Healthy Italian adolescents who completed eight weeks of either mindfulness-oriented meditation or autogenic training showed increased cooperativeness and reduced emotional symptoms. The more participants' cooperativeness rose, the more their emotional symptoms fell. Both mind-body interventions fostered a cooperative attitude and helped regulate emotions, suggesting they may protect youth well-being and psychosocial adjustment in school settings.
An 8-week Mindfulness-Oriented Meditation (MOM) course improved anxiety, depression, emotional exhaustion, psychological well-being, interoceptive awareness, and mindfulness in Italian female teachers during the Covid-19 lockdown. Teachers with low baseline resilience showed greater improvements in depression and psychological well-being than those with high resilience. The findings suggest mindfulness training can help mitigate pandemic-related psychological distress, especially for more vulnerable individuals.