Mindfulness for Preventing Psychosocial Risks in the Workplace: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Organizations today are implementing psychological interventions to promote the job performance and wellbeing of their employees. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) can contribute to providing workers with competencies and skills and develop their strengths. MBIs are therefore becoming more and more present in the workplace, sometimes using online intervention programs, which offer a promising direction in prevention and intervention for health. The objective of this study is to analyze the efficacy of MBIs on psychological variables in the workplace. For this purpose, a search for scientific articles published from 2009 to 2019 was made in the Psicodoc, PsycINFO, and Web of Science databases, where a total of 468 articles were found. After filtering with preestablished inclusion criteria, 24 studies were included in the systematic review and meta-analysis. The results of the meta-analysis suggest that intervention in mindfulness positively influences psychological variables related to employee health and wellbeing. However, it is recommended to continue performing new studies to confirm this finding.
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Mindfulness training seems to improve employees' mental health, compassion and empathy, well-being, and performance.
“A mindfulness training seems to improve employees’ mental health, compassion and empathy, well-being, and performance [18,19,20].”
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The Introduction says mindfulness-based interventions can improve mental health and employee performance, and the Conclusions report improved employee wellbeing. The paper does not report improvements in compassion or empathy; a reference title mentions self-compassion, but does not establish that outcome. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Pérez-Fuentes, M. D. C., Molero Jurado, M. D. M., Mercader Rubio, I., Soriano Sánchez, J. G., & Gázquez Linares, J. J.
- Affiliations
- Department of Psychology, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain
- Venue
- Applied Sciences
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2020-03-08
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1851
- ISSN
- 2076-3417 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3010241735
- Cited by
- 30
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3
- FWCI
- 0.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- dx.doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Applied Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Repositorio de Patentes de la Universidad de Almería (Universidad de Almería) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Workplace Health and Well-being
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Keywords
- mindfulness-based interventions, psychosocial risks at work, employee well-being, occupational health, psychological intervention, online intervention, employee performance
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