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January 31, 2023 Dana W. Sawyer, Cynthia Humes
This Element provides a comprehensive overview of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) Movement and its offshoots. Several early assessments of the as a cult and/or new religious movement are helpful, but are brief and somewhat dated. This Element examines the TM movement's history, beginning in India in 1955, and ends with an analysis of the splinter groups that have come along in the past...
Contemporary School Psychology January 30, 2023 Adrienne Garro, Mikela Janal, Kelly Kondroski et al.
The use of mindfulness in schools has greatly expanded over the past 10 years. Research has demonstrated positive psychological effects of mindfulness for students as well as teachers (Emerson et al., Mindfulness 8:1136-1149, 2017; Semple et al., Psychology in the Schools 54:29-52, 2017). Similarly, studies focusing on mindfulness interventions for parents of children with disabilities and/or...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) January 30, 2023 Nilamani Maharana, Rupashree Goswami 1 citation preprint
Abstract: Resilience is a character quality that enables people to successfully navigate difficult situations, change, and grow. Mindfulness is defined as paying attention to a state of consciousness that shows the mind is present and has a heightened and purposeful awareness of internal and external sensations occurring at a specific time. The aim of the present study was to investigate the...
Mindfulness January 30, 2023 Larissa Lusnig, Markus J. Hofmann, Ralph Radach 5 citations
Abstract Objectives Research on the effects of meditation practice on reading performance is a new and promising field of research. However, the evidence on whether meditation improves reading comprehension and/or speed in continuous reading is inconclusive. The present work addresses this question. Method For the present longitudinal study, undergraduate students (n = 52) participated in a...
Behavioral Sciences January 30, 2023 Mohammed Laeequddin, K Abdul Waheed, Vinita Sahay
Research studies have established that mindfulness helps in psychological well-being, stress reduction, chronic pain management, behavioral therapy, and other areas including organizational development. Mindfulness often refers to a state of consciousness, but mindfulness can also be understood as a personality trait. State mindfulness is referred as the individual's capacity to cultivate a...
Faṣlnāmah-i Farhang Mushavirah va Ravān/Darmānī January 30, 2023 Fatemeh Eslahi Farshami, Ali Asghar Asgharnejad Farid, Khadijeh Abolmoali Alhosseini et al.
The present study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness training based metaphors of Molavi's Masnavi on components of psychological capital among depressed female students. In this study, to extract the metaphors of Molavi's Masnavi, directional qualitative content analysis and quantitative content analysis were used with MAXQDA software. The identified codes were...
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology January 30, 2023 Tadas Vadvilavičius, Erika Varnagirytė, G. Jarašiūnaitė-Fedosejeva et al.
The profession of a police officer is associated with high levels of stress, which can have harmful consequences for officers’ personal lives, the police organisation, and society. This systematic review aims to synthesise recent literature on the effectiveness of mindfulness-based intervention related to stress reduction (MBIs) in a sample of police officers. The search of relevant articles...
Chronic Diseases Journal January 30, 2023 Fatemeh Yousefzadeh
BACKGROUND: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is an effective psychological approach for chronic mood disorders. This study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of MBCT on depression and anxiety in women with systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) within a 3-month follow-up. METHODS: This study was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design and control group. Study population...
Mindfulness January 30, 2023 Anthony P Zanesco, Brandon G King, Quinn A Conklin et al.
Objectives Contemplative practice can occasion powerful psychological experiences. Yet few empirical studies have investigated whether their occurrence is associated with intensive meditation-based interventions. Here, we assess the prevalence of profound, meaningful, and mystical experiences in experienced meditators during a month-long insight meditation retreat compared to a control group of...
Indian Journal of Science and Technology January 29, 2023 Division Of Yoga And Physical Sciences, Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (svyasa), Bengaluru, India, B P Ushamohan, Yamini Belur et al. 2 citations
Background: Bhramari pranayama, a yogic technique comprises a selfvocalized humming sound emulating a female bumblebee. Attention to this sound leads to a meditative state. The component of its stimuli, the sustained self-evoked humming sound with breath control, is overt unlike the stimuli of most of the meditations. These observable and measurable components of Bhramari pranayama offer a rare...
