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Short-Term Meditation Training Fosters Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation: A Pilot Study

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Fazia, Teresa, Bubbico, Francesco, Iliakis, Ioannis, Salvato, Gerardo, Berzuini, Giovanni, Bruno, Salvatore, Bernardinelli, Luisa·2020·Frontiers in Psychology

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The practice of meditation has been historically linked to beneficial effects, not only in terms of spirituality but also in terms of well-being, general improvement of psychophysiological conditions and quality of life. The present study aims to assess the beneficial effects of a short-term intervention (a combination of 12 practical 1-hour sessions of meditation, called Integral Meditation, and lectures on neuroscience of meditation) on psychological indicators of well-being in subjects from general population. We used a one-group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design, in which all participants (n=41, 17 men and 24 women, with a mean age of 41.1 years) underwent the same intervention. Out of these, 24 had already experienced meditation practice, but only 12 in a continuative way. Effects were assessed by the standardized Italian version of three self-report questionnaires: Core Outcome in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM), Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) and Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ). The questionnaires were filled in at baseline and immediately after the last meditation session. Linear mixed effect models were used to evaluate pre-post treatment changes on each outcome. Participants showed a general, close to a statistically significant threshold, improvement in the total score of CORE-OM and its different domains. The total score of FFMQ (β=0.154, p=0.012) indicates a statistically significant increase in the level of mindfulness as well as in the domains acting with awareness (β=0.212, p=0.024), and non-judging of inner experiences (β=0.384, p<0.0001). Lastly, we observed a statistically significant improvement in the cognitive reappraisal ERQ domain (β=0.541, p=0.0003). Despite some limitations (i.e., small sample size, lack of a randomised control group and sole use of “soft” measurements, such as self-report questionnaires), this study offers promising results regarding the within-subject effectiveness of our intervention that includes a meditation practice on psychological indicators, thus providing interesting preliminary results.

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  • Mindfulness-based interventions are linked to increasing use of cognitive reappraisal and decreasing use of expressive suppression.

    “some studies found mindfulness-based interventions to be linked to increasing use of cognitive reappraisal and decreasing use of expressive suppression17,18.”

    From Mindfulness-based online intervention increases well-being and decreases stress after Covid-19 lockdown (2022) · cites this paper as [17]

    The Discussion (page not available in our copy) reports a statistically significant increase in cognitive reappraisal after the intervention. It also reports a decrease in mean expressive suppression, but that change was not statistically significant (p = 0.145); the claim does not convey that uncertainty. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • The result supports the hypothesis of overlap between mindfulness and emotion regulation theoretical constructs.

    “This result is in line with previous literature showing analogous results17,18 and supports thus the hypothesis of overlap between “mindfulness” and “emotion regulation” theoretical constructs14”

    From Mindfulness-based online intervention increases well-being and decreases stress after Covid-19 lockdown (2022) · cites this paper as [17]

    The Discussion (page unavailable) says self-awareness and emotion regulation are closely related and suggests that meditation may affect both. The Results report improvements in mindfulness and cognitive reappraisal, but the paper does not establish overlap between the two theoretical constructs; that is a broader interpretation of its findings. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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Authors
Fazia, T., Bubbico, F., Iliakis, I., Salvato, G., Berzuini, G., Bruno, S., & Bernardinelli, L.
Affiliations
University of Pavia (IT)
Corresponding author
Fazia, Teresa
Venue
Frontiers in Psychology
Published
2020-10-26
Volume
11
Pages
558803-558803
ISSN
1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3097328735
Cited by
22
References
67
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1
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1.20
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journal article
Language
en
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Keywords
meditation training, mindfulness, emotion regulation, neuroscience of meditation, well-being, cognitive reappraisal, brief intervention, awareness

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