Examining the protective effects of mindfulness training on working memory capacity and affective experience.

By Amishi P. Jha, Elizabeth A. Stanley, Anastasia Kiyonaga, L. Wong, L. Gelfand. Emotion, 2010

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Mindfulness Interventions. (2017, positive): “Likewise, mindfulness training programs may be effective in buffering the negative effects of stress in soldiers during high-stress periods (Jha et al. 2010, Johnson et al. 2014).”
The Mediating Effects of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion on Trait Anxiety (2014, background): “The standard 8-week MBSR program yields positive changes in psychological well-being across age groups as evidenced by decreases in stress, anxiety, depression, mood disturbance, self-criticism, competitive comparisons, and self-judgment, coupled with improvements in emotional processing and increas”
Practice Is Protective: Mindfulness Training Promotes Cognitive Resilience in High-Stress Cohorts (2017, methodology): “Participants were classified as high practice or low practice using the same strategy as Jha et al. (2010), which described group differences in measures of working memory capacity and affect in the same group of participants investigated herein.”
Mindfulness at Work: A New Approach to Improving Individual and Organizational Performance (2015, result): “Such a finding has been repeatedly evidenced by multiple studies, including that of Jha et al. (2010), which in addition to their aforementioned findings also found that working memory capacity increased for the experimental groups that received mindfulness training.”
Mindfulness: A Dialogue between Buddhism and Clinical Psychology (2010, background): “There is evidence that mindfulness training is associated with improvements in working memory in high stress situations (Jha et al. 2010) and that mindfulness increases the tendency to remember specific rather than general autobiographical events (Heeren et al. 2009).”
A Comparison of Formal and Informal Mindfulness Programs for Stress Reduction in University Students (2015, background): “Kabat-Zinn (1990) states that formal meditation practice is essential for cultivating mindfulness, and meditation may allow individuals the opportunity to experience being mindful at times of low stress so that it becomes easier to be mindful when stress is elevated (Miller et al.”
The science of mind wandering: empirically navigating the stream of consciousness. (2015, background): “Mindfulness programs have reduced mind wandering and enhanced people’s performance on several other tasks, including vigilance task ( Jha et al. 2010).”
Mindfulness-Based Interventions: An Emerging Phenomenon (2011, background): “For example, Stanley and Jha (2010) studied the protective effects of mindfulness training on working memory capacity and affective experience in military service members preparing for deployment.”
Training attentional control and working memory - Is younger, better? (2012, methodology): “Wass et al. / Developmental Review xxx (2012) xxx–xxx reported significant improvements in behaviour. Both of these studies also looked at the effect of training on academic performance: Kerns et al. (1999) reported improved maths performance in an ADHD group following dimensional card sorting train”
Mindfulness training and reductions in teacher stress and burnout: Results from two randomized, waitlist-control field trials. (2013, background): “Further investigation into the findings reported here using (a) a wide array of behavioral measures of attention and emotion regulation (Jha et al., 2010), (b) biological measures of cortisol that are easier to collect in the field (e.g., hair) as well as other measures such as heart rate…”
Traditional and Contemporary Mindfulness: Finding the Middle Path in the Tangle of Concerns (2015, methodology): “Recent developments in the context of military training, such as Mindfulness-Based Mind Fit Training (MMFT; Jha et al. 2010), can also be included among the emerging forms of MBIs.”