European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education
November 3, 2020
Gabriel Marais, Sophie Lantheaume, Robin Fiault et al.
51 citations
A mindfulness-based program improved psychological flexibility, mental health, well-being, and efficient time use among academics. The eight-week program was offered to 21 participants, while 22 others served as a wait-list control. Self-reported measures showed significant increases in the intervention group compared to controls across all outcomes, including reduced stress, anxiety, and depression symptoms. The results suggest that such programs can help academics manage time better and enhance adaptive functioning and well-being.
June 10, 2020
Gabriel Marais, Sophie Lantheaume, Robin Fiault et al.
16 citations
preprint
Occupational stress is high in academia, partly due to time pressure. A mindfulness-based program offered to academics in a French research department improved psychological flexibility, mental health (stress, anxiety, depression symptoms), well-being, and effective time use compared to a wait-list control group. The intervention group (n = 21) showed significant increases in these self-reported measures after the 8-week program relative to the control group (n = 22). The results suggest that mindfulness-based programs can improve adaptive functioning, well-being, and optimal time use in academia, offering a useful perspective for helping academics improve mental health and time management.
Psychological Reports
April 26, 2024
Pierre De Oliveira, Catherine Juneau, Céline Stinus et al.
11 citations
A two-stage study examined how metacognitive processes of decentering—meta-awareness, (dis)identification with internal experiences, and (non)reactivity to thought content—relate to self-transcendence experiences in daily life, including self-transcendent emotions, flow proneness, and an interconnected identity. The first stage validated the French version of the Metacognitive Processes of Decentering Scale (MPoD-t) with 374 participants. The second stage, with 294 participants, found that meta-awareness mediated the link between meditative practice and self-transcendent emotions or flow, while (dis)identification with internal experiences mediated the link between practice and an interconnected identity.
Cognition & Emotion
September 1, 2021
Catherine Juneau, Rebecca Shankland, Bärbel Knäuper et al.
People tend to automatically approach pleasant things and avoid unpleasant ones. Two experiments tested whether mindfulness practices and the personality trait of equanimity can reduce this tendency. In the first experiment, 84 participants were randomly assigned to a breathing meditation, a body-scan meditation, or an active control condition before completing an Approach/Avoidance Task. In the second experiment, 71 participants were grouped by high or low trait equanimity. Breathing meditation and higher equanimity each reduced automatic approach and avoidance biases, while body-scan meditation did not. The findings suggest that both brief mindfulness practice and stable equanimity can weaken automatic motivational responses to positive and negative stimuli.