Do gender, anxiety, or sleep quality predict mindfulness-based stress reduction outcomes?

Brown, Megan M; Wolever, Ruth Q.; Smoski, Moria J.; Hall, Martica; Brantley, Jeffrey; Greeson, Jeffrey M.

doi:10.1177/1359105320931186

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“…We admit that an inclusion of a control group in the mindfulness training experimental design would be more rigorous. Though researchers have found that gender can influence the mindfulness training effect on emotion regulation (Brown et al, 2020), the fact that there was no gender ratio difference between the national and provincial teams relieved us from the suspicion of gender difference confounding. Future studies are still welcomed to explore how gender moderates the effect of mindfulness training in sports of shooting and archery.…”

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What Makes an Elite Shooter and Archer? The Critical Role of Interoceptive Attention

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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It is well-acknowledged that attention is important for expert performance in sports. However, the role of interoceptive attention, i.e., the attentional mechanism of awareness and conscious focus of bodily somatic and visceral signals, in self-paced and far-aiming sports remains to be explored. This study aims to investigate the relationship of expertise level and interoceptive attention ability in shooting and archery, and to examine if interoceptive attention can be improved by mindfulness training in elite athletes of shooting and archery. We tested the performance differences of 41 elite athletes from the Chinese national team of shooting and archery and 43 non-elite athletes from a provincial team in breath detection task (BDT) and dot flash detection task (DDT), which were designed to measure interoceptive and exteroceptive attention (i.e., attention toward information input of primary sensory), respectively. Furthermore, we applied mindfulness training to the 41 elite athletes for 5–8 weeks and remeasured their performances of BDT and DDT. Results showed that elite athletes outperformed non-elite athletes in BDT (but not in DDT) both in accuracy (DiffBDT = 11.50%, p = 0.004) and in discrimination sensitivity (d′, DiffBDT = 1.159, p = 0.002). Difference in accuracy and d′ reached significant level only in BDT (accuracy: DiffBDT = −8.50%, p = 0.001; d′: DiffBDT = −0.822, p = 0.003) before and after mindfulness training. These results indicate that elite athletes of shooting and archery (i.e., relative to non-elite athletes) can better perceive the somatic and visceral responses or changes and discriminate these signals from noises. Moreover, interoceptive attention can be improved by mindfulness training. These results have important implications for the selection and training of athletes of shooting and archery.

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What Makes an Elite Shooter and Archer? The Critical Role of Interoceptive Attention

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Front. Psychol.

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“…Stress responses manifest in chronic arousal and impaired function (Fink, 2017; Selye, 1974), whereas anxiety is a blend of thoughts and feelings characterized by a sense of uncontrollability and unpredictability over potentially adverse life events (Wilson, 1996). Research indicates a positive correlation between stress and anxiety (Al Nima et al, 2013; Brown et al, 2021; Saravanan & Wilks, 2014), and higher stress and anxiety are associated with lower happiness (Schiffrin & Nelson, 2010; Shilpa & Prasad, 2017). Considering that we referred to stress as stress response, we hypothesized that anxiety positively predicts stress (Hypothesis 1) and that stress and anxiety negatively predict happiness (Hypothesis 2): (a) High-stress response levels will be associated with low happiness levels, and (b) high anxiety levels will be associated with low happiness levels.…”

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Happiness during a mass trauma: Predicting happiness during the COVID-19 pandemic through function, stress, anxiety, and coping.

Cohen-Louck¹,

Levy²

2023

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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Objective: This study identifies the psychological mechanism that predicts happiness in mass trauma times by testing a model that includes coping styles, anxiety, stress, and function. Method: The survey comprised 509 respondents who answered questions about their demographic characteristics and ranked their happiness, stress, anxiety, function, and coping strategies. Structural equation modeling was used to test the model's goodness-of-fit analysis. Results: The theoretical model was a good fit for predicting happiness during COVID-19 but not for predicting general happiness. Problem-focused coping did not contribute to function. The final model includes emotion-focused coping, anxiety, stress, and function and predicts 37% of happiness during COVID-19. The statistically significant correlations include a strong, positive correlation between anxiety and stress (r = .71, p < .001); a weak, positive correlation between emotional coping and function (r = .24, p < .001); and moderate, negative correlations between anxiety and function (r = −.41, p < .001) and between function and stress (r = .24, p < .001). Function was positively associated with happiness (r = .39, p < .001), while stress was negatively associated with happiness (r = −.32, p < .001). Conclusions: This model indicates that anxiety, stress, function, and emotion-focused coping contribute to predicting happiness during mass trauma events such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…Thus, further studies should pay more attention to this. Furthermore, a previous study argued that men improved more in emotion suppression than women after MBI [73]. In this study, five selected articles mentioned the different genders of the participants, but none investigated whether the MBI has a different effect on MF between genders, which should be investigated in the future.…”

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confidence: 90%

Mindfulness-Based Interventions for the Recovery of Mental Fatigue: A Systematic Review

Cao

Geok

Roslan

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Background: There is evidence that mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) can help one to recover from mental fatigue (MF). Although the strength model of self-control explains the processes underlying MF and the model of mindfulness and de-automatization explains how mindfulness training promotes adaptive self-regulation leading to the recovery of MF, a systematic overview detailing the effects of MBI on the recovery of MF is still lacking. Thus, this systematic review aims to discuss the influences of MBI on the recovery of MF. Methods: We used five databases, namely, PubMed, Web of Science, EBSCOhost, Scopus, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) for articles published up to 24 September 2021, using a combination of keywords related to MBI and MF. Results: Eight articles fulfilled all the eligibility criteria and were included in this review. The MBI directly attenuated MF and positively affected the recovery of psychology (attention, aggression and mind-wandering) and sports performance (handgrip, plank exercise and basketball free throw) under MF. However, the interaction did not reach statistical significance for the plank exercise. Therefore, the experience and duration of mindfulness are necessary factors for the success of MBI. Conclusions: mindfulness appears to be most related to a reduction in MF. Future research should focus on improving the methodological rigor of MBI to confirm these results and on identifying facets of mindfulness that are most effective for attenuating MF.

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Do gender, anxiety, or sleep quality predict mindfulness-based stress reduction outcomes?

Cited by 15 publications

References 26 publications

What Makes an Elite Shooter and Archer? The Critical Role of Interoceptive Attention

What Makes an Elite Shooter and Archer? The Critical Role of Interoceptive Attention

Happiness during a mass trauma: Predicting happiness during the COVID-19 pandemic through function, stress, anxiety, and coping.

Mindfulness-Based Interventions for the Recovery of Mental Fatigue: A Systematic Review

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