Abstract: The benefits of walking and mindfulness on well-being have already been demonstrated in previous research. So, our research objective was to check whether walking in full consciousness also had a positive effect on the feeling of well-being. At methodological level, we compared a sample of 63 healthy participants divided in two groups: a mindfulness walk/experimental group (n = 34) and a classic walk/control group (n = 29). Both groups had to walk daily for at least 20 min during two weeks; and the mindfulness walk group was listening a pre-recorded mindfulness instruction set thorough their daily walks, whilst the control group walked “normally”, without mindfulness instruction. Well-being considered, corresponding to subjective well-being according to Diener (1984), was assessed through the Satisfaction with Life Scale - SWL and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule–PANAS before and after the two-weeks session. All participants also underwent the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire -FFMQ twice. Our results show no significant differences between the two groups regarding well-being for the PANAS and SWL. However, linear regression highlighted that mindfulness, assessed with the FFMQ, was a significant predictor for wellbeing across our whole sample. To conclude, it seems that walking in full consciousness does not improve well-being any more than classical walking, without specific instructions. ; SCOPUS: ar.j ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published
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