Meditation Effective in Reducing Teacher Burnout and Improving Resilience: A Randomized Controlled Study
Frontiers in Education March 4, 2021 Laurent Valosek, Staci Wendt, Jan Link et al.
A meditation-based wellness program reduced emotional exhaustion, the core component of burnout, and improved resilience, perceived stress, fatigue, and depression in teachers. Seventy-eight participants were randomly assigned to the Transcendental Meditation program or a wait-list control group. At a four-month follow-up, the meditation group showed significant reductions in emotional exhaustion, perceived stress, and fatigue, and significant increases in resilience. Depression also improved but with less certainty. Eighty-seven percent of participants complied with daily home meditation practice. The findings suggest that meditation can help alleviate teacher burnout and related psychological distress.