Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
July 18, 2018
Carina Remmers, Johannes Zimmermann, Alice E. Buxton et al.
10 citations
BACKGROUND: Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are effective in treating major depression. Because mindfulness involves monitoring and accepting current experiences, it may lead people resolve incongruencies between emotional responses that would otherwise remain unnoticed. Mindfulness may thus foster congruence between implicit and explicit emotions. The current randomized controlled trial...
Mindfulness
July 18, 2018
Phillipa McKeering, Yoon-Suk Hwang
172 citations
Recent research on mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) in schools have reported effect differences across age groups of students, with early adolescent students reporting the least effect. Existing reviews, however, include students across all age ranges and largely concern intervention effects and their contributors. The exclusion of qualitative data exploring students’ experiences of...
Journal of Yoga and Physiotherapy
July 17, 2018
June Kume
Meditation and mindfulness are practices that have become readily accepted within the mainstream Westernized culture, as evidenced by the plethora of widely available ways to implement them via online, written, and in-person resources. Expanding evidence demonstrating the beneficial physical and psychological consequences of adhering to these approaches are becoming better understood. As a...
Communication Disorders Quarterly
July 16, 2018
Greta Emge, M. Pellowski
A mindfulness meditation exercise was incorporated into a stuttering treatment program for an adult male who stutters. Speech disfluencies were analyzed before and after mindfulness meditation and implementation of fluency shaping techniques. Findings suggested that including a mindfulness meditation exercise into a treatment program may be helpful for people who stutter.
Peshawar Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
July 15, 2018
Wajeeha Sibghat-ullah, Iram Batool
The Study has been conducted to explore the relationship between mindfulness and depressive symptoms with mediating variable of Self-Compassion. The Objective of this study determines how mindfulness predicts depressive symptoms by taking account of self-compassion. The sample of three hundred and fifty 350 students was taken from Bahudin Zakriya university, Multan (Punjab, Pakistan). The...
Electronic Journal of General Medicine
July 15, 2018
Morteza Akhlaghifard, Fatemeh Fathi
This study is conducted with the aim of the relationship between mindfulness and positive psychological skills on the response rate to pain in cancer patients in Alborz province by descriptive-correlational method. The population of the study consisted of 150 cancer patients (and a sample of 116 patients) who referred to Sarhad Abad Fardis Hospital in 2016-2017. They were selected using Morgan...
Journal des adolescens
July 13, 2018
Helena Moreira, Maria C Canavarro
The current study aims to investigate whether mindful parenting and adolescents' dispositional mindfulness differ as a function of maternal anxiety and depressive symptoms and to explore the moderating role of these symptoms on the relationship between mindful parenting and adolescents' dispositional mindfulness. A sample of 685 mother-adolescent dyads was collected in Portuguese public...
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques
July 12, 2018
Ola Mioduszewski, Heather J. MacLean, Patricia A Poulin et al.
13 citations
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, progressive, autoimmune, neurodegenerative disorder that can interfere with physical and psychological functioning, negatively affecting health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Fostering mindfulness may mitigate the negative consequences of MS on HRQoL. The relationship between mindfulness, mood and MS-related quality of life was investigated. In total, 52...
The Japanese Journal of Personality
July 12, 2018
Hirokazu Taniguchi
1 citation
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...
Current Psychology
July 10, 2018
Marco Schlosser, Rebecca L. Jones, Harriet Demnitz-King et al.
The primary aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between meditation experience and repetitive negative thinking (RNT) in regular meditators with a wide range of experience, and to examine the extent to which self-compassion and mindfulness mediate this relationship. RNT is a transdiagnostic process that is implicated in the development and maintenance of several mental health...
Holistic Nursing and Health Science
July 10, 2018
Sang Ayu Ketut Candrawati, Meidiana Dwidiyanti, Rita Hadi Widyastuti
33 citations
Background: Anxiety is one of the psychological problems which can develop in the elderly. If left untreated, it can decrease the productivity and quality of life. Mindfulness with Gayatri mantra is such a complementary therapy which is effective to reduce anxiety in the elderly. Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of mindfulness with Gayatri mantra on decreasing...
