychiatric Centre, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, 4 Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 5 Division of Psychiatry, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, 6 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway Background: A state of mindfulness refers to a present-centered attentional awareness without judging. Being mindful seems to increase the ability to be flexible and adaptive in attention focus according to situational contingencies. The way mindfulness affects such attentional control is often measured with three different but interacting attentional networks of alerting (preparedness), orienting (selection of stimulus), and conflict detection (suppression of irrelevant stimuli). In the current study, the aim was to study the effects of dispositional mindfulness on these attention networks, and specifically the effects on the interactions between these attention networks. Methods: Fifty participants between 19 and 29 years old filled out the questionnaire Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) and performed the revised version of the Attention Network Test (ANT-R). The five FFMQ facets of Describing, Non-Judgment, Orienting, Non-Reactivity, and Acting with Awareness were included as predictors in multiple linear regression analyses with the ANT-R scores of alerting, orienting, conflict detection, and the interaction scores of alerting by conflict detection and orienting by conflict detection as outcome variables, respectively. Results: Higher dispositional mindfulness as measured with the five FFMQ facets predicted interaction scores (faster reaction times) of orienting by conflict detection, but none of the other ANT-R scores. It was specifically the FFMQ facets of Describing Frontiers in Psychology | www.frontiersin.org 1 November 2018 | Volume 9 | Article 2359