Introduction
The popularity of learning mindfulness through yoga and meditation have increased among young adults. The goal of mindfulness can be described as learning how to live in the moment and be able to observe their thoughts without judgment. Mindfulness specifically is defined as “bringing one’s complete attention to the present experience on a moment-to-moment basis” (Baime, Jha, & Krompinger, 2007, p.109). Attention is used daily when it comes to our lives. Completing many tasks, difficult or easy we are always shifting our attention and focus on different things whether we think about it or not. Putting these two variables together may seem unnecessary but when we put them together we can begin to understand how being in the moment …show more content…
In the experiment the researchers had two independent groups and a control group. The first group consisted of people who had no experience in mindfulness training and had them participate in an 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction course (MBSR). This course taught them meditation skills. The second group contained people who were experienced in mindfulness meditation skills and were sent to a one month concentrated mindfulness retreat. The hypothesis for this experiment is that mindfulness training could improve specific aspects of attention (Jha et al., 2007). To put the data into perspective a series of planned contrasts and ANOVA’s were used. In this study when each group was being compared to each other there was almost no significance each time, expect for when looking at conflict monitoring. The results showed that in the second contrast, the groups were collapsed (MBSR & the control group) and they focused on the performance and compared that with the performance of the retreat group and that had a significant difference. This shows that in the retreat group the amount of conflict monitoring was reduced compared to MBSR and the control …show more content…
This study was a randomized trial and the independent variable was either getting the Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy or not. To test if the results afterwards decreased they used the Child Behavior Checklist, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for children, and Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for children to measure. They hypothesized that the kids who participated in MBCT-C would show greater decline in attention, behavior, and anxiety problems (Lee et al., 2010). For this study they conducted a repeated-measures ANOVA for each dependent variable being measured. What was found with this study was MBCT-C could be a great way to help fix attention and behavior problems, and could even reduce childhood anxiety symptoms (Lee et al., 2010). This study supports the idea that mindfulness can help children with attention and other
The popularity of learning mindfulness through yoga and meditation have increased among young adults. The goal of mindfulness can be described as learning how to live in the moment and be able to observe their thoughts without judgment. Mindfulness specifically is defined as “bringing one’s complete attention to the present experience on a moment-to-moment basis” (Baime, Jha, & Krompinger, 2007, p.109). Attention is used daily when it comes to our lives. Completing many tasks, difficult or easy we are always shifting our attention and focus on different things whether we think about it or not. Putting these two variables together may seem unnecessary but when we put them together we can begin to understand how being in the moment …show more content…
In the experiment the researchers had two independent groups and a control group. The first group consisted of people who had no experience in mindfulness training and had them participate in an 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction course (MBSR). This course taught them meditation skills. The second group contained people who were experienced in mindfulness meditation skills and were sent to a one month concentrated mindfulness retreat. The hypothesis for this experiment is that mindfulness training could improve specific aspects of attention (Jha et al., 2007). To put the data into perspective a series of planned contrasts and ANOVA’s were used. In this study when each group was being compared to each other there was almost no significance each time, expect for when looking at conflict monitoring. The results showed that in the second contrast, the groups were collapsed (MBSR & the control group) and they focused on the performance and compared that with the performance of the retreat group and that had a significant difference. This shows that in the retreat group the amount of conflict monitoring was reduced compared to MBSR and the control …show more content…
This study was a randomized trial and the independent variable was either getting the Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy or not. To test if the results afterwards decreased they used the Child Behavior Checklist, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for children, and Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for children to measure. They hypothesized that the kids who participated in MBCT-C would show greater decline in attention, behavior, and anxiety problems (Lee et al., 2010). For this study they conducted a repeated-measures ANOVA for each dependent variable being measured. What was found with this study was MBCT-C could be a great way to help fix attention and behavior problems, and could even reduce childhood anxiety symptoms (Lee et al., 2010). This study supports the idea that mindfulness can help children with attention and other