Amy Louise Finlay‐jones, Jacqueline Ann Davis, Amanda O'Donovan et al.
BACKGROUND: Promoting psychological well-being and preventing distress among pregnant women is an important public health goal. In addition to adversely impacting the mother’s health and well-being, psychological distress in pregnancy increases the risk of poor pregnancy outcomes, compromises infant socioemotional development and bonding, and heightens maternal and child vulnerability in the...
Grant Jones, Felipe Herrmann, Matthew K. Nock
BACKGROUND: Race-based anxiety is a substantial health issue for the Black community. Although mindfulness interventions have demonstrated efficacy for alleviating anxiety, three central barriers prevent Black Americans from accessing existing mindfulness treatments: high costs, excessive time commitments, and limited cultural relevance. There is a need for novel mindfulness interventions for...
Danielle Phinette Aafke Bos, Mike Keesman, Arent Roggeveen et al.
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In an online study using a balanced placebo design, we examined whether decentering, a key component of mindfulness, and expectations, a key component of placebo effects, contribute additively or interactively to reducing anxiety related to the COVID-19 pandemic. 128 adults were randomly assigned to one of four groups: told effective/mindful decentering, told effective/sham decentering, told...
Hisanobu Kaiya, Asuka Hasegawa, Chika Komatsu et al.
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Abstract Background:The use of mindfulness in the treatment of anxiety and depression is becoming more and more widespread, but there are few reports that it has fundamentally changed patients' sense of life. Case Presentation:This report showed 9 year’s progress of treatment for Social Anxiety Disorder and Persistent Depressive Disorder in a 41year-old female patient experiencing a long-term...
Malihe Salmani
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Death anxiety can increase the negative attitude towards aging and even leads to anxiety and fear of aging. Therefore, it seems very important to know the psychological factors which affect death anxiety in the elderly. In this regard, the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between loneliness, spiritual intelligence and general health with death anxiety through the mediating role...
Yeow Ai Tong, Michelle G Newman
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BACKGROUND: Little is known about whether brief mindfulness ecological momentary interventions (MEMI) yield clinically beneficial effects. This gap exists despite the rapid growth of smartphone mindfulness applications. Specifically, no prior brief MEMI has targeted generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Moreover, although theories propose that MEMI can boost executive functioning (EF), they have...
Kimmo Sorjonen, Bo Melin
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A recent meta-analysis claimed decreasing prospective effects of acting with awareness and non-reacting, two facets of dispositional mindfulness, on subsequent anxiety and depressive symptoms. However, the meta-analytic cross-lagged effects were estimated while adjusting for a prior measurement of the outcome variable and it is known that such adjusted cross-lagged effects may be spurious due...
Anne Haas
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Although scant compared to research on younger women, research attention to the correlates of midlife women's body image is growing. This study investigates if mindfulness, voluntary simplicity lifestyle, and media exposure predict measures of body image (i.e., weight and non-weight appearance anxiety) among a community sample of midlife women (N = 391). Hierarchical regression analysis that...
Leorra Newman
The gold standard psychological treatment for social anxiety disorder (SAD), one of the most common anxiety disorders, is cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), incorporating cognitive restructuring to target maladaptive beliefs thought to maintain SAD. Recent evidence suggests that mindfulness- and acceptance-based approaches, emphasizing nonjudgmental awareness without active pursuit of...
Psychosomatic Medicine
Brian P Don, Patty van Cappellen, Barbara L. Fredrickson
Meditation interventions promote an array of well-being outcomes. However, the way in which these interventions promote beneficial outcomes is less clear. Here, we expanded on prior work by examining the influence of mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation on a key health behavior: physical activity. To test our hypotheses, we drew upon two randomized intervention studies. In the first...