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,...
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...