Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal
February 4, 2025
Elizabeth R. Click, Marjorie Nigar Edguer, Jesse Honsky et al.
Background: Faculty and students have experienced increased stress and challenges over the past years. Mindfulness is a strategy that has been used in classrooms to help manage those challenges; however, there is limited research on the faculty experience of leading mindfulness activities in the classroom. Aim: This research aimed to explore how university faculty perceive the experience of...
Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal
August 24, 2022
II John E. Lothes, Sara Matney, Zayne Naseer
Background: Research shows that mindfulness interventions for test anxiety in a college student population are beneficial (Lothes, Mochrie, Wilson, & Hakan, 2021). This study expands on the existing literature by examining how distance learning mindfulness practices may affect anxiety in college students. Aim: This study assessed the effects of online mindfulness practices over a five-week...
Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal
June 10, 2021
Tiara A. Cash, Nika Gueci, Teri Britt Pipe
7 citations
Background: Mindfulness, the practice of present moment experience, can be employed as a tool for grounding in difficult conversations and creating pathways for transformative change in communities.Aim: As educators continue to teach the practices of mindfulness in primary, secondary, and post-secondary institutions to promote personal and academic wellbeing, it is important to recognize the...
Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal
June 7, 2019
Samantha Whitford, Keith Warren
Background: Meditation is likely to be a useful intervention for anxiety and depression, and is increasingly common as a clinical intervention and informal practice among university students. However, meditation dropout rates are high, and it is likely that perceived barriers to meditation play a role. While neuroticism is known to predict dropout, there has been no study relating personality...
Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal
November 27, 2017
John E. Lothes II, Kirk Mochrie
Background: Many studies have shown the positive effects of extended mindfulness interventions on anxiety reduction in several different populations; however, few have yet to examine the effects of mindfulness interventions on test anxiety in a college student population.Aim: This study assesses the effects of overall test anxiety reduction through the use of Dialectical Behavior Therapy's...