Supportive Care in Cancer January 28, 2023 Ching-I Chang, Mei-Ling Yeh, Justin Liao
To evaluate the effect of Chan-Chuang qigong with breathing meditation on quality of life (QoL) and interoceptive awareness in patients with breast cancer during chemotherapy. This was a randomised controlled trial. Participants were randomly assigned to a qigong group (n = 30), which practised Chan-Chuang qigong with breathing meditation for 15 weeks, and a control group (n = 30), which...
Salud Mental January 27, 2023 Carolina Eugenia Cáceres Videla, Rocío Carlota Cáceres Melillo
Background. Previous reviews have concluded that whilst mindfulness-based interventions reduce PTSD symptoms through fear extinction and cognitive restructuring, further research is needed. Objective. The aim of this report is to systematically review existing literature about the association between standardized mindfulness-based interventions and PTSD with the aim of identifying implications...
Healthcare January 26, 2023 Maggie Lawrence, Bridget Davis, Leyla De Amicis et al.
Background: Following stroke, rates of mood disorder are and remain high at five years (anxiety 34.4%; depression 23%). Structured mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) courses are effective in a range of health conditions, but stroke survivors find adherence challenging. We aimed to adapt a standard MBSR course specifically for people affected by stroke. Methods: We recruited stroke...
Mindfulness January 25, 2023 Lukas Bossert, Karla Arzberger, Fabian Dorok et al. 14 citations
Abstract Objectives Previous meta-analyses suggested that mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) may have beneficial effects on telomere length (TL) and telomerase activity (TA), two biological markers of cellular aging and cell stress. The present review aimed to provide the most comprehensive synthesis of the available evidence to date and tested a number of important effect moderators....
BMC Psychology January 25, 2023 Nasim Badaghi, Mette van Kruijsbergen, Judith Prins et al.
One third of cancer patients and survivors experience psychological distress. Previous studies have shown that online mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (eMBCT) supports cancer patients and survivors in managing distress. Lack of peer support and asynchronicity during online interventions have been reported as barriers for treatment adherence and can result in higher drop-out rates....
International Journal of Reproduction Contraception Obstetrics and Gynecology January 25, 2023 S. Mehta, Anshul Grover, Ekta Kale et al.
Background: Yoga is a practice which amalgamates the emotional, mental, physical and spiritual aspects of the human body through physical postures(asanas), breathing exercises (pranayama), concentration and meditation (dharana and dhyana). Evaluation of databases suggests a positive role of yoga in pregnancies associated with depression, anxiety and lumbosacral pain and also in reducing...
Mindfulness January 24, 2023 Sophia Kauser, Michail Mantzios, Rebecca Keyte et al. 3 citations
Abstract Objectives Mindfulness practices are increasingly being recognised as beneficial in supporting health, wellbeing, and psychological functioning. There is currently limited evidence of how mindfulness is used within a population of individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF). In order to effectively inform the development of future psychological mindfulness-based interventions for this...
INQUIRY: Jurnal Ilmiah Psikologi January 24, 2023 Dinar Saputra, Dwita Prianti, Alifia Ulie Mizana Hadori et al.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat efektivitas MBAT (mindfulness based art therapy) untuk mereduksi gejala depresi yang dialami mahasiswa. MBAT merupakan salah satu pendekatan terapi yang menggabungkan elemen inti dari kurikulum Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) dengan pendekatan art therapy. Responden penelitian ini berjumlah dua orang mahasiswa dengan gejala depresi pada level...
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development January 24, 2023 Xiaojuan Gao 39 citations
Mindfulness has been overlooked in previous studies of second or foreign language learning. This study aims to explore the relationship between mindfulness, anxiety, burnout and self-perceived foreign language proficiency among a sample of 492 learners. Further, it seeks to make up for the deficiency in the current empirical literature regarding the mediation roles of anxiety and burnout in the...
Nursing Open January 24, 2023 Hui Liu, L. Kong, Qian Sun et al.
This meta‐analysis aimed to determine the effect of mindfulness interventions on nurses' levels of depression and anxiety.