Mindfulness Skills Training: A Pilot Study of Changes in Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, and Self-Perception of Aging in Older Participants

From State-to-Trait Meditation: Reconfiguration of Central Executive and Default Mode Networks

“…Undeniably, meditation is becoming increasingly well regarded for its therapeutic promise (Buchholz, 2015; Creswell, 2015; Gu et al, 2015; Simon and Engström, 2015) and meditation methods have been beneficial in the treatment of psychological disorders such as schizophrenia (Chien and Thompson, 2014), depression (Teasdale et al, 2000; Ma and Teasdale, 2004; Eisendrath et al, 2008; Kuyken et al, 2008; Yang et al, 2016), anxiety (Baer, 2003; Grossman et al, 2004; Ludwig and Kabat-Zinn, 2008; Shen et al, 2014), addiction (Bowen et al, 2014), alcoholism (Witkiewitz et al, 2005; Garland et al, 2010), smoking (Tang et al, 2013), mild cognitive impairment (MCI; Wells et al, 2013), and ADHD (Zylowska et al, 2008; Bueno et al, 2015; Janssen et al, 2015). Preliminary findings have suggested that the effects of meditation include better emotion regulation (Lutz et al, 2014; Turner, 2014; Prakash et al, 2015), self-regulation (Tang et al, 2014), awareness and self-perception (Hölzel et al, 2011b), memory and cognition (Zeidan et al, 2010), attention (Moore et al, 2012), working memory (Mrazek et al, 2013; Banks et al, 2015), as well as gray and white matter differences in experienced meditators (EMs; Luders et al, 2009; Hölzel et al, 2011a; Fox et al, 2014). Functional imaging studies on meditation practice have examined two distinct effects of meditation.…”

Examination of the relationship between basketball referee's mental well-being and emotional regulation levels

“…On the other hand, Karaçam et al [ 37 ] found that age and experience did not affect emotion regulation, unlike the study conducted on different branch referees. When we look at the studies outside the referee group in the literature, it was seen that results were obtained in parallel with the study [ 43 ] and contrary to the study [ 44 , 45 ]. These different results in the literature are thought to be due to the unique characteristics of the referee group studied and other groups.…”

Adapting Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities

“…Last, we noted that several modifications of MBSR and other MBIs are being developed; hence, our MBI could arguably further muddy the waters. However, our approach to developing this program began by grounding it in an empirically supported MBI (MBSR), modifying it based on prior literature ( Ernst et al, 2008 ; Mallya & Fiocco, 2016 ; Moss et al, 2015 ; Paller et al, 2015 ; Turner, 2014 ), and piloting the program. We are currently testing this MBI in a larger sample of LTCF residents and comparing it against an active control condition.…”

“…For instance, though most MBIs with older adults span the typical (i.e., 8 week) length of treatment, others range from 2 weeks ( Black et al, 2015 ) to 8 months ( Keller et al, 2014 ). Although modified MBIs for older adults appear to be adaptations founded upon the MBSR curriculum (see Chouinard et al, 2019 ; Colgan et al, 2019 ; Elliot et al, 2019 ; Isbel et al, 2019 ; Morone et al, 2008 ), some MBIs are completely new attempts to disseminate mindfulness (see Franco et al, 2017 ; Keller et al, 2014 ; Turner, 2014 ; Whitmoyer et al, 2020 ) that are not grounded in traditional methodology.…”