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Shunta Maeda

2 papers in the library · publishing 2026

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Effects of audio guided loving kindness meditation on psychological well being and laboratory stress responsiveness in healthy university students

Scientific Reports July 15, 2026 Shunta Maeda, Ren Fujisawa, Takumi Uchiyama et al.

This study investigated the efficacy of a two-week online audio-guided loving-kindness meditation (LKM) program compared with mindfulness meditation (MF) and an active control (AC) group in a healthy university population. The study consisted of an overarching trial (N = 130), with a nested laboratory stress testing (N = 50). The full-sample subjective outcomes involved psychological distress,...

Effectiveness of a 2-week online program on self-help loving-kindness meditation in a non-clinical population: An active control randomized trial

Shunta Maeda, Ren Fujisawa, Takumi Uchiyama et al. preprint

Objective: Loving-kindness meditation has been shown to improve positive and negative mental health outcomes; however, its effectiveness, when provided in a self-help format, has not been thoroughly investigated. Therefore, this study examined the effectiveness of a 2-week online program on self-help loving-kindness meditation by comparing it with mindfulness meditation and active control...