The effect of loving kindness meditation and student teachers stress and empathy
Imre Csaszar
June 12, 2012 DOI: 10.31390/gradschool_dissertations.288 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Clinical protocol |
|---|---|
| Population | Student teachers |
| Intervention | Loving kindness meditation |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Citations | 3 |
| Key points | Proposes that a structured, guided loving kindness meditation practice may serve as a preventative option to mitigate stress and emotional exhaustion in student teachers, which if left unaddressed may lead to burnout and impairment. |
Abstract
Teachers face increasing demands in the twenty-first century as they engage with students, administrators, coworkers, staff, and parents. High demands and stressors may generate feelings of emotional exhaustion in educators. If left ignored or untreated the emotional exhaustion may eventually lead to burnout and impairment. This prospectus highlights a study designed to explore a preventative option to mitigate the experience of stress felt by student teachers through a structured, guided mindfulness training practice: loving kindness meditation.
Citations in the library
Cites 21
- Mindfulness training as a clinical intervention: A conceptual and empirical review. Clinical Psychology Science and Practice 2003
- Mechanisms of mindfulness Journal of Clinical Psychology December 29, 2005
- Open hearts build lives: Positive emotions, induced through loving-kindness meditation, build consequential personal resources. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology October 27, 2008
- Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences November 8, 2004
- Regulation of the Neural Circuitry of Emotion by Compassion Meditation: Effects of Meditative Expertise PLoS One March 25, 2008
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