JAMA Network Open
September 1, 2022
Sangeeta P Joshi, An-Kwok Ian Wong, Amanda Brucker et al.
Health care workers (HCWs) have been experiencing substantial stress and burnout, and evidence-based mitigation strategies are needed. Transcendental Meditation (TM) is a mantra meditation practice with potential efficacy in reducing stress. To assess the efficacy of TM practice in reducing stress among HCWs over a 3-month period. This single-center open-label randomized clinical trial was...
SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
September 1, 2022
Jayesh R. Jadhav
Modern life moves so quickly that there isn't even time to breathe. Science, business, political structures, and other areas of human endeavour have advanced dramatically. They are seeing an upsurge in mental illness, delinquency, crime, drug addiction, alcoholism, and suicide, among other things, despite their advancements in these domains. Social issues have always existed, ranging from...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
September 1, 2022
G. Wong, R. Sun, J. Adler et al.
Loving-Kindness Meditation (LKM) is an efficient mental practice with a long history that has recently attracted interest in the fields of neuroscience, medicine and education. However, the neural characters and underlying mechanisms have not yet been fully illustrated, which has hindered its practical usefulness. This study aimed to investigate LKM from varied aspects and interactions between...
International Journal of Yoga
September 1, 2022
Mrithunjay Rathore, Meghnath Verma, Mohit Nirwan et al.
28 citations
Meditation is a practice of concentration and relaxation. In philosophical terms, it is a process of gaining self-consciousness. Although there is diversity in meditation (Mindfulness, compassion, transcendental, and focused attention meditation), interventions show that meditation practices improve prefrontal cortex (PFC) functions like cognition, self-awareness, attention, and memory and...
International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology
August 31, 2022
Martina Rahe, Fabian Wolff, Petra Jansen
3 citations
The Coronavirus Pandemic has affected the lives of almost everyone. The study's primary goal is to analyze how mindfulness and heartfulness (gratitude and self-compassion) predict well-being and flourishing during the pandemic. Participants were 216 students completing questionnaires about well-being, flourishing, mindfulness, self-compassion, gratitude, physical activity, Coronavirus stress...
Jurnal Sportif
August 30, 2022
Adiwignya Nugraha Widhi Harita, S. Suryanto, Rahkman Ardi
Competitive state anxiety influences cognitive, emotional, and athlete behaviour while they have to perform perfectly in a competition. This study was conducted to analyze the effect of Mindfulness Sports Performance Enhancement (MSPE) training on competitive state anxiety of karate athletes in Surabaya. The research method used is quantitative with an experimental design. The sample in this...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
August 30, 2022
Xia Dong, Xiaojun Li, Xinsheng Jiang et al.
6 citations
The present study aimed to explore the roles of resilience, internal locus of control, and self-esteem in the link between mindfulness and benign/malicious envy (BE/ME). Nine hundred ninety-one participants (299 males, 692 females; mean age = 19.05 ± 1.54) completed a survey that assessed mindfulness, internal locus of control, resilience, self-esteem, and BE/ME. The results suggest that...
Holistic Nursing Practice
August 28, 2022
Pingting Zhu, Qiwei Wu, Xinyi Liu et al.
Posttraumatic growth (PTG) in patients with breast cancer has been reported. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) has been found to be effective in improving the psychological well-being during cancer care. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of MBSR on the levels of PTG, perceived social support, and quality of life. A sample of 101 participants who experienced early chemotherapy...
Journal of Consumer Affairs
August 27, 2022
Ellen Campos Sousa, Luciana Freire
15 citations
Abstract This paper offers a novel, easy to execute, mindfulness‐based solution to the waiting time problem at healthcare facilities in particular, with the potential to enhance consumers' experience within a waiting time scenario. Findings of four studies—one in‐class experiment with undergraduates, one field study among adults in a doctor's office, one online experiment in the US, and one...
Death Studies
August 25, 2022
Xiang-Zi Ji, Jia-Yuan Zhang
Abstract Intensive care units (ICUs) nurses experience a high level of death anxiety. Interventions that reduce death anxiety are needed. We conducted a nonrandomized study with 66 ICU nurses. The 34 in the intervention group received an 8-week tailored mindfulness-based intervention and the 32 in the control group received no intervention. Both groups completed pre and post-tests of death...