Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Self-Rated Stress-related Measures: Improvements in Neuroticism and Ecological Momentary Assessment of Stress

OkenBarry,; MillerMeghan,; GoodrichElena,; WahbehHelane,

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“…construct of neuroticism (Carl et al, 2014;Oken et al, 2014). The form of the EQPR-S used in the present study showed high test-retest reliability between screening and pre-treatment, indicating that the significantly lower scores after the interventions is unlikely to be due to measurement error of the instrument.…”

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“…Practising a more detached perspective on thoughts and feelings may help to prevent negative thinking becoming perseverative and developing into a vicious cycle with low or anxious mood, hence resulting in decreased emotional sensitivity in highly neurotic individuals. A study by Oken, Miller, Goodrich and Wahbeh (2014) indicated that a one-to-one mindfulness intervention was associated with lower levels of neuroticism at post-treatment than a waiting list control condition in a 50-85 year old moderately stressed population, supporting the theoretical premise for addressing neuroticism with mindfulness-based methods. However, individuals were not selected on the basis of possessing high levels of neuroticism, and this…”

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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Neuroticism (Stress Vulnerability): A Pilot Randomized Study

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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Neuroticism (Stress Vulnerability): A Pilot Randomized Study

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“…Randomized controlled trials (RCT) in clinical and non-clinical populations have demonstrated that standardized MM interventions improve factors relevant to successful BCI use such as anxiety (Bohlmeijer, Prenger, Taal, & Cuijpers, 2010; Hofmann, Sawyer, Witt, & Oh, 2010; Lengacher et al, 2012; Speca, Carlson, Goodey, & Angen, 2000), attention (Lutz et al, 2009), depression and negative affect (Anderson, Lau, Segal, & Bishop, 2007; Grossman et al, 2010; B. S. Oken, Miller, Goodrich, & Wahbeh, 2014; Sephton et al, 2007; Speca, et al, 2000), fatigue (Grossman, et al, 2010), sleep (Andersen et al, 2013; B.…”

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Teaching mindfulness meditation to adults with severe speech and physical impairments: An exploratory study

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Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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People with severe speech and physical impairments may benefit from mindfulness meditation training because it has the potential to enhance their ability to cope with anxiety, depression, and pain and improve their attentional capacity to use brain-computer interface systems. Seven adults with severe speech and physical impairments—defined as speech that is understood less than 25% of the time and/or severely reduced hand function for writing/typing—participated in this exploratory, uncontrolled intervention study. The objectives of this study were to describe the development and implementation of a six-week mindfulness meditation intervention and to identify feasible outcome measures in this population. The weekly intervention was delivered by an instructor in the participant's home, and participants were encouraged to practice daily using audio recordings. The objective adherence to home practice was 10.2 minutes per day. Exploratory outcome measures were an n-back working memory task, the Attention Process Training-II Attention Questionnaire, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, the Perceived Stress Scale, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, and a qualitative feedback survey. There were no statistically significant pre-post results in this small sample, yet administration of the measures proved feasible and qualitative reports were overall positive. Obstacles to teaching mindfulness meditation to persons with SSPI are reported, and solutions are proposed.

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“…The cognitive deficits related to distress proneness are not specific and most consistently included frontal-executive function and perceptual speed [113, 115], not dissimilar to cognitive changes associated with affective disorders such as PTSD and depression [116, 117]. Neuroticism with its negative effects on cognition is a modifiable risk factor [118] with a potentially large impact on population health [119]. …”

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A systems approach to stress, stressors and resilience in humans

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Chamine

Wakeland

2015

Behavioural Brain Research

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The paper focuses on the biology of stress and resilience and their biomarkers in humans from the system science perspective. A stressor pushes the physiological system away from its baseline state towards a lower utility state. The physiological system may return towards the original state in one attractor basin but may be shifted to a state in another, lower utility attractor basin. While some physiological changes induced by stressors may benefit health, there is often a chronic wear and tear cost due to implementing changes to enable the return of the system to its baseline state and maintain itself in the high utility baseline attractor basin following repeated perturbations. This cost, also called allostatic load, is the utility reduction associated with both a change in state and with alterations in the attractor basin that affect system responses following future perturbations. This added cost can increase the time course of the return to baseline or the likelihood of moving into a different attractor basin following a perturbation. Opposite to this is the system’s resilience which influences its ability to return to the high utility attractor basin following a perturbation by increasing the likelihood and/or speed of returning to the baseline state following a stressor. This review paper is a qualitative systematic review; it covers areas most relevant for moving the stress and resilience field forward from a more quantitative and neuroscientific perspective.

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Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Self-Rated Stress-related Measures: Improvements in Neuroticism and Ecological Momentary Assessment of Stress

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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Neuroticism (Stress Vulnerability): A Pilot Randomized Study

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Neuroticism (Stress Vulnerability): A Pilot Randomized Study

Teaching mindfulness meditation to adults with severe speech and physical impairments: An exploratory study

A systems approach to stress, stressors and resilience in humans

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