Chronic depression associated with early trauma remains one of the most treatment-resistant conditions in mental healthcare. Clinical and empirical findings have increasingly suggested that patients with histories of early trauma may benefit differentially from intensive psychoanalytic treatments compared to symptom-focused or short-term psychotherapies. Our conceptual article aims to elucidate...
Purpose: This study proposes a process-based, closed-loop model of mindfulness-based psychological regulation to address the lack of real-time mechanism accounts in competitive sport. The model aims to explain how athletes maintain functional operation and attentional stability under continuous performance pressure. Methods: Drawing on converging evidence from sport psychology, cognitive...
Background: This study examined the association between mindfulness and social anxiety among university students and tested the chain mediating roles of self-compassion and rumination. Methods: Using random sampling and online surveys, 860 university students (465 males and 395 females) completed self-report measures of mindfulness, social anxiety, rumination, and self-compassion. Structural...
Background: In high-intensity sports such as basketball, psychological factors significantly influence performance. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) show potential for reducing anxiety, depression, and mental fatigue while enhancing attention, resilience, and basketball technical skills. However, few studies have compared the effects of MBI between elite athletes and recreational players....
Introduction: Employee traits play an important role in influencing creativity; however, it remains unclear whether mindfulness- a dynamic and adaptive personal quality- facilitates creativity. Drawing on causal orientation theory and control theory, this study aims to develop a moderated mediation model that explains how and when employee mindfulness enhances creativity. Methods: We conducted...
Frontiers in PsychologyApril 17, 2026Jacob Barnum, Maddie Blackham, Maya Hollingshead et al.
Self-compassion-based mindfulness training has been associated with improved psychological well-being. This study examined whether an established online self-compassion course was associated with changes in self-compassion, flourishing, parenting stress, parenting daily hassles, and family quality of life among mothers of infants, including mothers of autistic children. Mothers were grouped...
Frontiers in PsychologyApril 16, 2026Monica V Weedman, Kutter Callaway, Daniel M Shafer et al.
Introduction: Art has been shown to evoke a range of emotions, yet the mechanisms underlying these responses remain underexplored. Across three studies using between- and within-subjects designs, we examined how viewing original photographic art in virtual reality (VR) influences self-transcendent emotions and related affective states. Method: In Study 1, participants viewed photographs in one...
Introduction Music performance anxiety is prevalent among professional musicians and can undermine both wellbeing and performance. Musicians navigating the transition from advanced training to professional careers may be particularly vulnerable due to sustained evaluative exposure and career uncertainty. This study examines whether dispositional mindfulness is associated with music performance...
Historically, before the origination of modern psychotherapy, those in distress turn to temples and Daoist sanctuaries to seek relief from their worries and perplexities. Monks and priests, through their teachings and guidance, often fulfilled the role that today we would recognize as akin to a counselor or psychotherapist. As one of the world's four ancient civilizations, China has cultivated...
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are widely used to promote psychological and physical health, yet their efficacy among individuals with histories of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has been mixed. While most conceptualizations attribute the cultivation of nonjudgmental awareness as a primary mechanism of MBI-related benefits, individuals with stress-regulatory systems that were...
Introduction: Academic alienation has become an increasingly salient issue among university students, as it is closely related to students' engagement with learning and their psychological adjustment in academic contexts. Mindfulness has been widely discussed as a psychological characteristic associated with individuals' awareness and regulation of internal experiences, yet the processes...
Consciousness in Zen meditation has garnered considerable interest in psychology and neuroscience, particularly in relation to its association with enhanced self-awareness. Zen meditation fosters social harmony by addressing mental and social conflicts, linking individuals to various societal aspects through the practice. This meditation, rooted in Buddhism, aims to perceive thoughts without...
Test anxiety is a prevalent problem among adolescents and is closely associated with cognitive and emotional responses to uncertainty. Although intolerance of uncertainty and mindfulness have each been linked to anxiety, their joint role within a unified explanatory model remains insufficiently explored. The present study examined whether mindfulness mediates the relationship between...
Introduction: Psychological wellbeing among young adults has declined globally, along with rising levels of depression, creating an educational and societal crisis and highlighting the urgent need for school-based mental health interventions. In response, the Body-Mind Axial Awareness (BMAA) method-an embodied body-mind enhancement program rooted in East Asian self-cultivation traditions-was...
Background: Emerging evidence suggests that the ability to sense internal bodily signals, interoceptive awareness, is central to embodied consciousness and adaptive self-regulation. Yet, the cognitive mechanisms by which interoceptive processes shape the continuity of conscious experience remain insufficiently understood. One such mechanism may be time perspective, a framework reflecting...
Perception has traditionally been conceptualized as the internal reconstruction of external stimuli, both in cognitive science and in artificial intelligence (AI). In this representational view, sensory systems transform input into internal models that guide cognition and action. However, converging evidence from neuroscience, perceptual science, developmental psychology, autism research,...
Background The mental health problem of college students has become an increasingly prominent public health problem. Mindfulness exercise (ME) is considered to be a promising way to improve psychological well-being. However, the underlying mechanisms by which mindfulness exercise affects mental health (MH) remain poorly understood. Based on the theory of self-regulation, this research explores...
Objective: Empirical evidence verifies the efficacy of mindfulness interventions in addressing heterogeneous stress forms across clinical and non-clinical populations. However, online mindfulness is increasingly emerging in diverse modalities across online platforms, propelled by ongoing technological advancements. This study aims to conduct a systematic analysis of the intervention effects of...
The so-called "hard problem of consciousness," famously articulated by philosopher David Chalmers (1995), asks why and how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience. Why does neural activity in the visual cortex generate the qualia of red, or neurochemical shifts involving oxytocin result in the felt sense of love? Despite significant advances in cognitive neuroscience,...
Scientific studies of consciousness derive their legitimacy from individuals’ intuitions about the degree to which measured functions can be associated with consciousness. However, intuitions about consciousness are often regarded as inherently inaccurate and unreliable, as evidenced by cases that appear to reveal counterintuitive dissociations between consciousness and functions. Recent...
Meditation research has focused primarily on secular forms of mindfulness meditation rather than spiritual forms of meditation, and rarely on devotion in meditation. This study sought to gain broader understanding of the psychological characteristics (mindfulness, mysticism, self-actualization, positive affect and negative affect) and practice characteristics (minutes per day and years of...
If meditative practice can durably transform experience, and if phenomenology can refine how conscious experience becomes describable, then the interface between transformation and description becomes a shared research problem-philosophical, psychological, and methodological. Addressing it requires the traditions to move beyond conventional self-descriptions. Phenomenology is challenged to ask...
Frontiers in PsychologyMarch 17, 2026Mehmet Bilgin Karademir, Melih Çalışır, Aydıner Birsin Yildiz et al.2 citations
Introduction: The aim of this study was to examine the associations between athletes' challenge and threat perceptions and sport anxiety, and to evaluate the role of mindfulness in these relationships in terms of moderation and indirect effects (mediation). Methods: A total of 291 athletes from different sport branches participated in the study. Data were collected using the Challenge and...
Introduction: It is important to explore how words are given to body awareness in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), as this impacts health and illness, while the literature on this topic is scarce. This study is the first to explore the learning process of enhancing one's body awareness live in MBSR sessions through a philosophy of language lens. It is the first known application of...
Background Although studies have been conducted on psychological flexibility, self-compassion and mindfulness, the effects of these factors on the mental health of university students have not yet been sufficiently researched. Objective This study seeks to investigate the effects of psychological flexibility, self-compassion, and mindfulness on mental health among university students in...