Mindfulness, Coping, and the Regulation of Stress Under Anxiety: A Scoping Review of Mechanisms and Boundary Conditions
Nidhi Parihar, Manish Kumar Verma preprint
Mindfulness-based programs are implemented at scale in schools, workplaces, and clinics on the assertion that they help people handle stress and function under pressure, yet how mindfulness functions in the stress process remains challenged. This scoping review (Arksey & O’Malley framework; PRISMA-ScR reporting) maps a decade of evidence (2016–2026) on how mindfulness functions as a handling...