Archives of Neuroscience
July 14, 2017
Holly Hazlett-Stevens
6 citations
: Mindfulness meditation and mindfulness-based interventions offer numerous clinical benefits related to improved affect regulation and emotional functioning. Psychological and emotional benefits of dispositional mindfulness, conceptualized as an individual difference trait found among the meditation-naïve, also have been demonstrated. This literature review article describes five specific...
International Journal of Disability, Development and Education
July 13, 2017
Catherine Malboeuf-Hurtubise, Mireille Joussemet, Geneviève Taylor et al.
30 citations
Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) have been increasingly implemented in schools to foster better emotional regulation skills for students with special education needs such as learning disabilities (LDs). This pilot study aimed to evaluate the impact of a MBI on the need satisfaction of elementary students with severe LDs. A prospective quasi-experimental design involving one group and two...
Routledge eBooks
July 12, 2017
Richard J. Davidson
This chapter explores the association between the practices of relatively passive, sitting meditation and absorption and anxiety using a cross-sectional design. It provides a foundation for more systematic longitudinal research with the variables in the future. The type of meditation practiced by the subjects was varied and ranged from transcendental meditation to Zen and traditional Buddhist...
Journal of General Internal Medicine
July 12, 2017
Eric L Garland, Anne Baker, Paula Larsen et al.
Background: Medical management of acute pain among hospital inpatients may be enhanced by mind-body interventions. Objective: We hypothesized that a single, scripted session of mindfulness training focused on acceptance of pain or hypnotic suggestion focused on changing pain sensations through imagery would significantly reduce acute pain intensity and unpleasantness compared to a...
Routledge eBooks
July 12, 2017
Arthur J. Deikman
Meditation has become acceptable to Western culture and a subject of increasing interest to scientists. It has been studied in university laboratories, adapted to statistical analysis, and translated into various physiological dimensions, all of which has yielded data of increasing refinement. Meditation was developed as part of a teaching system whose purpose was spiritual growth. "Spiritual...
Peshawar Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
July 12, 2017
Sadia Niazi, Adnan Adil
The present research aimed at examining the role of mindfulness and psychological wellbeing in the relationship between external locus of control and depression. Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (Baer, 2003), Ryff Scale of Wellbeing (Ryff, 1989), DAAS Depression Subscale (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995), and Rotter’s Locus of Control Scale (Rotter, 1966) were administered on a convenient sample...
July 12, 2017
Paul G. Williams
Transcendental meditation is a form of mantra meditation which is simple to learn and requires no adherence to any special philosophy. The electroencephalogram (EEG) responses to intermittent photic stimulation were examined in a group of subjects experienced in meditation, and compared with those of a control group. Photic stimulation was then delivered aperiodically around a mean...
July 12, 2017
Terry V. Lesh
5 citations
Some of the most consistent findings suggest that the counselor&s;s use of accurate empathy is directly related to the positive growth of the client. C. R. Rogers probably comes closest to an ideal description of what empathy means in counseling. Accurate empathy has been difficult to measure with any degree of reliability. In another very comprehensive study of empathy, it was decided that the...
July 12, 2017
Deane H. Shapiro
2 citations
E. Maupin had ordinary subjects focus on breathing for several sessions. These subjects’ meditation experiences were rated on a five-point scale by “blind” judges. A discrete altered state of consciousness is a radically different way of handling information from the physical, intrapersonal, and interpersonal environments, yet the discrete altered state of consciousness may be as arbitrary as...
July 12, 2017
Daniel Brown
2 citations
The main reason that the Rorschach was useful as a validating instrument was that we used it as a measure of cognitive and perceptual change, not as a personality measure, as it is so often used. The Rorschach was administered individually in the traditional manner by a half-dozen Rorschach clinicians, only one of whom was familiar with the hypotheses of the experiment to minimize experimenter...