International Journal of Public Health
August 25, 2022
L. Hou, Lei Chang, Li-Rong Chen et al.
Objectives: Previous studies revealed a positive association between neuroticism and depression. This study further extended the previous findings by exploring the psychological processes underlying this association among Chinese postgraduates. Guided by theoretical models and empirical research, we proposed a multiple mediation and moderated mediation model to investigate the roles of...
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
August 25, 2022
Sha Xie, Chaohui Gong, Jiahao Lu et al.
Mindfulness training has been found to enable cognitive and emotional awareness and diminish emotional distraction and cognitive rigidity. However, the existing intervention studies have largely focused on school children, adolescents, and adults, leaving young children unexplored. This study examined the influence of mindfulness training on young children using the one-group pretest-posttest...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
August 25, 2022
Jiahe Zhang, Jovicarole Raya, Francesca Morfini et al.
4 citations
preprint
ABSTRACT Adolescents experience alarmingly high rates of major depressive disorder (MDD), however, gold-standard treatments are only effective for ~50% of youth. Accordingly, there is a critical need to develop novel interventions, particularly ones that target neural mechanisms believed to potentiate depressive symptoms. Directly addressing this gap, we developed a mindfulness-based fMRI...
Religions
August 25, 2022
Apiradee Wongkitrungrueng, Panitharn Juntongjin
Mindfulness practice and mindful consumption have increasingly attracted the interests of academics and the general public worldwide. Despite the fact that mindfulness meditation has its roots in Buddhism, little empirical research has studied mindfulness and mindful consumption from the Buddhist principles and from the perspective of active Buddhists who regularly dedicate themselves to...
BMJ Open
August 25, 2022
Peter J Bayley, R Jay Schulz-Heik, Julia S Tang et al.
Test whether Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) was non-inferior to cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for treating symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among veterans via a parallel randomised controlled non-inferiority trial. Outpatient Veterans Affairs healthcare centre. 85 veterans (75 men, 61% white, mean age 56.9) with symptoms of PTSD participated between October 2015 and March...
Religions
August 25, 2022
Renata Cueto de Souza, Charles Scott
5 citations
Our paper addresses the so-called college mental health crisis and the adoption of the strategy of mindfulness-based interventions. We offer a critique of their underlying medical–therapeutic paradigm by engaging the notion of self-transcendence in Viktor Frankl’s Existential Analysis and Buddhism in dialogue. We argue that the current mindfulness movement has decontextualized and appropriated...
Jurnal Agama Buddha dan Ilmu Pengetahuan
August 24, 2022
Agus Harianto, Poniman Poniman, Tejo Ismoyo
Penelitian ini berawal dari suatu masalah terutama dalam pengetahuan mengenai meditasi yang diangkat karena masih ada orang-orang yang belum memahami perihal meditasi dalam Agama Buddha terutama meditasi Vipassana. Hal ini juga dipengaruhi oleh banyak orang sehat secara jasmani namun rohani dan batin mereka sedang sakit. Kita saksikan saja dalam media massa sering kita mendengar kasus...
Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal
August 24, 2022
II John E. Lothes, Sara Matney, Zayne Naseer
Background: Research shows that mindfulness interventions for test anxiety in a college student population are beneficial (Lothes, Mochrie, Wilson, & Hakan, 2021). This study expands on the existing literature by examining how distance learning mindfulness practices may affect anxiety in college students. Aim: This study assessed the effects of online mindfulness practices over a five-week...
Religions
August 24, 2022
Masaki Nomura
4 citations
The purpose of this paper is to holistically comprehend the concept of nen 念in the Zen philosophy of Dōgen (道元 1200–1253), which is one of the origins of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, in relation to his principal concepts. This article specifically investigates its usages in his masterpiece, Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shōbōgenzō 正法眼蔵), according to each step of the threefold wisdom...
