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SynthesisApplied psychology. Health and well-being2026

Impact of meditation-only interventions on university students' resilience: A pairwise and network meta-analysis of randomised actively and passively controlled trials.

Robin Jacob, Lorena Cascant Ortolano, Theresa Dicks, Pascal Kemmerer, Jennifer L Reichel, Viktoria Eggert, Thomas Rigotti, Pavel Dietz

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Synthesis in Applied psychology. Health and well-being, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Robin JacobInstitute of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Lorena Cascant OrtolanoDepartmental library, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4839-6457
Theresa DicksInstitute of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0009-0003-1437-4492
Pascal KemmererInstitute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7128-6451
Jennifer L ReichelCorporate Health Management, Human Resources and Legal Affairs, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4018-5583
Viktoria EggertUniversity Cancer Center Mainz (UCT Mainz), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0009-0006-1160-4653
Thomas RigottiLeibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9189-0018
Pavel DietzInstitute of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8390-0594

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

University students are at elevated risk of psychological distress, underscoring the need for interventions that promote resilience. Psychological resilience refers to the capacity to withstand or recover from stress. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the effects of meditation-only interventions on resilience in university students compared with active and passive controls and examined whether effects varied by meditation style, intervention intensity, delivery mode or follow-up length. A literature search of MEDLINE, PsycINFO and Web of Science identified randomised controlled trials involving university students who participated in meditation-only interventions and reported resilience-related outcomes. Pairwise random-effects models, mixed-effects meta-regression and network meta-analysis were used to estimate standardised mean differences (SMDs) at postintervention. Eighty-eight studies with 8728 participants were included. The overall effect was -0.11 (95% CI = -0.63 to 0.41, I

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MeditationResilience, PsychologicalStress, PsychologicalStudentsHumansRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicUniversitiesmindfulnessnetwork meta‐analysispsychological resilienceRCTuniversity students

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PMID42252489
PMCPMC13243352

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