Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences · University of Oregon · +4 more institutions
Abstract
Recent studies suggest that months to years of intensive and systematic meditation training can improve attention. However, the lengthy training required has made it difficult to use random assignment of participants to conditions to confirm these findings. This article shows that a group randomly assigned to 5 days of meditation practice with the integrative body-mind training method shows significantly better attention and control of stress than a similarly chosen control group given relaxation training. The training method comes from traditional Chinese medicine and incorporates aspects of other meditation and mindfulness training. Compared with the control group, the experimental group of 40 undergraduate…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 43.54
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 53
Authors
11- YTYi‐Yuan Tang
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, University of Oregon, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- YMYinghua Ma
Dalian University of Technology
- JWJunhong Wang
Dalian University of Technology
- YFYaxin Fan
Dalian University of Technology
- SFShigang Feng
Dalian University of Technology
Topics & keywords
- Meditation
- Mindfulness
- Relaxation (psychology)
- Mood
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Clinical psychology
- Psychology