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Keep calm and carry on: an examination of outcomes following single-session mindfulness meditation training

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2013
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Mindfulness involves nonjudgmental awareness of the present moment. Previous research has found that higher levels of mindfulness are positively associated with adaptive psychological outcomes and negatively associated with maladaptive outcomes. We examined the effects of a 55-minute mindfulness training session comprised of psychoeducation and meditation. Questionnaires measuring mindfulness, emotion regulation, stress, anxiety, social behavior and emotion, and mood were administered pre and post session and at one week follow-up. Consistent with hypotheses, mindfulness and social behavior and emotion increased from pre-session to one-week follow-up and difficulties in emotion regulation, negative mood, and perceived stress significantly decreased. These findings suggest that some of the beneficial results found with longer, more intensive mindfulness training programs may be achievable with a short single-session intervention.
Title: Keep calm and carry on: an examination of outcomes following single-session mindfulness meditation training.
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Name(s): Stiksma, Melissa
Vernon, Laura
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Thesis
Date Created: Spring 2013
Date Issued: 2013
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: pdf
Extent: 40 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Mindfulness involves nonjudgmental awareness of the present moment. Previous research has found that higher levels of mindfulness are positively associated with adaptive psychological outcomes and negatively associated with maladaptive outcomes. We examined the effects of a 55-minute mindfulness training session comprised of psychoeducation and meditation. Questionnaires measuring mindfulness, emotion regulation, stress, anxiety, social behavior and emotion, and mood were administered pre and post session and at one week follow-up. Consistent with hypotheses, mindfulness and social behavior and emotion increased from pre-session to one-week follow-up and difficulties in emotion regulation, negative mood, and perceived stress significantly decreased. These findings suggest that some of the beneficial results found with longer, more intensive mindfulness training programs may be achievable with a short single-session intervention.
Identifier: FA00003536 (IID)
Note(s): Includes bibliography.
Thesis (B.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, 2013.
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