Frontiers in Psychology
October 2, 2025
Lea Loncar, Charlotte Fiskum
1 citation
Detached self-observation, a central dimension of mindfulness meditation, has emerged as a key metacognitive and emotional-regulatory capacity across psychology, education, and neuroscience. This theoretical paper proposes meditation as a developmental catalyst, drawing on contemporary scholarship. Detached observation is reframed here as a culturally mediated competence grounded in both...
Psychological Reports
October 2025
Qiang Xie
Peace of mind is an important affective well-being valued in Chinese culture. Mindfulness and self-compassion could potentially promote peace of mind. However, the mechanisms underlying these effects were not well understood. The current cross-sectional study aimed to investigate whether nonattachment explained the effects of mindfulness and self-compassion on peace of mind. A sample of 364...
Journal of Affective Disorders
October 1, 2025
Xueke Wang, Li Chen, Tingyong Feng
Psychological interventions based on mindfulness and cognition have shown promise for treating ADHD, yet their application in children remains understudied. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness and sustainability of mindfulness and cognitive strategy interventions in reducing core symptoms of ADHD in children. A randomized controlled trial (RCT) was conducted involving 70 children...
JCO Oncology Practice
October 1, 2025
Jennifer R Majumdar, Shiela M. Strauss, Tamara R Strah et al.
418 Background: Caregivers of patients undergoing ambulatory cancer surgery often experience acute anxiety in surgical waiting rooms, which can impair their ability to support postoperative recovery. Although mindfulness-based interventions are effective, traditional formats are time- and resource-intensive, limiting feasibility in fast-paced clinical settings. This pilot study evaluated a...
Patient Preference and Adherence
October 1, 2025
K. Makkabphalanon, Pramote Thangkratok, Chedhakitd Bunnaphasitthasothin et al.
Background Approximately 50% of older adults experience sleep disturbances. The preservation of high-quality sleep is essential; consequently, there is a pressing need for effective interventions to enhance sleep quality. Purpose This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of the Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy (MBAT) on sleep quality, depression anxiety stress, and mindful attention...
Sport Mont
October 1, 2025
Manjula 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...
Sports
October 1, 2025
S. 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...
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
October 1, 2025
Meng Yu, Yu-Chang Jin, Jun-Xiu An et al.
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...
International Journal of Novel Research and Development
October 1, 2025
K Balaji, Prof.PANDIAMANI Sivam
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...
Mindfulness
October 1, 2025
Blake A Colaianne, Raymond S. Falcone
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...