Emotion Self-Regulation in Neurotic Students: A Pilot Mindfulness-Based Intervention to Assess Its Effectiveness through Brain Signals and Behavioral Data
Sensors March 31, 2022 Lila Iznita Izhar, Areej Babiker, Rizki Edmi Edison et al. 21 citations
A brief 6-week breathing-based mindfulness intervention reduced anxiety and stress levels in undergraduate students with high neuroticism, with p-values of 0.013 and 0.027, respectively. Emotion regulation strategy use, specifically suppression, also changed significantly. Electroencephalogram (EEG) analysis revealed differences before and after the intervention in resting states and tasks, with Fp1 and O2 channels being most significant. Machine learning algorithms classified before and after conditions with accuracy around 77%, sensitivity 76–80%, specificity 73–77%, and AUC 0.66–0.8. Mindfulness can thus improve self-regulation of emotional state in neurotic students based on psychometric and electrophysiological analyses.