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Mindfulness and Anxiety in Adolescents: Systematic Literature Review Based on Big Data

Dwi Susi Miftakhul Jannah, Ninik Setiyowati

Bulletin of Counseling and Psychotherapy June 1, 2024 DOI: 10.51214/00202406835000 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Systematic review Peer reviewed
Sample size 6,034
Population Adolescents (from included studies)
Intervention mindfulness
Topics Anxiety Meditation
Keywords Adolescents
Key findings Mindfulness is effective in overcoming adolescents' anxiety, with a negative relationship between mindfulness and anxiety.

Abstract

Adolescents are a group of individuals who are vulnerable to experiencing anxiety due to various factors that influence them. Anxiety that occurs in adolescents has several negative impacts on physique, psychology, and self-development of adolescents. If this anxiety is not overcome, it will evoke other symptoms and disorders that are more serious. Because of many negative impacts that arise when adolescents experience anxiety, an intervention is needed to overcome it, one of which can be done with mindfulness. This research uses a systematic literature review method using Publish or Perish software to collect articles from several sources such as Google Scholar, Research Gate, SINTA, DOAJ and Scopus. The keywords used are “mindfulness”, “anxiety”, “kecemasan”, “remaja”, “adolescents” and “teenage”. Based on these keywords, more than 500 articles published in 2019-2024 were found. Next, the researcher used 16 articles that were closely related to this research with a total of samples of 6.034. The research results show that mindfulness has proven effective in overcoming adolescents’ anxiety and there is a negative relationship between mindfulness and anxiety that adolescents who have high mindfulness will have low anxiety and vice versa. There are several programs of mindfulness intervention that can be carried out by adolescents, ranging from formal to informal practices that can be practiced when doing daily activities according to needs, situations and conditions.

Comparable studies

Other systematic reviews and meta-analyses on anxiety, most cited first.

Study Year Design Participants
Meditation Programs for Psychological Stress and Well-being Diverse adult clinical populations 2014 Meta-analysis n = 3,515
Research Review: The effects of mindfulness‐based interventions on cognition and mental health in children and adolescents – a meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials Children and adolescents 2018 Systematic review and meta-analysis n = 3,666
Therapeutic effects of classic serotonergic psychedelics: A systematic review of modern‐era clinical studies Patients with cancer- or illness-related anxiety and depression, major depressive... 2020 Systematic review n = 188
Does Mindfulness Meditation Improve Anxiety and Mood Symptoms? A Review of the Controlled Research Clinical populations with medical and emotional disorders 2007 Systematic review n = 15
Antidepressive, anxiolytic, and antiaddictive effects of ayahuasca, psilocybin and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD): a systematic review of clinical trials published in the last 25 years Patients from included clinical trials 2016 Systematic review

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