The Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on Academic Performance of Students
Yang Liu, Yuqing Liu, Chaoyu Wang
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research 2022 DOI: 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.012 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Intervention | Mindfulness meditation |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Keywords | Education |
| Key points | Argues that mindfulness meditation improves academic performance through three information-processing pathways: improved attention on learning (cognitive process), enhanced working memory (information storage), and better overall executive function (executive cognition). Proposes that this mechanistic summary can support the development of meditation activities and applications and increase student participation in mindfulness interventions. |
Abstract
School settings had been full of stressors that negatively influence students' mental health and academic performance. For solving students' academic performance issues, mindfulness mediation had been used to improve their academic outcomes. This study had applied the information process theory to demonstrate the internal mechanism between mindfulness mediation and academic performance in three pathways with three major sections: cognitive process (students' academic performance could be enhanced by improving attention on learning), information storage (by improving their working memory through mindfulness meditation), and executive cognition (by improving students' overall executive function). This study had benefited from the summary of the mechanism of mindfulness meditation and academic performance, promoting the development of mindfulness meditation-related activities and applications, and improving students' participation in mindfulness meditation interventions, thereby improving their academic
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|---|---|---|---|
| Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition. | 2004 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mechanisms of mindfulness | 2005 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective | 2011 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression | 2006 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness | 2012 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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