Examining the Links Between Positive Mental Health and Mindful Parenting During COVID-19 Pandemic in a Sample of Portuguese New Mothers: The Mediating Role of Parenting Stress
ConclusionsOur results suggest the relevance of positive dimensions of maternal mental health during early parenting. These appear to contribute to parenting stress, especially under stressful perceived circumstances such as those related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and to maternal mindful parenting skills. It seems important to assess and intervene early in women ’s positive mental health and parenting stress, even in the absence of psychopathology, so that new mothers are more likely to adopt adaptive parenting approaches, such as mindful parenting.PreregistrationThis study is not preregistered. (Source: Mindfulness)
Source: Mindfulness - December 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Beyond Hub-and-Spoke Adaptation: Religiously and Culturally Responsive Implementation of Mindfulness for Global Public Health
AbstractMindfulness has considerable potential to benefit global public health. The recently published article by Doug Oman,Mindfulness for global public health: Critical analysis and agenda, offers a comprehensive analysis of this potential and presents a set of axes for examining the correspondence between the priorities and capacities that have been respectively established in the fields of mindfulness and global public health. This commentary addresses the importance of religiously and culturally responsive, multi-level, and multi-sector interventions for equitable and effective application of mindfulness globally. We ...
Source: Mindfulness - December 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Examining the Links Between Positive Mental Health and Mindful Parenting During COVID-19 Pandemic in a Sample of Portuguese New Mothers: The Mediating Role of Parenting Stress
ConclusionsOur results suggest the relevance of positive dimensions of maternal mental health during early parenting. These appear to contribute to parenting stress, especially under stressful perceived circumstances such as those related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and to maternal mindful parenting skills. It seems important to assess and intervene early in women ’s positive mental health and parenting stress, even in the absence of psychopathology, so that new mothers are more likely to adopt adaptive parenting approaches, such as mindful parenting.PreregistrationThis study is not preregistered. (Source: Mindfulness)
Source: Mindfulness - December 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Mindful Self-Care Scale-Standard
ConclusionsOverall, the Polish version of the MSCS-Standard appears to have satisfactory psychometric properties.PreregistrationThis study is not preregistered. (Source: Mindfulness)
Source: Mindfulness - December 8, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Effects of a Self-Guided Online Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Program (Mind-OP) in Reducing Negative Automatic Thoughts About Self: Randomized Active Controlled Trial
ConclusionsResults suggest brief, self-guided mindfulness-focused interventions demonstrate promising effects in reducing NATS, which has important implications given their downstream consequences.PreregistrationThe hypotheses of the current study were not preregistered. The trial on whose data the current study builds was preregistered on AsPredicted (#18806) on 2019 –01-22. (Source: Mindfulness)
Source: Mindfulness - December 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Hindering or Helping? User Preferences for Features of Recorded Mindfulness Training
ConclusionsThe study results identified which qualities of recorded mindfulness instructions are least preferred and may present obstacles to initiating or continuing the practice. Therefore, this study may help create more optimal instructions and improve the design of apps and platforms offering mindfulness practice recordings, enhancing the quality and accessibility of practice for a broader audience.PreregistrationThis study is not preregistered. (Source: Mindfulness)
Source: Mindfulness - December 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Promotion of Psychological Well-Being and Life Satisfaction in Pre-Adolescents Through Mindfulness Amidst COVID-19
ConclusionsThese findings support the perspective that MBPs can serve as a broad preventive strategy, effectively promoting pre-adolescents ’ psychological health and life satisfaction during challenging times.PreregistrationThis study is not preregistered. (Source: Mindfulness)
Source: Mindfulness - December 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Hindering or Helping? User Preferences for Features of Recorded Mindfulness Training
ConclusionsThe study results identified which qualities of recorded mindfulness instructions are least preferred and may present obstacles to initiating or continuing the practice. Therefore, this study may help create more optimal instructions and improve the design of apps and platforms offering mindfulness practice recordings, enhancing the quality and accessibility of practice for a broader audience.PreregistrationThis study is not preregistered. (Source: Mindfulness)
Source: Mindfulness - December 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Promotion of Psychological Well-Being and Life Satisfaction in Pre-Adolescents Through Mindfulness Amidst COVID-19
ConclusionsThese findings support the perspective that MBPs can serve as a broad preventive strategy, effectively promoting pre-adolescents ’ psychological health and life satisfaction during challenging times.PreregistrationThis study is not preregistered. (Source: Mindfulness)
Source: Mindfulness - December 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Roles of Self-Compassion and Self-Coldness in the Relationships Between Inferiority and Stress and Anxiety Among Gifted Adolescents
ConclusionsThe findings not only emphasize that feeling inferior is associated with poorer mental health in gifted adolescents, but they also show that how gifted adolescents react to their feelings of inferiority, whether with self-compassion or self-coldness, plays an important role in the relationship between inferiority and mental health. By distinguishing between self-coldness and self-compassion, the results of this study can assist parents, researchers, and practitioners in improving their approach to addressing mental health issues among gifted adolescents.PreregistrationThis study is not preregistered. (Source: Mindfulness)
Source: Mindfulness - November 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Making Mindfulness Meditation a Healthy Habit
ConclusionsMindfulness meditation can be viewed as a health behavior, and understanding mindfulness practice through this lens can help bridge the challenges associated with developing and sustaining mindfulness practice. (Source: Mindfulness)
Source: Mindfulness - November 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research