PsyArXiv
October 1, 2018
David Klingbeil, Tyler L. Renshaw
preprint
Teachers report high levels of occupational stress, which is associated with teacher turnover and potential negative consequences for students. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) may improve the protective factors that buffer educators against occupational stress. Although previous meta-analytic reviews synthesized the effects of MBIs for healthy and clinical samples of adults, this study...
Frontiers in Psychology
October 1, 2018
Tobias Lundgren, Gustaf Reinebo, Per-Olov Löf et al.
There is an increased interest in mindfulness, acceptance, and values based skills training interventions in sports but there is a lack of psychometrically evaluated instruments to investigate the processes adapted to sport populations. This paper describes the development and investigation of an instrument that measure acceptance, mindfulness, and values for ice hockey players. Ice hockey...
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services
October 1, 2018
Esther Bay, Roxane Raffin Chan
The current pre- and posttest intervention study is designed for individuals with chronic symptoms and stress associated with mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI). The researchers' intent was to evaluate whether an 8-week mindfulness-based group therapy compared to health promotion active control group therapy reduces chronic stress, TBI symptoms, and depressive symptoms. Significant...
Journal of pediatric psychology
October 1, 2018
Samuel M Waldron, Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert, Elizabeth M. Marks et al.
Objective: Dispositional mindfulness is the general tendency to pay attention to present-moment awareness without judgment. The main aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine (a) whether dispositional mindfulness is associated with psychological distress in adolescents with chronic pain and low-level pain, and (b) whether it accounts for unique variance in distress after controlling...
The Journal of Sexual Medicine
October 1, 2018
Jennifer A Bossio, Rosemary Basson, Miriam Driscoll et al.
Introduction: Recent advances in sexual health research support the benefits of mindfulness-based therapy (non-judgmental present-moment awareness) for the treatment of women's sexual dysfunction. Aim: To determine whether it is feasible to implement an adapted, empirically supported treatment protocol for female sexual dysfunction to the specific needs of men with situational erectile...
History of the Human Sciences
October 1, 2018
Matthew Drage
6 citations
In this article I examine an important episode in the growth of ‘mindfulness’ as a biomedical modality in Britain: the formation and establishment of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) by John Teasdale and his colleagues Mark Williams and Zindel Segal. My study, focusing on Teasdale’s contribution, combines ethnographic, oral historical and archival research to understand how...
Journal of Research and Health
October 1, 2018
Reza Ghasemi Jobaneh, Alimohammad Nazari, Bagher Sanai Zaker
6 citations
Addiction can cause many problems for the addict and family, so that the addict's family suffers from more problems.Addicts' wife suffer more psychological and marital problems.The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of mindfulness training on reducing couple burnout of addict's wife.The study was quasiexperimental that used the pretest-posttest whit control group.The population of...
Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology
October 1, 2018
Faizan Imtiaz, Li‐Jun Ji, Thomas I. Vaughan‐Johnston
8 citations
Emerging research is beginning to highlight the influence of mindfulness on cognitive performance. However, researchers have yet to examine how mindfulness impacts cognition after people experience adversity or challenge within a task. The present study aims to build upon the existing theoretical knowledge base by investigating how a low-dose mindfulness induction influences engagement, mood,...
Medicine
October 2018
Moon Joo Cheong, Sung-Eun Son, Hyung Won Kang et al.
The heart continuously transmits information to the cerebrum during each pulse, and influences information processing such as perception, cognition, and emotion, which are processed in the cerebrum. This is the basis for the theory of oriental medicine widely used in psychiatric medicine and clinical practice, so-called Simjushinji (heart and brain) theory, that the heart controls the mind. The...
Addiction & health
October 1, 2018
Mehdi Yaghubi, Fatemeh Zargar
Background: Quality of life (QOL) is always considered as a final consequence of clinical trials, interventions, and health care. The results of studies indicate that addiction leads to lower QOL. However, studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions on improving QOL. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of mindfulness-based relapse...