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A salient belief elicitation examining adolescents' meditation beliefs using the reasoned action approach 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Erbe, Ryan G., Susan E. Middlestadt, David K. Lohrmann, and Jonathon J. Beckmeyer.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명SAGE Publications Inc.
  • 출판년도2020
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Health promotion practice
  • 발행사항21, no. 4 (2020): 633-641.
  • ISBN/ISSN15248399
  • 소개/요약The purpose of this study was to identify adolescents’ consequence, referent, and circumstance beliefs about trying to meditate at least twice in the next week in order to inform subsequent meditation intervention design. A survey based on reasoned action approach (RAA) constructs was developed and pilot-tested. Thereafter, adolescents (N = 129), recruited from a northeastern U.S. high school, responded to open-ended survey questions eliciting beliefs underlying intention to try meditating. Thematic analysis was executed to examine beliefs and frequencies of beliefs. Five types of salient meditation beliefs were identified: advantages (e.g., reduces stress, increases relaxation, improves focus), disadvantages (e.g., slows everything down), supporters and disapprovers (e.g., family and friends), and facilitating circumstances (e.g., more time, fewer distractions). Adolescents recognize meditation as having health benefits but as also taking time. They further viewed meditation as socially acceptable but need sufficient time and a conducive environment to try it. To be effective, interventions designed to promote adolescents’ self-regulation through meditation should address identified salient beliefs.