This exploratory study examined the impact of the newly developed Mindful Breathing Program (MBP), a grassroots mindfulness-based intervention, on the social-emotional well-being of students and teachers in a K–12 public school district in the United States. Pre- and post-intervention measures assessed students’ levels of mindfulness, affect, social-emotional functioning, and prosocial...
Abstract School-based mindfulness programs help students manage stress and promote well-being. These programs largely reflect a developmental psychological mindfulness framework that posits that intrinsic states of mindfulness and basic compassion can be cultivated into traits through socialization and training. Yet less is known about how program effects vary depending on individual and...