First‑year college students’ well‑being: 3‑Month follow‑up of mindfulness intervention and potential mechanisms of change

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12671-022-01872-0" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12671-022-01872-0</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-01872-0" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12671-022-01872-0</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

First‑year college students’ well‑being: 3‑Month follow‑up of mindfulness intervention and potential mechanisms of change

Original language description

Objectives We examined 3-month effects of a mindfulness-based intervention with first-year college students. First, we evaluated the intervention effects on measures of life satisfaction and distress. Second, we examined the potential mediators of these effects, in particular a change in mindfulness states and the use of mindfulness practice after the intervention was completed. Methods The study recruited 109 first-year undergraduates at a large, public university living in the residential halls (M age = 18.2 years, SD = 0.4, 66% females). The sample was randomized to an intervention and control group and 3 months after the end of the intervention both groups completed follow-up. Results We found intervention effects on distress and life satisfaction at the 3-month follow-up, controlling for gender and attendance of therapy before college (distress: Beta =  − 0.177, SE = 0.092, p = 0.055, life satisfaction: Beta = 0.186, SE = 0.075, p = 0.014). Furthermore, we found that the growth in self-reported mindfulness mediated the effects of the intervention at the 3-month follow-up on distress (Beta =  − 0.452, SE = 0.089, p = 0.000), but not on life satisfaction (Beta = 0.081, SE = 0.096, p = 0.394). The use of mindfulness practices after the intervention (between post-test and follow-up) mediated the intervention effects on both distress and life satisfaction at follow-up (distress: Beta =  − 0.231, SE = 0.097, p = 0.018, life satisfaction: Beta = 0.219, SE = 0.074, p = 0.003). Conclusions These findings support the notion that self-reported mindfulness can be increased and this shift may mediate the longer term outcomes of mindfulness interventions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Mindfulness

ISSN

1868-8527

e-ISSN

1868-8535

Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

x

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

000777349600002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85127429365