ArticleMindfulness2020
Effects of mindfulness training on daily stress response in college students: Ecological momentary assessment of a randomized controlled trial.
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- The benefits of mindfulness training for momentary mindfulness and emotion regulation: A randomized controlled trial for adolescents exposed to chronic stressors.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2024Trial
- Momentary effects of life stressors on mindfulness and emotion regulation difficulties among adolescents exposed to chronic stressors.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2024Trial
- Daily self-weighing compared with an active control causes greater negative affective lability in emerging adult women: A randomized trial.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2023Trial
- Evaluating the Effects of Rewards and Schedule Length on Response Rates to Ecological Momentary Assessment Surveys: Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Trial
- The Effectiveness of a Mindfulness Induction as a Buffer Against Stress Among University Students With and Without a History of Self-Injury.Psychological reports · 2023Trial
- Randomized clinical trial of a brief, scalable intervention for mental health sequelae in college students during the COVID-19 pandemic.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Trial
- Digital and In-Person Mindfulness-Based Interventions for University Students' Mental Health: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Daily Stress and Heart Rate Variability Among Mindfulness Meditation Practitioners: mHealth Observational Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Observational
- Exploring within and between associations of momentary mindfulness and emotion regulation and the moderating effects of mental health among adolescents.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026Article
- Comparing the effectiveness of occupational stress training package with mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on job burnout of Tam Kar's employees in order to health promotion.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- Temporal dynamics and long-term effects of a mindfulness-based intervention for young adults with adverse childhood experiences.Mindfulness · 2024Article
- Effects of Online Mindful Somatic Psychoeducation Program on Mental Health During the COVID-19.Psychiatry investigation · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Mental Health and Psychological Quality of Life among University Students: A GRADE-Assessed Systematic Review.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2024Review
- The Effects of Dose, Practice Habits, and Objects of Focus on Digital Meditation Effectiveness and Adherence: Longitudinal Study of 280,000 Digital Meditation Sessions Across 103 Countries.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Emotional change in its "natural habitat": Measuring everyday emotion regulation with passive and active ambulatory assessment methods.Journal of psychotherapy integration · 2023Article
- Trajectory Analysis of Suicidal Ideation in Spanish College Students Using Ecological Momentary Assessment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Prevention and early intervention of depression in young people: an integrated narrative review of affective awareness and Ecological Momentary Assessment.BMC psychology · 2021Review
- Prevalence and predictors of anxiety, depression and stress among university students during the period of the first lockdown in Germany.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2021Article
- Differential Effects of Ethical Education, Physical Hatha Yoga, and Mantra Meditation on Well-Being and Stress in Healthy Participants-An Experimental Single-Case Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveMindfulness training has been shown to reduce rates of depression, anxiety and perceived stress, but its impact on stress and emotion regulation in real-world settings in the college-aged population is unknown. This study examines the effect of an 8-session long mindfulness training on first-year college students' daily experiences of stress and emotion regulation.
methodsFifty-two first-year students were randomized to the mindfulness training or the waitlist-control group during the fall academic semester. Before, during and after the trial, students completed 10-days of ecological momentary assessments (EMA), reporting on family and school or work stress, negative emotion, rumination, and interference by unwanted thoughts and emotions up to four times a day. Multilevel regression analysis compared levels of momentary stress and emotion regulation difficulties, as well as the strength of the moment-level association between stress and emotion regulation, by intervention condition, before, during and after the trial.
resultsControls showed an exacerbation of family stress related negative emotion, rumination and interference, across the fall semester. However, intervention youth showed stable levels of emotion regulation responses to family stress across the semester. Emotion regulation responses to school or work stress did not differ by intervention condition.
conclusionsMindfulness training helps to prevent the depletion of emotion regulation capacity in this sample of relatively healthy first-year college students. EMAs allow the assessment of emotion regulation in the context of naturally occurring stress, and enhances the specificity and external validity of evaluations of psychological interventions.
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