Beyond Individual Stress Reduction - The Mindful Students Program Benefits University Students and Their Environment
Elisabeth Sophie Blanke,
Susanne Krämer,
Laura S. Loy
et al.
Abstract:Objectives: While mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) for university students usually aim at stress prevention and reduction, MBIs have the potential to also have societal benefits. In the present study, we introduce an MBI, the Mindful Students Program (MSP), which aims at developing an ethical perspective of interdependence between the individual and its social and ecological environment. We hypothesized that the MSP fosters not only mindfulness and individual stress reduction, but also prosociality and p… Show more
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