Effects of a mindfulness-based intervention on students' academic engagement, frequency of disruptive behavior, and overall mood states.
Leah Riggs
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Single case experimental design |
|---|---|
| Population | General education students in two classroom groups |
| Interventions | MindUp Curriculum Core Practice |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Citations | 2 |
| Key findings | The authors report that implementing the MindUp Curriculum with more frequent prompting of the Core Practice increased students' academic engagement, and that MindUp alone also increased engagement and improved overall mood states. They found no effect on disruptive behavior. |
Abstract
Research into the prevalence of childhood trauma indicates that adverse experiences continue to negatively impact children and youth across the country. Current research is expanding the concept of trauma to include many children’s’ ongoing fear and worry surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and experiencing the death of grandparents or other family and community members due to the virus. Symptoms of trauma may manifest in the classroom as behaviors that are attention seeking, defiant, destructive, hyperactive, disruptive, or all of the above. One emerging practice for meeting the needs of children who have experienced trauma is blending classroom behavior management and academic instruction with skills that promote principles of mindfulness. The current study investigated the effects of a mindfulness-based intervention on general education students' self-reported mood states, frequency of disruptive behavior, and academic engagement. The current study utilized a single case experimental design. Two classroom groups differed in the frequency of prompting to engage in the Core Practice. Results of this study suggests that implementing the MindUp Curriculum with increased frequency of the Core Practice as a mindfulness-based intervention is effective in increasing students’ academic engagement. Results also suggest that implementing the MindUp Curriculum alone was effective in increasing students’ engagement and overall mood states. Results did not suggest an impact on disruptive behavior. Continued studies of this and similar interventions that target academic engagement and student mood states are critical to improving outcomes for students.
Comparable studies
Other experimental studies on meditation, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being. Cancer patients (clinical intervention study) | 2003 | Mixed methods: scale development, correlational, quasi-experimental, laboratory, experience-sampling, and clinical intervention study | |
| Loving-kindness meditation increases social connectedness. | 2008 | Controlled laboratory experiment | |
| Mindfulness and mind-wandering: Finding convergence through opposing constructs. | 2012 | Two studies: correlational study and experimental study | |
| Mental Training Enhances Attentional Stability: Neural and Behavioral Evidence | 2009 | Experimental study | |
| Mindfulness meditation and substance use in an incarcerated population. Incarcerated population | 2006 | Quasi-experimental with treatment-as-usual control condition |
Citations in the library
Cites 6
- Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition. Clinical Psychology Science and Practice 2004
- A Systematic Review of Mindfulness-Based School Interventions with Early Adolescents Mindfulness July 18, 2018
- Mindfulness‐based interventions for improving cognition, academic achievement, behavior, and socioemotional functioning of primary and secondary school students Campbell Systematic Reviews December 30, 2019
- Enhancing Cognitive and Social–Emotional Development Through a Simple-to-Administer Mindfulness-Based School Program for Elementary School Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial Developmental Psychology 2015
- Mindfulness-based interventions in schools—a systematic review and meta-analysis Frontiers in Psychology June 30, 2014
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