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Effects of school‐based mindfulness training on emotion processing and well‐being in adolescents: evidence from event‐related potentials 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Sanger, Kevanne Louise,Thierry, Guillaume,Dorjee, Dusana
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Wiley-Blackwell
  • 출판년도2018
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
  • 발행사항Vol.21No.5[2018]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN1363-755X
  • 소개/요약In a non-randomized controlled study, we investigated the efficacy of a school-based mindfulness curriculum delivered by schoolteachers to older secondary school students (16-18 years). We measured changes in emotion processing indexed by P3b event-related potential (ERP) modulations in an affective oddball task using static human faces. ERPs were recorded to happy and sad face oddballs presented in a stimulus stream of frequent faces with neutral expression, before and after 8 weeks of mindfulness training. Whilst the mean amplitude of the P3b, an ERP component typically elicited by infrequent oddballs, decreased between testing sessions in the control group, it remained unchanged in the training group. Significant increases in self-reported well-being and fewer doctor visits for mental health support were also reported in the training group as compared to controls. The observed habituation to emotional stimuli in controls thus contrasted with maintained sensitivity in mindfulness-trained students. These results suggest that in-school mindfulness training for adolescents has scope for increasing awareness of socially relevant emotional stimuli, irrespective of valence, and thus may decrease vulnerability to depression.