Psychosomatic Medicine
November 1, 2011
R. Gina Silverstein, Anne-Catharine H. Brown, Harold D. Roth et al.
165 citations
OBJECTIVES: Treatments of female sexual dysfunction have been largely unsuccessful because they do not address the psychological factors that underlie female sexuality. Negative self-evaluative processes interfere with the ability to attend and register physiological changes (interoceptive awareness). This study explores the effect of mindfulness meditation training on interoceptive awareness...
Perspectives on Psychological Science
October 14, 2011
Britta K. Hölzel, Sara W. Lazar, Tim Gard et al.
2,997 citations
Cultivation of mindfulness, the nonjudgmental awareness of experiences in the present moment, produces beneficial effects on well-being and ameliorates psychiatric and stress-related symptoms. Mindfulness meditation has therefore increasingly been incorporated into psychotherapeutic interventions. Although the number of publications in the field has sharply increased over the last two decades,...
Journal of Substance Use
October 3, 2011
David Scott Black, Steve Y Sussman, C. Anderson Johnson et al.
57 citations
Mindfulness refers to an enhanced attention to and awareness of present moment experience. This study examined how trait mindfulness, as measured with six items from Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale, might influence adolescent cigarette smoking frequency through its impact on depressive affect, anger affect and perceived stress mediators. Self-reported data from Chinese adolescents (N =...
Trauma, violence & abuse
October 1, 2011
Rachel W Thompson, Diane B Arnkoff, Carol R Glass
Mindfulness- and acceptance-based conceptualizations of PTSD implicate experiential avoidance and non-mindful behavior in the etiology and maintenance of the disorder. If experiential avoidance is associated with vulnerability to PTSD, then a mindful and accepting orientation toward experience may confer psychological resilience following exposure to trauma. This article examines how...
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
October 1, 2011
Bruce W Smith, J Alexis Ortiz, Laurie E Steffen et al.
Objective: This study investigated the association between mindfulness, other resilience resources, and several measures of health in 124 urban firefighters. Method: Participants completed health measures of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, depressive symptoms, physical symptoms, and alcohol problems and measures of resilience resources including mindfulness, optimism, personal...
Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine
October 1, 2011
Elena Salmoirago-Blotcher, Sybil L. Crawford, James Carmody et al.
The characteristics of dispositional mindfulness have rarely been explored in unhealthy populations. We sought to evaluate its association(s) with psychological morbidity and disease severity in 30 outpatients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators naïve to mindfulness training. We used the Five Facets of Mindfulness and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale to measure dispositional...
INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH
October 1, 2011
Urvashi Anand, Mahendra P. Sharma
1 citation
IJAR - Indian Journal of Applied Research (IJAR) IJAR is a double reviewed monthly print journal that accepts research works from scholars, academicians, professors, doctorates, lecturers, and corporate in their respective expertise of studies.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
October 1, 2011
Karen Caldwell, Lisa Emery, Mandy Harrison et al.
95 citations
OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether participants in taijiquan classes would report increases in mindfulness greater than that of a comparison group, and whether changes in mindfulness were associated with improvements in mood, perceived stress, self-regulatory self-efficacy, and sleep quality. DESIGN: The study design was quasi-experimental with repeated measures....
Behavior Therapy
October 1, 2011
Willoughby B. Britton, Ben Shahar, Ohad Szepsenwol et al.
The high likelihood of recurrence in depression is linked to a progressive increase in emotional reactivity to stress (stress sensitization). Mindfulness-based therapies teach mindfulness skills designed to decrease emotional reactivity in the face of negative affect-producing stressors. The primary aim of the current study was to assess whether Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is...
Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling
October 1, 2011
Mark E. Young, Leigh DeLorenzi, Laura Cunningham
16 citations
Meditation has been studied as a way of reducing stress in counseling clients since the 1960s. Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and new wave behavior therapies incorporate meditation techniques in their programs. This article identifies meditation's curative factors and limitations when using meditation in addiction settings.
INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH
October 1, 2011
A. K. S. Kushwaha
IJAR - Indian Journal of Applied Research (IJAR) IJAR is a double reviewed monthly print journal that accepts research works from scholars, academicians, professors, doctorates, lecturers, and corporate in their respective expertise of studies.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
October 1, 2011
Cara Geary, Susan L. Rosenthal
96 citations
OBJECTIVES: The objectives of the study were (1) to evaluate self-reported stress levels and daily spiritual experiences in academic health care employees before, immediately after, and 1 year after enrolling in a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) course; and (2) to evaluate the correlation between a potential measure of pulse rate variability and self-reported stress levels. SUBJECTS:...
The Journal of Urology
October 1, 2011
Richard E. Berger
No AccessJournal of UrologyAdult Urology1 Oct 2011Re: Effect of Compassion Meditation on Neuroendocrine, Innate Immune and Behavioral Responses to Psychosocial Stress Richard E. BergerM.D. Richard E. BergerRichard E. Berger More articles by this author View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5347(11)60439-4AboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack...
Clinical Journal of Pain
October 2011
Samuel Yeung Shan Wong, Frank Wan-Kin Chan, Rebecca Lai-Ping Wong et al.
Research suggests that an 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program (a structured form of meditation) might be effective in the treatment of various health problems including chronic pain. Our objective was to compare the clinical effectiveness of the MBSR program with a multidisciplinary pain intervention (MPI) program in terms of pain intensity, pain-related distress, quality...
Science China Life Sciences
October 1, 2011
Jun Ren, ZhiHui Huang, Jing Luo et al.
83 citations
Although previous studies have shown that sleep can inspire insight, it is still unclear whether meditation can promote insight. Meditation differs from other types of passive rest such as relaxation and sleep because it requires full consciousness and mindfulness of targets such as one's breathing. Forty-eight university students without meditation experience were recruited to learn a simple...
L'Encephale
October 2011
S Skanavi, X Laqueille, H-J Aubin
In substance use disorders, the lack of empirically supported treatments and the minimal utilization of available programs indicate that innovative approaches are needed. Mindfulness based therapies have been used in addictive disorders for the last 10years. Mindfulness can be defined as the ability to focus open, non-judgmental attention to the full experience of internal and external...
International Journal of Nursing Studies
September 29, 2011
Piyanee Klainin‐Yobas, Ma Aye Aye Cho, Debra Creedy
Objectives: Depression, a common mental health problem, is projected to be the second leading cause of disability for adults by year 2020. Mindfulness-based interventions (MFIs) have been integrated into therapeutic work on depression, but limited systematic reviews reported their efficacy on heterogeneous groups of mental disorders. This meta-analysis aimed to examine the efficacy of the MFIs...
September 29, 2011
B. S. Raghavendra, D. Narayana Dutt
16 citations
preprint
Many recent electrophysiological studies have revealed the importance of investigating meditation state in order to achieve an increased understanding of autonomous control of cardiovascular functions. In this paper, we characterize heart rate variability (HRV) time series acquired during meditation using nonlinear dynamical parameters. We have computed minimum embedding dimension (MED),...
Journal of Occupational Science
September 28, 2011
Michelle L. Elliot
38 citations
This paper provides a rationale for the recognition of mindfulness in the occupational science discourse. There is a plethora of diverse scholastic interest in mindfulness, however not within the occupational science discipline. Mindfulness has a natural fit with occupation; its informal practice of awareness cultivation facilitates heightened engagement in and attunement to activity and the...
Psychology of Music
September 27, 2011
Frank M. Diaz
133 citations
This study investigated the effects of a brief mindfulness meditation induction technique on perceived attention, aesthetic response, and flow during music listening as measured by Continuous Response Digital Interface (CRDI) and questionnaire. Participants were students enrolled in music classes or ensembles at a comprehensive university in the southeastern United States ( N = 132), and were...