The Role of Perceived Stress and Health Beliefs on College Students' Intentions to Practice Mindfulness Meditation

Rizer, Carol; Fagan, Mary Helen; Kilmon, Carol A.; Rath, Linda L.

doi:10.1080/19325037.2015.1111176

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“…15 The review of literature by Gerber et al (2009) noted the 16 studies supported the buffering effect of physical exercise on stress where six studies were based on adolescents. In This study showed the higher stress levels among daily meditation practicing adolescents compared to occasional and non-meditation practicing adolescents.Though contrary results obtained in a study by Rizer et al (2016) showing reduced stress among meditation practicing students. 17 Bonadonna (2003) conducted an 8-week study on medical and premedical students to find out regular meditation would make the students less anxious and less stressed during an examination period.…”

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Lifestyle Practices and Stress among School Adolescents in Delhi

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Kishore

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2020

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Background: Stress is now seen as a "lifestyle crisis" and affects any and every individual regardless of the stage of life they are in. It needs to be managed through life style modification. Objectives: To determinegender differences among lifestyle practices,the relationships among perceived stress and different lifestyle practices, and effective life style practices (coping strategies) to manage stress. Methodology: It is school based cross-sectional study, conducted among adolescents of two conveniently selected schools of Delhi from March 2012 to Jan 2013. A pretested self-administered questionnaire was used for the data collection. Statistical analysis was done using percentage, chi-square test, ANOVA test. Results: Out of 397 students participated in the study 15.4% and 16.6% students indulged in daily consumption of carbonated drinks and tea/ coffee respectively. Marginally higher perceived stress score obtained among students associated with daily consumption of beverages. 28.4%, 3% and 4.5% students engaged in daily physical exercise, meditation and yoga respectively. Lower perceived stress scores obtained among students with daily practice of physical exercise and yoga. Conclusion: Consumption of beverages is high among adolescent males. Insufficient physical activity is high among adolescents especially females. Physical exercise and yoga practices found to be associated with lower stress among adolescents.

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Lifestyle Practices and Stress among School Adolescents in Delhi

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Kishore

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2020

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“…Indeed, quantitative studies have found that various mental health problems are associated with meditation program attrition or perceived barriers to meditation (Banerjee et al 2018;Crane and Williams 2010;Delmonte 1980Delmonte , 1984Delmonte , 1988Whitford and Warren 2019;Williams et al 2012;Williams et al 1976). Other studies have found that intention or practice itself is not associated with severity of problems (Bistricky et al 2018;Rizer et al 2016). In other words, there are two contradicting hypotheses as to whether poor mental health may spur or inhibit taking up a mental health-ameliorating behavior.…”

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“…There have been some studies investigating the RAA with regard to stress-reduction technique uptake. Seven evaluations found outcome expectations to be associated with uptake, but three did not (Beattie et al 2019;Bistricky et al 2018;Erbe et al 2018Erbe et al , 2019Lederer and Middlestadt 2014;Rizer et al 2016). Five evaluations of perceived norms found associations with uptake while two did not, with some evidence suggesting that descriptive norms could be more influential than injunctive norms (Beattie et al 2019;Bistricky et al 2018;Erbe et al 2018Erbe et al , 2019Lederer and Middlestadt 2014;Rizer et al 2016).…”

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Social Cognitions and Mental Health as Predictors of Adolescents’ Mindfulness Practice

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Objectives While practicing mindfulness can potentially mitigate and prevent mental health problems among adolescents, mindfulness programs delivered in schools do not uniformly lead to uptake of mindfulness practice. This low adherence threatens the internal validity of mindfulness trials and may hinder the alleviation of mental health problems in youth who fail to take up potentially effective techniques. Consequently, it is vital to investigate what predicts uptake of independent mindfulness practice in such interventions. Methods Using path analyses, this study investigates whether social cognitions from the Reasoned Action Approach and initial mental health predict mindfulness practice among 1646 adolescent recipients of the school-based Healthy Learning Mind mindfulness intervention. Results In line with the Reasoned Action Approach, descriptive and injunctive norms, and positive and negative outcome expectations predicted intention to practice mindfulness (R 2 = .37, p < .001), which in turn predicted different measures of mindfulness practice itself (R 2 = .09-.17, p < .001). Neither perceived behavioral control nor mental health variables (depressive symptoms, internalization and externalization of difficulties, and resilience: R 2 = .01, p > .05) were associated with mindfulness practice after the intervention. Conclusion Social norms and outcome expectations are potential intervention targets to increase mindfulness practice motivation and behavior among adolescents.

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“…perceived stress and intention to practice mindfulness meditation (Rizer et al, 2016). Both studies examined university level college students.…”

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“…Studies on stress in university students also include identifying stressors for African American college students, finding relationships between stress, fatigue, and cognitive functioning, as well as students' expectations and stress levels (KREIG, 2013;LINDSEY et al, 2011;PALMER et al, 2014). One recently published study explored factors that may affect university students' decisions to pursue mindfulness meditation practices to reduce stress and health risks (Rizer, Fagan, Kilmon, & Rath, 2016). Another study identified barriers and opportunities involved in promoting the use of meditation in university students to reduce stress (Gryffin et al, 2014).…”

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Stress and the beliefs of meditation among community college students

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The purpose of this study was to assess stress levels in community college students and their beliefs of meditation. Community college students tend to report high levels of stress due to demographic factors, such low economic status, need to work at least part time, and need for remedial classes. Many of these demographic factors are particularly found in students above the age of 24, which are considered nontraditional students. Understanding stress levels and beliefs of meditation among students is necessary to determine if a meditation program such as Transcendental Meditation (TM) may work within a community college setting to reduce stress.The convenience sample consisted of 221 community college students enrolled in English composition courses at one large community college located on the east coast of the United States. The instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire, which included closed-and open-ended questions. Students completed the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-14) and the Meditation Beliefs Questionnaire, which has two subscales, knowledge and perceptions of meditation. The study utilized descriptive statistics, analysis of variance procedures, and independent samples t-tests to determine differences between stress levels and beliefs of meditation, as well as differences in gender and age segment (i.e., traditional vs. nontraditional).While this study found no statistically significant differences among students' beliefs of meditation and stress levels by gender or by age segment, findings showed statistically significant results for students who reported high versus moderate stress levels regarding beliefs of meditation. Specifically, the high stress group had significantly more knowledge than the moderate stress group about the actual benefits of meditation. One practical implication of the research could be to develop an educational program introducing students to TM, which may reduce stress and improve academic performance. Ultimately, such a program may transform 4 the lives of community college students by improving graduation rates and by encouraging lifelong practices that have an impact on students' health and wellbeing.

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The Role of Perceived Stress and Health Beliefs on College Students' Intentions to Practice Mindfulness Meditation

Cited by 19 publications

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Lifestyle Practices and Stress among School Adolescents in Delhi

Lifestyle Practices and Stress among School Adolescents in Delhi

Social Cognitions and Mental Health as Predictors of Adolescents’ Mindfulness Practice

Stress and the beliefs of meditation among community college students

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