Stress-Reducing Effects of Group-Based Mindfulness Meditation Training
Hirokazu Taniguchi
The Japanese Journal of Personality July 12, 2018 DOI: 10.2132/personality.27.2.5 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Controlled trial Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 30 |
| Population | College students |
| Intervention | Group-based mindfulness meditation training |
| Duration | 2-week training; assessments before training, 1 week after training began, just after training ended, and 2 weeks after training ended |
| Measures | stress response questionnaire, decentering measure, mood state evaluation |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Citations | 1 |
| Key findings | Both mindfulness-trained students and controls reported lower depression two weeks after training ended, indicating the reduction was not specific to meditation. Trained students' mood states became pleasant after daily meditation, but the abstract reports no between-group advantage for the training on depression. |
Abstract
College students practiced group-based mindfulness meditation training every day for two weeks. Fifteen students each in the training and control groups completed a questionnaire on stress responses four times (before training, one week after training began, and just after and two weeks after training ended). The trained students also answered a decentering measure at the same four times and evaluated their mood states before and after everyday meditation. Both the trained students and the controls reported lower depression two weeks after the training ended. The trained students’ mood states also changed to being pleasant after the daily meditation.
Comparable studies
Other non-randomized and open-label trials on meditation, most cited first.
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|---|---|---|---|
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| Exploring self‐compassion and empathy in the context of mindfulness‐based stress reduction (MBSR) Community sample | 2010 | Pre-post intervention study | |
| Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Lowers Psychological Distress In Medical Students Second-year medical students | 2003 | Prospective nonrandomized cohort-controlled study | n = 302 |
| Intensive meditation training, immune cell telomerase activity, and psychological mediators. Retreat participants and matched controls | 2011 | Controlled trial with wait-list control group | n = 60 |
| The Effectiveness of Mindfulness Training for Children with ADHD and Mindful Parenting for their Parents Children aged 8-12 with ADHD and their parents | 2011 | Within-group waitlist controlled trial | n = 22 |