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i-manager's Journal on Educational Psychology 2016
A quasi experimental study was conducted at a South West State University counseling program to investigate if using meditation techniques would lower levels of anxiety and create mindfulness attention awareness among counseling students enrolled in a counseling skills course, taught in a masters-level counseling program. A total of 29 students were recruited from three counseling skills...
Scholars Archive - University at Albany 2016 Jamie Rae Forsyth
Although meditation has been around for centuries, it’s only recently that the utility of such an ancient practice has gained popularity within Western psychology. A vast body of literature supports the notion that meditation can have important impacts on suffering and psychopathology; however, few studies have evaluated differential effects between various forms of meditation. The aims of this...
Journal of abnormal child psychology 2016 Justin Parent, Laura G McKee, Jennifer N Rough et al.
The primary purpose of the current study was to test a model examining the process by which parent dispositional mindfulness relates to youth psychopathology through mindful parenting and parenting practices. The universality of the model across youth at three developmental stages was examined: young childhood (3-7 years; n = 210), middle childhood (8-12 years; n = 200), and adolescence (13-17...
Global Advances in Health and Medicine 2016 Holger Cramer, Romy Lauche, Heidemarie Haller et al.
Background: Mindfulness- and acceptance-based interventions are increasingly studied as a potential treatment for a variety of mental conditions. Objective: To assess the effects of mindfulness- and acceptance-based interventions on psychotic symptoms and hospitalization in patients with psychosis. Methods: MEDLINE/PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, and PsycINFO were screened from inception...
Social Neuroscience 2016 Feng Kong, Xu Wang, Yiying Song et al.
Mindfulness can be viewed as an important dispositional characteristic that reflects the tendency to be mindful in daily life, which is beneficial for improving individuals' both hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. However, no study to date has examined the brain regions involved in individual differences in dispositional mindfulness during the resting state and its relation with hedonic and...
Psicologia Teoria e Pesquisa 2016 Carolina Baptista Menezes, Mirtes G. Pereira, Izabela Mocaiber et al.
ABSTRACT This pilot study assessed the effects of a five day focused meditation training on the interplay between emotional interference and anxiety in a non clinical sample randomized into two groups (experimental=13; control=18). Emotional interference was indexed comparing the reaction times in an attention span task with negative or neutral distracting images. Anxiety experienced during the...
Oxford University Press eBooks 2016 Vidyamala Burch 2 citations
This chapter discusses the beneficial role meditation can play in the management of chronic pain and illness. It contains a review of the prevalence of pain within society and the high costs borne by both the individual and health systems. It then goes on to explore how meditation and awareness training can reduce the individual’s suffering with a review of the evidence base. The Breathworks’...
International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences 2016 Yadneshwar Khobragade, Adinegara Lutfi Abas, Ankur Barua et al. 3 citations
Heart diseases especially Hypertension, Coronary Artery Diseases (CAD) and stroke are the leading causes of death all over the world. Hostility, anxiety, depression and increased reactivity to mental stress have been strongly associated with hypertension and CAD. Mental stress or anxiety causes increased sympathetic activation and poor vagus nerve control over heart. Imbalance between...
2016 Jian-feng Tan, Po-yee Lo, Nie Ge et al.
We examined self-esteem as a mediator of the relationship between mindfulness and social anxiety in a Chinese cultural context. Participants comprised 508 Chinese undergraduate students, who completed the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and Interaction Anxiousness Scale. Results showed that social anxiety was negatively correlated with mindfulness and...
2016 Chunqi Changd
The activities of the brain and the heart are dynamic, chaotic, and possibly intrinsically coordinated. This study aims to investigate the effect of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program on the chaoticity of electronic activities of the brain and the heart, and to explore their potential correlation. Electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrocardiogram (ECG) were recorded at the...