Sport MontOctober 1, 2025Manjula Rathinam, Eswari Varadharajan, Robert Çitozi et al.
Obesity in middle-aged women is commonly linked with chronic inflammation, psychological stress, and poor sleep quality. Holistic, non-pharmacological approaches such as yoga and mindfulness may offer multidimen- sional benefits. This randomized controlled trial investigated the impact of a 12-week yoga and mindfulness meditation program on psychological stress, inflammatory markers, and sleep...
SportsOctober 1, 2025S. Stoyanova, Nikolay Ivantchev, Teodor Gergov et al.
It is important to study if and how athletes’ mental resilience and mindfulness are connected, because both could promote mental health, as well as facilitate coping with stress and successful athletic performance. It was hypothesized that mental resilience and mindfulness would correlate, and also that mental resilience and mindfulness would differ in both means and correlation strength...
Mindfulness-based meditation has been proposed as a complementary approach to support immune function in cancer patients, yet its biological effects remain unclear and heterogeneous across biomarkers. This study systematically reviewed and quantitatively synthesized empirical evidence using a three-level random-effects meta-analysis to account for statistical dependence among multiple effect...
This review critically evaluates the article “The Impact of Transcendental Meditation on Happiness and Self-Efficacy among University Students” by Singh, Singh, and Pradhan (2024). The study investigates the effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM) on university students’ happiness and self-efficacy. The authors report significant improvements after a six-month TM program. This review...
Abstract School-based mindfulness programs (SBMPs) are widely used to support student well-being, yet questions remain about their impact and developmental relevance for adolescents. Most critiques of adolescent SBMPs have focused on implementation challenges. Here, we expand the discussion to include a critique of the curriculum itself, arguing that adolescent SBMPs largely overlook the...
Schizophrenia BulletinOctober 1, 2025Julia Cassaniti, Chaiyun Sakulsriprasert, T M Luhrmann
Background and hypothesis: Research has found that the content and valence of voices heard by persons with schizophrenia appear to be shaped by local culture. We interviewed twenty participants about their voices in Suan Prung Hospital in Chiang Mai, Thailand to see if, and how, there appeared to be such local influences. Study design: In an ethnographically driven and phenomenological study,...
Background: Living with mobility disabilities can be associated with psychological and social challenges.Certain interventions have been found to assist individuals with disabilities in coping with issues related to pain and rumination.Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of mindful compassion in reducing pain catastrophizing and rumination among women with mobility...
Combining esoteric Buddhist breathing techniques and visualisations, contemporary psychology and chaplaincy, and various world meditations, the meditative therapies used with clients of Japan's Ōshita Daien 大下大園 (1954–) and Takayama Seiei 高山誓英 (1948–) are case studies in entangled influences and modern adaptation. Ōshita Daien is a profoundly influential figure in the field of ‘spiritual care’...
• Mindfulness increases consumer preference for delayed gratification. • This effect occurs by slowing subjective time and expanding future perspective. • Mindfulness made consumers more willing to wait but not more reward-sensitive. • Findings inform marketing strategies using mindfulness in intertemporal choice promotions. Consumers frequently face intertemporal choices that require trading...
Abstrak Kecemasan merupakan salah satu permasalahan psikologis yang sering dialami mahasiswa ketika menghadapi tugas akhir atau penyusunan skripsi. Kecemasan ini dapat mempengaruhi konsentrasi, motivasi, dan produktivitas akademik mahasiswa. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh mindfulness terhadap tingkat kecemasan mahasiswa dalam menyusun skripsi di Fakultas Psikologi...
Virtual reality (VR) mindfulness meditation has emerged as a prominent emotion regulation strategy in recent years. Current research often seeks to enhance meditation effectiveness through biofeedback and overlooks the trajectory of emotional changes and the changing needs during regulation. In this study, we propose an electroencephalography (EEG)–based positive feedback mechanism for VR...
Abstract Objective This study sought to evaluate the efficacy of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on symptoms of posttraumatic stress, depression, anxiety, and perceived stress and quality of life in unstably-housed women undergoing substance use disorder (SUD) treatment. Despite the potential for MBSR to be a helpful adjunct to ongoing care, prior research on the benefit of MBSR in...
Abstract Objectives This study sought to determine whether mindfulness meditation training via a simple meditation app can improve well-being among graduate students. Method Graduate students were recruited from STEM programs at the University of Florida. Participants were randomly assigned into treatment and control groups. The control group continued with their typical routines during the...
CureusOctober 1, 2025Xinmin Jiang, Minghui Zhang, Jiaqi Wang et al.
This meta-analysis was conducted to investigate the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on the treatment and improvement of traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Up until February 6, 2025, PubMed, Web of Science, and Embase databases were searched for randomized controlled trials of MBSR-based treatment for PTSD patients. RevMan 5.4 software (The Cochrane Collaboration, London, UK)...
Given the close link between cardiovascular disease and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), it is appropriate to focus on the symptoms of PTSD throughout the cardiology care pathway. The aim of the study presented here, which involved 67 patients, was to integrate an intervention based on mindfulness meditation into a cardiovascular rehabilitation programme and then to assess its impact on...
Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms (OCS) arise from maladaptive appraisal of intrusive thoughts, for which Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) can be a major risk factor, due to distorted senses of responsibility and control. Emerging research suggests Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) can be beneficial for reducing OCS, but existing mechanistic understandings are still based on exposure...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) has become the second largest risk factor affecting human health, with a progress in its treatment especially non-pharmacological therapies. The loving-kindness meditation (LKM) has been introduced to depression but is not popular due to requirement on awareness and concentration, and its utilization in clinical MDD is absent as well as exploration on neural...
Mindfulness meditation (MM) has been shown to effectively alleviate symptoms of Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) and improve neural functioning. However, it remains unclear whether both online and face-to-face MM can enhance cortical structure, a stable and reliable neural biomarker. This study included 100 IGD patients randomly assigned to three groups: face-to-face MM (31 participants), online...
This study investigated the bioelectric brain activity associated with Zen meditation in an ecologically valid monastic setting, comparing experienced Zen practitioners with non-meditating controls. The experimental group consisted of Vietnamese monks from Truc Lam Tay Thien and Truc Lam Thuong Chieu monasteries, while the control group comprised non-practitioners. EEG data were collected using...