Trial reportHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2019
Psychological mechanisms driving stress resilience in mindfulness training: A randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05083091 (Smartphone Stress Management Training for Irritable Bowel Syndrome), which is not on this map. Cited by 38 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Smartphone Stress Management Training for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
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38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Impact of meditation-only interventions on university students' resilience: A pairwise and network meta-analysis of randomised actively and passively controlled trials.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2026Pooled it
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- A Self-Guided Mobile Mindfulness Intervention Embedded in Daily Routines for Adults With Mild to Moderate Psychological Distress: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mental health · 2026Trial
- Psychological mechanisms of prenatal mindfulness training on antenatal blood pressure reduction: A pilot study.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2025Trial
- Testing the Efficacy of a Brief, Self-Guided Mindfulness Ecological Momentary Intervention on Emotion Regulation and Self-Compassion in Social Anxiety Disorder: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mental health · 2024Trial
- Evaluating Declines in Compliance With Ecological Momentary Assessment in Longitudinal Health Behavior Research: Analyses From a Clinical Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Trial
- Daily mindfulness training reduces negative impact of COVID-19 news exposure on affective well-being.Psychological research · 2022Trial
- Mindfulness interventions improve momentary and trait measures of attentional control: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2021Trial
- Candidate Targets for Resilience Training to Reduce Transdiagnostic Risk for Mental Illness.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Article
- Beyond Chronic Stress: Daily Stress Is Associated With Symptoms in Irritable Bowel Syndrome.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2026Article
- Preventive strategies in neuroimmunology.Neurological research and practice · 2026Review
- Gender Differences in Negative Life Events, Present-Moment Awareness, Problem-Solving, and Perceived Stress Among Rural Adolescents.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- The moderating role of gender in the association between latent psychosocial profiles and myopia severity among adolescents.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Self-compassion and self-concept clarity mediated by resilience: variable-centered and person-centered approaches.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Resilience as a Mediator Between Childhood Trauma and Adult Psychopathology: The Moderating Role of Harm Avoidance in Korean Adults.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- The impact of academic anxiety on smartphone addiction among college students: the mediating role of self-regulatory fatigue and the moderating role of mindfulness.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- How mindfulness-based training improves stress-related health: a selective review of randomized clinical trials comparing psychological mechanisms of action.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Review
- The Mediating Effects of Self-Acceptance and Self-Evaluation on Mindfulness and Benefit -Finding in a Sample of Chinese Systemic Lupus Erythematous Patients.Patient preference and adherence · 2025Article
- The Role of Mindfulness Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Pain.Current pain and headache reports · 2024Review
- An Eight-Week Zen Meditation and Music Programme for Mindfulness and Happiness: Qualitative Content Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveMindfulness interventions have been shown to reduce stress; however, the mechanisms driving stress resilience effects are not known. Mindfulness interventions aim to teach individuals how to: (a) use attention to monitor present moment experiences; with (b) an attitude of acceptance and equanimity. A randomized controlled dismantling trial (RCT) was conducted to test the prediction that the removal of acceptance skills training would eliminate stress-reduction benefits of a mindfulness intervention.
methodThis preregistered RCT randomly assigned stressed community adults to 1 of 3 conditions: (a) Monitor and Accept (MA) mindfulness training, a standard 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) intervention that provided explicit instruction in developing both monitoring and acceptance skills; (b) Monitor Only (MO) mindfulness training, a well-matched 8-week MBSR intervention that taught monitoring skills only; or (c) No Treatment (NT) control. Stress and nonjudgment were measured using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) for 3 days at baseline and 3 days at postintervention.
resultsConsistent with predictions, MA participants increased in nonjudgment and decreased in both stress ratings and the proportion of assessments that they reported experiencing feelings of stress in daily life, relative to both MO and NT participants.
conclusionsThis RCT provides one of the first experimental tests of the mechanisms linking mindfulness interventions with stress resilience. These findings suggest that acceptance skills training may be a necessary active ingredient and support the value of integrating acceptance skills training into stress-reduction interventions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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