Holistic Nursing and Health Science
July 10, 2018
Akhmad Yanuar Fahmi, Meidiana Dwidiyanti, Diyan Yuli Wijayanti
5 citations
Background: Stress in health professional students is increasing every year. Therefore it is necessary to implement stress management for the students. Mindfulness is an alternative which can be used to deal with stress. Purpose: The purpose of this systematic review is to describe the effectiveness of mindfulness on decreasing stress in health professional students. Methods: This systematic...
Holistic Nursing and Health Science
July 10, 2018
Reza Indra Wiguna, Meidiana Dwidiyanti, Sri Padma Sari
9 citations
Background: Anxiety and stress in nursing students has been shown to result in a lack of concentration, reduced learning productivity, and unfavorable physiological effects. This can cause a bad risk to the academic process of nursing students. A positive coping mechanism to reduce anxiety can be performed through various mindfulness training to support the academic success of nursing...
Academy of Management Proceedings
July 9, 2018
Yuval Engel, Stephany Noordlijk, Afra Spoelder
Fear of failure is a negative emotion that often inhibits entrepreneurial action. We hypothesize and test the extent to which self-compassion – an emotionally positive self-attitude cultivated thro...
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
July 9, 2018
A. Hafenbrack, Lindsey D. Cameron, Gretchen M. Spreitzer et al.
While mindfulness originated in Buddhist teachings, the variant studied by Western psychologists and taught in corporations has been secularized. One might suspect that secularized mindfulness - a ...
Multiple Sclerosis Journal
July 9, 2018
Angela Senders, Douglas Allen Hanes, Dennis N. Bourdette et al.
42 citations
Background: Mindfulness training is often used as a therapeutic intervention to manage stress and enhance emotional well-being, yet trials for multiple sclerosis (MS) are limited and few have used an active control. Objective: Assess the feasibility of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) for people with MS and evaluate the efficacy of MBSR compared to an education control. Methods: We...
Health Promotion Perspectives
July 7, 2018
Meghan K. Edwards, Paul D Loprinzi
Background: To examine the effects of an acute bout of aerobic exercise and meditation on mood state among young adults. Methods: Participants (N= 66, mean age = 21.3 years) were randomly assigned to walk,meditate, or sit (control) for 10 minutes. Participants’ mood state was monitored before and after the intervention using the Profile of Mood States (POMS) questionnaire. Results: Significant...
Neuroimage
July 7, 2018
Tammi R. A. Kral, Brianna S. Schuyler, Jeanette A. Mumford et al.
ABSTRACT Meditation training can improve mood and emotion regulation, yet the neural mechanisms of these affective changes have yet to be fully elucidated. We evaluated the impact of long‐ and short‐term mindfulness meditation training on the amygdala response to emotional pictures in a healthy, non‐clinical population of adults using blood‐oxygen level dependent functional magnetic resonance...
Zhonghua xiandai huli zazhi
July 6, 2018
Hongxia Zhao, Yuan Yuan, Changying Chen
6 citations
Objective To study the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) training on the negative emotions in elderly patients with chronic heart failure. Methods A total of 148 cases of elderly patients with chronic heart failure undergoing standard medication therapy for heart failure from February 2015 to February 2016 in the Internal Medicine-Cardiovascular Department of the First...
Journal of Affective Disorders
July 6, 2018
David Lovas, Zev Schuman-Olivier
Background: Persisting high levels of relapse, morbidity and mortality in bipolar disorder (BD) in spite of first-line, evidence-based psychopharmacology has spurred development and research on adjunctive psychotherapies. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is an emerging psychotherapy that has shown benefit in related and comorbid conditions such as major depressive, anxiety, and...