International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
June 26, 2022
Shudian Cao, Soh Kim Geok, Samsilah Bte Roslan et al.
40 citations
Background: There is evidence that mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) can help one to recover from mental fatigue (MF). Although the strength model of self-control explains the processes underlying MF and the model of mindfulness and de-automatization explains how mindfulness training promotes adaptive self-regulation leading to the recovery of MF, a systematic overview detailing the effects...
Nurse and Health Jurnal Keperawatan
June 25, 2022
Rikhan Luhur Prasetya, Meidiana Dwidiyanti, Nur Setiawati Dewi
Background: Undergraduate nursing students have experience high levels of anxiety caused by academic, clinical practice and final assignments. This anxiety results in a decrease in students’ intellectual abilities and the risk of experiencing academic failures. Mindfulness is an effective intervention for reducing anxiety. Objectives: This scoping review aims to determine the kind of...
Journal of Religion and Health
June 24, 2022
Karisse A Callender, Lee Za Ong, Enaya H Othman
The goal of our study was to explore how first-generation immigrant/refugee Muslim women experience prayer and mindfulness in relation to their mental health. Participants were nine women from an urban city in the Midwestern USA. The women completed a structured demographic survey and a virtual semi-structured interview in a focus group. Using qualitative thematic analysis, we obtained four...
International Journal of Psychophysiology
June 24, 2022
Inka Papenfuss, Miriam J. J. Lommen, Marcel Huisman et al.
28 citations
THEORETICAL BACKGROUND: Intolerance of uncertainty plays a central role in anxiety and research suggests that it's an important treatment target. Investigating response to uncertainty using other dimensions than self-report, such as physiological responses, can further the effort to understand the role of uncertainty in anxiety more fully. Mindfulness interventions have become increasingly...
Advancing Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and Social Regulation
June 24, 2022
The historic roots of contemplative practice can be traced back to traditions in Buddhism, Confucianism, Aristotelian thought, and Christianity, with the most common contemplative practices including breathing meditation, quiet sitting, prayer, tai-chi, qigong, and yoga. Contemplative practices in contemporary times include more activities than traditionally conceptualized, including meditative...
Journal of Human Growth and Development
June 23, 2022
Dara Fernanda Brito Duarte, Jaiany Rodrigues Libório, Giovana Macêdo Egídio Cavalcante et al.
28 citations
Introduction: the public health crisis caused by COVID-19, a disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, has imposed physical threats and psychological suffering on both infected patients and individuals who experience social isolation and various governmental restrictions, leading to the appearance of symptoms like anxiety, depression, as well as insomnia, stress, and changes in biological rhythm. In face...
Journal of counseling and psychology
June 23, 2022
Jacob Schachter, Alex A. Ajayi, P. Nguyen
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only accounted for a substantial number of deaths in the United States but also deleterious mental health outcomes. We integrated multiple lines of previous research to better understand psychological strengths and difficulties in the face of the pandemic by testing a moderated mediation model that posited that rumination mediates the relationship between...
Religions
June 23, 2022
John Michael Chase
1 citation
Following insights by Pierre Hadot, I suggest that although explicit discussions of practices of breath control and other psychosomatic techniques of contemplative attention management are conspicuously absent in early Greek thought, there are some signs that analogous practices did exist, perhaps as early as Socrates. The combined evidence of Aristophanes and Plato suggests that Socrates may...
Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
June 22, 2022
Perceptions of Women With Comorbid PTSD and Substance Use Disorder on Mechanisms Underlying Mindfulness-Based Interventions.
Research, Society and Development
June 21, 2022
Marcelo Vilela Machado João, Marcelo Demarzo, Ysao Yamamura et al.
2 citations
Background and aims: Evaluate the effects of the use of abbreviated mindfulness and acupuncture in healthy individuals, evaluating the levels of depression, anxiety, and life quality in an outpatient clinic of a Brazilian federal university. Methods: Comparison of two abbreviated interventions (mindfulness- and acupuncture-based) in a non-randomized pragmatic feasibility pilot study, with...