106. Emotional management in school physical education courses: taking the integration of mindfulness yoga into mental health education for middle school students as an example
Schizophrenia Bulletin February 1, 2026 Huiying Nie, Liwei Zheng
Integrating mindfulness yoga into middle school physical education courses significantly improves students' emotional regulation and reduces anxiety and depression. In a quasi-experiment with 162 eighth graders, the group receiving a 12-week mindfulness yoga program (two class hours per week covering asana, breathing meditation, and mindfulness awareness) scored higher on the Emotion Regulation Scale (M = 82.63) than the control group (M = 69.35). Classroom observations showed positive emotion expression increased from 2.3 to 5.7 times per class hour, while emotional outbursts dropped from 1.8 to 0.3 times. Practice duration correlated positively with emotional regulation ability.