Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a prevalent metabolic disorder that can occur during pregnancy, leading to various complications for both the mother and the fetus. Additionally, women with gestational diabetes are at a higher risk of experiencing mental health disorders. This study was conducted to investigate the impact of group counselling based on mindfulness on perceived stress in...
Deficits in positive emotion regulation (PER) contribute to emotional disorders but are less studied than negative emotion regulation (NER). One maladaptive PER strategy, positive emotion contrast-seeking (PEC-seeking), involves sustaining negative affect to enhance later positive emotions, reinforcing anxiety and depression. This study developed and tested a savoring-based, transdiagnostic...
Introduction Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is increasingly recognized for its role in improving university students' mental health and academic performance. This systematic review evaluates the impact of MBSR on stress, anxiety, depression, cognitive flexibility, and emotional regulation. Methods Following PRISMA guidelines, 34 high-quality studies published between 2012 and 2024...
Veterans' reluctance to engage in mental health treatment coupled with high attrition in such treatment should motivate practitioners and researchers to create innovative ways to treat veterans. Nature-based interventions show promise as a means for addressing veterans' mental health needs. The present study aimed to test the feasibility and acceptability of a manualized nature-based...
Although mindfulness is widely acknowledged to foster resilience, limited research has examined how palliative care providers sustain this practice and how it shapes their resilience. This study explores how providers with sustained mindfulness practice, understand, and embody the cultivation of resilience across personal and professional domains. Fifteen palliative care providers (three...
Sleep may appear to be the easiest thing for human beings; however, it is, in fact, a complex phenomenon influenced by many factors—including sleep disorders. Being unable to sleep normally brings great threat to the publication of human beings. In order to avoid many bad consequences, scientists have found ways to deal with them. This article discusses some different sleep disorders, ways to...
The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in enhancing the executive functions of students with sluggish cognitive tempo. The study was conducted using a semi-experimental method that involved a pre-test and post-test design and a control group. The study population consisted of all male students in the first year of secondary school in...
BACKGROUND: Life satisfaction, a fundamental dimension of subjective well-being, exerts a positive influence on both physical and mental health outcomes. The present research aims to explicate the intricate interplay among mindfulness, sexual relational concerns, and health-related behaviors concerning women's life satisfaction, employing a path analysis framework. METHODS: The current...
Emotional dysregulation is a multidimensional construct, understood as frequent and intense experience of emotions combined with a lack of ability to cope with their occurrence. Adolescence represents a crucial developmental period where emotional dysregulation is being increasingly addressed as an emerging mental health issue, with implications on overall well-being, as well as a potential...
Meditation and Yoga practices are being adopted and gaining considerable interest as a tool that prevents the occurrence of numerous ailments. Meditation is well prescribed in several old religious manuscripts and has origins in past Indian practices that encourage emotional and personal well-being. Two different classification tasks were performed. One way to identify the mind state allied...
Current PsychologyJuly 18, 2025Sofia Magalhães, Isabel Rasteiro, Inês Soeiro et al.
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has strongly interfered with young people’s health-related quality of life (HRQoL), increasing the vulnerability of this population. As a result, researchers have been emphasizing the necessity to ascertain the protective factors against the pandemic impact. Still, little is known about these factors in adolescence. Pre-pandemic studies showed that dispositional...
Background: The present study investigated the sustained effects of a 5-week EmotionCore mindfulness training program on emotion regulation, emotional intelligence (EI), trait mindfulness, depression, and anxiety among 120 undergraduates, while exploring the mediating mechanisms of training effect and heterogeneous effects across subgroups. Methods: Participants were randomly assigned to a...
Increased rates of adverse health conditions across the spectrum of cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, and metabolic disease (CKM) have been linked to social, psychological, and environmental stressors. Stress from daily living can elicit protective responses from multiple physiological systems that include psychological/neurocognitive and biological/cellular pathways. Excessive exposure...
With growing access to the internet, online mindfulness programmes have become more commonly used to manage physical and mental health conditions. This scoping review aims to determine the nature and extent of the literature, and key characteristics, of online mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) for adults with physical or mental health conditions. A scoping review guided by the Joanna...
Depression in children is a concerning societal issue and can be associated with poor academic performance, school dropout, and poor overall quality of life. Additionally, child depression is often associated with parallel stress and depression in parents. This scenario highlights the urgent need for the development and implementation of accessible and scalable solutions that may cobenefit...
Medical students experience high rates of psychological distress, including depression, anxiety, burnout, and suicidality, due to rigorous academic demands. Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI) have demonstrated small-to-moderate effectiveness in reducing stress and improving well-being, yet culturally adapted and developmentally appropriate programs for Indonesian medical students remain...
BMC PsychologyJuly 17, 2025Igor Bartolen, Petra Soláriková
Optimal stress management and maintaining a good quality of sleep are essential parts of healthy physical and psychological flourishing. Especially young adult university students have shown vulnerability to stress related outcomes and sleep quality disturbances, due to various factors associated with personal life events, academic stress, self-responsibilities, etc. A novel method for mental...
This study proposes an experimental analysis to evaluate whether the ELF-EMF affects EEG signals within meditation. An experiment procedure is designed, and several types of equipment are hired together as a meditation measurement estimation system. Subjects doing meditation with an ELF-EMF device and without an ELF-EMF device, respectively. Then, the measurement system acquired EEG signals...
Purpose: The study's purposes were: (a) to explore the impact of mindfulness interventions regarding ease and confidence in the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesia (CRNA) and Masters' Entry Advanced Generalist Nursing (MEAGN) graduate nursing programs and (b) to assess and compare the perceptions of mindfulness interventions between students in the CRNA and MEAGN programs. Study design:...
Anxiety symptoms are highly prevalent among Chinese university students, significantly impairing psychosocial functioning. Although mindfulness has been identified as a protective psychological factor, the precise mechanisms underlying its association with anxiety symptom alleviation remain insufficiently understood. This study investigates the serial mediation effects of rumination and...