Behavioral Sciences
August 23, 2022
Jocelyn Grzybowski, Thomas M Brinthaupt
This research explores the relationships between trait mindfulness, self-compassion, self-talk frequency, and experience with mindful practice. We expected to find that positive self-talk would be positively related to mindfulness and self-compassion, and negative self-talk would be negatively related to these variables. Participants (N = 342) were recruited through a university research pool,...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
August 23, 2022
David Sars
Various well-controlled studies have suggested that practitioners in mindfulness can be prone to patient drop-out (e.g., due to chronic stress, pathology, cognitive reactivity), despite researchers having identified the underlying mechanisms that link mindfulness to mental health. In this article, a framework for physical exercise (PE) augmented mindfulness is proposed, which posits that...
Mindfulness
August 23, 2022
Natalia Van Doren, Zita Oravecz, José A Soto et al.
Objectives: Mindfulness programs are increasingly popular on college campuses in the US, yet little is known about college students' perceptions and beliefs about mindfulness: its origins, how it is learned, its functions, and practitioners. Using methods from Cultural Consensus Theory (CCT), the present study examined whether a cultural consensus on mindfulness exists among this group and what...
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
August 23, 2022
Edward J P O’Connor, Alistair Murphy, Mark J Kohler et al.
7 citations
Single-session meditation augmentation of sport-specific skill performance was tested with elite junior tennis athletes. Athletes completed one of two styles of mindfulness meditation (focused-attention or open-monitoring) or a control listening condition prior to performing an implicitly sequenced tennis serve return task involving the goal of hitting a target area placed on the service court....
Stress and Health
August 23, 2022
Abstract: This multi‐method study examined perspectives on mindfulness and coping strategies used by trauma‐exposed women experiencing homelessness (WEH), residing in a state‐funded residential drug treatment site in Southern California (United States). Questionnaires and in‐depth focus group interviews were utilised to examine traumatic experiences over the lifespan, probable‐posttraumatic...
Creative Arts in Education and Therapy
August 23, 2022
Tripura Kashyap, Anubha Doshi, Karishma Arora
2 citations
This article highlights the potential role of the “brahmaviharas,” a Buddhist concept which emphasizes certain spiritual dimensions and have been interlinked with dance movement therapy combined with other expressive arts, in responding effectively to the unpredictable life changes during pandemic situations such as the COVID-19. A multiple therapeutic–expressive–creative movement sequence...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
August 23, 2022
Docia Demmin, Steven M. Silverstein, Tracey J. Shors
22 citations
Teachers face significant stressors in relation to their work, placing them at increased risk for burnout and attrition. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about additional challenges, resulting in an even greater burden. Thus, strategies for reducing stress that can be delivered virtually are likely to benefit this population. Mental and Physical (MAP) Training combines meditation with aerobic...
Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
August 23, 2022
Paul Young, Vivien Chow, Cheryl O. Haslam et al.
13 citations
Our critical commentary explores the overlaps and divergences between Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) and contemporary mindfulness practice and considers whether the approaches could be integrated and applied effectively within two high performance settings in particular: sport and business. It highlights how REBT and mindfulness share similar philosophical positions on the causes of...
Nurse Media: Journal of Nursing
August 22, 2022
Zahra Delshad, Mohammad Aghajani
2 citations
Background: There is currently no definitive cure for restless legs syndrome (RLS), and the common treatments are only used to reduce symptoms. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an intervention that has shown beneficial effects in many mental and physical disorders.Purpose: This study aimed to determine the effect of MBSR on RLS in hemodialysis patients.Methods: This study was a...
Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings
August 19, 2022
K. H. Ginsberg, Jane M Alsweiler, Mohsen Alyami et al.
Parents with infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) experience high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression. Mindfulness and relaxation-based interventions are effective in reducing distress in the general postpartum population. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate whether mindfulness and/or relaxation-based interventions reduce stress, anxiety, and depression in NICU...
The American surgeon
August 18, 2022
Maggie L. Diller
There exists a robust amount of evidence supporting the broad application of mindfulness in a clinical environment. The evolution of mindfulness research is germane to modern surgical practice and education given its impact on patient outcomes, cognitive function, surgical skill, and mental health and wellbeing. "Mindfulness in surgical care, training, and practice" includes a series of...