Relationships Between Mindfulness Facets and Mental and Physical 					Health in Meditating and Nonmeditating University Students

Karing, Constance; Oeltjen, Lara; Beelmann, Andreas

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“…Baer [36] argued that people without meditation experiences might observe the present judgmentally and impulsively, whereas practitioners might observe with openness and acceptance, in this study we found a positive link between observing and depressive symptoms among practitioners with a regular meditation practice (See [46] and [37] for similar findings). In addition, our SEM findings revealed that observing was not related to nonjudging of inner experience at all (see Fig 1).…”

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“…However, a study reported that observing was related to greater rumination and lower attentional control, and that the indirect links between observing and mental/physical health complaints via greater body awareness and nonattachment were significant among samples with or without meditation experience [37]. As such, the association between observing and well-being among meditators and non-meditators remain inconsistent and unclear.…”

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Mindfulness facets and psychological well-being among meditators: Serenity as a mediating process

Cheung,

Wang,

Lau

2023

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Guided by the theoretical processes of mindfulness and psychological well-being, this study examined serenity as a mediator between mindfulness facets and psychological well-being, as indexed by depressive symptoms and life satisfaction. Participants were 133 mindfulness practitioners who took part in a 3-day transnational meditation event in Hong Kong. Upon informed consent, participants completed a self-report questionnaire. The findings from structural equation modeling showed that serenity mediated the relation between two facets of mindfulness, including describing and nonreacting to inner experience, and life satisfaction. Serenity also mediated the relation between the mindfulness facet of describing and depressive symptoms. Direct associations were indicated between two mindfulness facets, including observing and nonjudging of inner experience, and depressive symptoms. Taken together, the findings revealed mindfulness facets as major correlates of serenity and psychological outcomes among Chinese meditation practitioners. To foster psychological well-being, researchers, educators, and practitioners should pay attention to role of serenity, describing, and nonreacting to inner experience in mental health.

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Mindfulness facets and psychological well-being among meditators: Serenity as a mediating process

Cheung,

Wang,

Lau

2023

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“…The EffectLiteR approach has been successfully applied to analyze average and conditional effects in various substantive examples especially from clinical psychology and educational science. For example, it has been used to estimate the effects of an autonomy-supportive intervention for teaching physics lessons in high school (Flunger, Mayer, & Umbach, 2018; Mayer, Umbach, Flunger, & Kelava, 2017), for analyzing the effects of inpatient psychotherapy on attachment characteristics (Kirchmann et al, 2011), for examining early transition to secondary school compared to late transition (Mayer, Nagengast, Fletcher, & Steyer, 2014), for evaluating a stress prevention program with teacher students (Karing & Beelmann, 2016), and for looking at differential effects of reading trainings on reading processes (Müller et al, 2015). Most of these examples include either latent covariates or latent outcome variables in the statistical model.…”

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Causal Effects Based on Latent Variable Models

Mayer

2019

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Abstract. Building on the stochastic theory of causal effects and latent state-trait theory, this article shows how a comprehensive analysis of the effects of interventions can be conducted based on latent variable models. The proposed approach offers new ways to evaluate the differential effects of interventions for substantive researchers in experimental and observational studies while allowing for complex measurement models. The key definitions and assumptions of the stochastic theory of causal effects are first introduced and then four statistical models that can be used to estimate various types of causal effects with latent state-trait models are developed and illustrated: The multistate effect model with and without method factors, the true-change effect model, and the multitrait effect model. All effect models with latent variables are implemented based on multigroup structural equation modeling with the EffectLiteR approach. Particular emphasis is placed on the development of models with interactions that allow for interindividual differences in treatment effects based on latent variables. Open source software code is provided for all models.

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“…Although previous studies have shown that mindfulness is related to body awareness and non-attachment, and both seem to be mediators in the relationship between mindfulness and mental health ( Burzler et al, 2019 ; Karing et al, 2021 ), only a few studies have investigated the effect of mindfulness training on these constructs ( Beshai et al, 2020 ; Karing and Beelmann, 2021 ). Non-attachment is described as a flexible, balanced way of relating to one’s experiences and not cling to or avoiding such experiences ( Sahdra et al, 2015 ).…”

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Long-term effects of combined mindfulness intervention and app intervention compared to single interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a randomized controlled trial

Karing

2024

Front. Psychol.

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ObjectivesThe study examines the short-, middle-, and long-term effects of a combined intervention (face-to-face mindfulness intervention plus the mindfulness app 7Mind), compared to single interventions (face-to-face mindfulness intervention alone and an intervention via app 7Mind alone). The subgroups were compared with an active control group on mindfulness, mindful characteristics, mental health, emotion regulation, and attentional abilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the study explores whether students’ engagement with the app and their formal mindfulness practice at home improves intervention outcomes.MethodsThe study employs a randomized controlled trial approach involving three intervention groups and an active control group, with two follow-ups conducted over 12 months. The study included 177 university students who were randomly assigned to a mindfulness group (n = 42), a mindfulness app group (7Mind app, n = 44), a mindfulness + app group (n = 45), and an active control group (n = 46). The duration of the interventions was 4 weeks. The outcome variables were assessed at pre- and post-intervention, at 4 and 12 months post-intervention.ResultsAt post-intervention and during both follow-ups, students in the combined mindfulness intervention did not demonstrate better outcomes compared to students in the single interventions or the active control group across all measures. Additionally, no statistically significant difference was observed between all interventions and the active control groups on any of the measures. However, it is noteworthy that all intervention groups and the active control group exhibited improvement in mindfulness, body awareness, emotion regulation, stress, and attentional abilities over the short, medium, and long term. Moreover, higher app usage in the app groups was significantly associated with increased body awareness. However, greater app use was also correlated with higher stress.ConclusionThe results suggest that the mindfulness intervention and the mindfulness app were similar to the active control condition (communication training) on the investigated variables in the short, medium, and long term. Furthermore, an increased use of a mindfulness app can negatively affect stress.

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Relationships Between Mindfulness Facets and Mental and Physical Health in Meditating and Nonmeditating University Students

Cited by 4 publications

References 53 publications

Mindfulness facets and psychological well-being among meditators: Serenity as a mediating process

Mindfulness facets and psychological well-being among meditators: Serenity as a mediating process

Causal Effects Based on Latent Variable Models

Long-term effects of combined mindfulness intervention and app intervention compared to single interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a randomized controlled trial

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