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neuropsychological examination of the effects of mindfulnesss meditation in elementary school children
| Title: | A neuropsychological examination of the effects of mindfulnesss meditation in elementary school children. |
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| Name(s): |
Klco, Sara Elizabeth. Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Department of Psychology |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Date Issued: | 2010 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Physical Form: | electronic | |
| Extent: | vii, 40 p. : ill. (some col.) | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | Many recent studies have confirmed that mindfulness meditation has wide ranging potential to improve the mental health and well-being of adults, though few studies have explored its potential to help younger populations. In the current study, a sample of 4th and 2nd grade students was trained in the techniques of mindfulness meditation. Baseline electroencephalograms (EEGs) were taken before the training, and again after a 10 week period of daily meditation practice. Measures of attention, creativity, affect, depression, behavioral inhibition/activation, emotion regulation, impulsive/aggressive behaviors, and social anxiety were also administered before and after the meditation practice period. Results indicate that mindfulness meditation produces increased relative left-frontal alpha activation, a brain pattern that has been associated with increased positive affect and more adaptive coping responses to aversive events. Significant post-meditation improvements in depression and creativity were also found in the experimental condition. | |
| Identifier: | 624797876 (oclc), 2100574 (digitool), FADT2100574 (IID), fau:3009 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
by Sara Elizabeth Klco. Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. Includes bibliography. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject(s): |
Education, Humanistic Meditation -- Health aspects Medicine, Psychosomatic Mind and body Self-esteem in children Neuropsychology Children, Counseling of Creative thinking in children |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2100574 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
