Brain Sciences
April 29, 2021
Kathryn J Devaney, Emily J Levin, Vaibhav Tripathi et al.
Meditation experience has previously been shown to improve performance on behavioral assessments of attention, but the neural bases of this improvement are unknown. Two prominent, strongly competing networks exist in the human cortex: a dorsal attention network, that is activated during focused attention, and a default mode network, that is suppressed during attentionally demanding tasks. Prior...
Brain Sciences
April 27, 2021
Gonzalo Tortella, Amedea Barozzi Seabra, Jorge Padrão et al.
54 citations
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on education. The restrictions imposed have undoubtedly led to impairment of the psychological well-being of both teachers and students, and of the way they experience interpersonal relationships. As reported previously in the literature, adverse effects such as loneliness, anxiety, and stress have resulted in a decrease in the cognitive...
International Journal of Health Studies
April 27, 2021
Shariat Homayoon, Tanaz Dabiri, Maryam Ghorbani Nezhad et al.
1 citation
Background: A breast cancer diagnosis can be a disturbing and stressful time for women. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction treatment depression and optimism during chemotherapy among women with breast cancer. Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental one with a group of pre-test, post-test, and controls. In this study, 26 women with breast...
Frontiers in Virtual Reality
April 27, 2021
Nina Döllinger, Carolin Wienrich, M. Latoschik
Mindfulness is considered an important factor of an individual's subjective well-being. Consequently, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has investigated approaches that strengthen mindfulness, i.e., by inventing multimedia technologies to support mindfulness meditation. These approaches often use smartphones, tablets, or consumer-grade desktop systems to allow everyday usage in users' private...
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
April 26, 2021
Fear of COVID-19 and Mental Health: The Role of Mindfulness in During Times of Crisis.
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
April 23, 2021
Jennifer Huberty, Jeni Green, Megan E. Puzia et al.
BackgroundMindfulness meditation smartphone apps may improve mental health but lack evidence-based behavioral strategies to encourage their regular use for attaining mental health benefits. In October 2019, the Calm mindfulness meditation app introduced a mood check-in feature, but its effects on participation in meditation have yet to be tested. ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to...
Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
April 23, 2021
Yanjuan Li, Yueqin Hu, Wanting Yang et al.
Traditional self-compassion-based interventions have been shown to be beneficial for improving psychological health. With the development of technology, online interventions accessible via smart phones start to emerge. The current study aimed to use daily assessments to investigate the effect of online daily self-compassion interventions and its improvement pattern. Sixty-five employees were...
Mindfulness
April 22, 2021
J. D. de Carvalho, Sofia Oliveira, M. Roberto et al.
Teachers’ stress can affect their occupational health and negatively impact classroom climate and students’ well-being. This study aims to evaluate the proximal and distal effects of a mindfulness-based program, specially developed to promote teachers’ social-emotional competencies (SEC), across teachers, classroom climates, and students’ outcomes. The study followed a randomized trial design...
Frontiers in Psychology
April 22, 2021
Yizhen Lu, Julien Remond, Michael Bunting et al.
We investigated the week-to-week effects of a mindfulness intervention on emotional exhaustion, work engagement, and job satisfaction in a field study involving 218 participants who participated and reported their weekly outcomes during the 8-week program. To examine how mindfulness impacted work outcomes, we used intraindividual modeling of the 8-week data. Mindfulness increased over time, and...
Children
April 22, 2021
Liliana Paulina Rojas-Torres, Yurena Alonso-Esteban, María Fernanda López-Ramón et al.
This study aims to develop a clinical trial to test the efficacy of a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and self-compassion (SC) program on self-reported values of anxiety, depression, and stress in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in primary school, in order to assess their integration into the framework of community intervention programs in Spain. Methods: A...