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Effect of mindfulness training on attention, emotion-regulation and risk-taking in adolescence.
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- 자료유형학위논문
- 저자명Droutman, Vitaliya
- 학회/출판사/기관명University of Southern California Psychology
- 출판년도2015
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- 학술지명/학위논문주기
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- 소개/요약Mindfulness training has the potential for improving attention and emotion-regulation, as well as reducing risk taking - all areas of critical importance during adolescence. Although significant evidence exists for the above effects and their neural underpinning in adults, work with adolescents is critically lacking. The goal of this project is to help fill this gap by examining the effect of mindfulness training for adolescents on attention, emotion-regulation and risk-taking and their neural correlates._x000D_ The research program consists of four studies. Studies 1 and 2 evaluate adolescents' performance on attention, emotion-regulation and risk taking tasks prior to and immediately following an 8-weeks mindfulness training, and after a follow up period of eight to ten weeks. Several self-report measures that assess differences in emotion regulation, risk-taking and the trait of mindfulness are also administered. Study 1 evaluates a 'community sample', children ages 11 through 18, attending conventional middle or high schools, with half participating in mindfulness training as an after school program offered in the community. Study 2 evaluates teens 'at risk for negative consequences', children who did not succeed at a conventional school and are attending a continuation high school. This is a randomized controlled study of a mindfulness program offered as part of the school curriculum. Study 3 combines subjects from Study 1 and Study 2 to evaluate whether the findings can be generalized while controlling for participant source and to examine whether there is a difference in the effects on high school aged participants of Study 1 and Study 2. Study 4 is an imaging pilot study that begins evaluation of the neural substrates that underlie the effect of mindfulness training on attention, self-regulation and risk taking during adolescence._x000D_
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