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Title
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A neuropsychological examination of the effects of mindfulnesss meditation in elementary school children.
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Creator
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Klco, Sara Elizabeth., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
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Abstract/Description
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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,...
Show moreMany 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.
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Date Issued
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2010
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2100574
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Subject Headings
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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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Format
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Document (PDF)