A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness meditation versus relaxation training: Effects on distress, positive states of mind, rumination, and distraction

By Shamini Jain, S. Shapiro, Summer Swanick, S. Roesch, P. Mills, I. Bell, G. Schwartz. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, General Health Professions

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Mindfulness, Work Climate, and Psychological Need Satisfaction in Employee Well-being (2015, background): “…trainees, as well as enhancing their well-being, empathy, and emotional stability and decreasing their burnout, anxiety, and depression (e.g., Cohen-Katz et al. 2005; Jain et al. 2007; Krasner et al. 2009; Rosenzweig et al. 2003; see for reviews, Escuriex and Labbe 2011; Shapiro and Carlson 2009).”
Health theory of coping (2020, background): “Relaxation training has been linked to decreased distress (Jain et al., 2007), state anxiety, perceived stress and salivary cortisol (Pawlow & Jones, 2005); increased positive mood states (Jain et al., 2007); and improved salivary immunoglobulin A levels (Pawlow & Jones, 2005).”
Mindfulness as a cognitive–emotional segmentation strategy: An intervention promoting work–life balance (2014, background): “Again, mindfulness was explicitly described as a way to minimize difficulties of separating work from private life, supported with information about the positive impact of mindfulness on coping with negative experiences (e.g., Frewen et al., 2008; Jain et al., 2007; Ortner et al., 2007).”
How long does a mindfulness-based stress reduction program need to be? A review of class contact hours and effect sizes for psychological distress. (2009, background): “This puzzling finding could be related to two studies (Jain et al., 2007; Tacón, Caldera, & Ronaghan, 2004) whose mean effect sizes fell more than two standard deviations above the mean for all studies and therefore might be considered outliers.”
Mindfulness Interventions. (2017, positive): “…processes such as acceptance and emotion regulation skills (H¨olzel et al. 2011b, Lindsay & Creswell 2015), exposure (Baer 2003), reducing ruminative thoughts (Jain et al. 2007), or changing aspects of one’s self-concept (e.g., quieting the egoic self) (Carlson 2013, Golubickis et al. 2016).”
A low-dose mindfulness intervention and recovery from work: effects on psychological detachment, sleep quality, and sleep duration (2015, background): “In fact, mindfulness has been shown to enhance adaptive forms of emotion regulation (Arch & Craske, 2006; Erisman & Roemer, 2010; Glomb et al., 2011; H€ulsheger et al., 2013) and decrease rumination (Glomb et al., 2011; Jain et al., 2007; Shapiro, Brown, & Biegel, 2007).”
Customer Mistreatment, Employee Health, and Job Performance (2017, background): “Mindfulness-based stress reduction teaches individuals to pay attention to the present moment in a nonjudgmental way (MacKenzie, Poulin, & Seidman-Carlson, 2006) and is related to reduced rumination (Jain et al., 2007).”
Mindfulness-based stress reduction for healthy individuals: A meta-analysis. (2015, background): “[38] Full time health students (104) 25 80.”
Mechanisms of mindfulness: Rumination and self-compassion (2017, methodology): “, 2010) and depressive symptoms as measured by BSI in a student sample (Jain et al., 2007).”
The Relationship among Young Adult College Students’ Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Demographics, Life Satisfaction, and Coping Styles (2012, background): “Most of these interventions are mainly focused on training students to use adaptive coping skills through social support groups (Oppenheimer, 1984), physical exercise training (Steptoe et al., 1997), and mindfulness meditation training (Beddoe & Murphy, 2004; Jain et al., 2007).”
Mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for psychological health and well-being in nonclinical samples: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2020, positive): “…of their training and compressed content accordingly (e.g., Bartlett, Lovell, Otahal, & Sanderson, 2017; Bergen-Cico, Possemato, & Cheon, 2013; Jain et al., 2007; Josefsson, Lindwall, & Broberg, 2012; Luberto et al., 2017; Mackenzie, Poulin, & Seidman-Carlson, 2006; Pots, Meulenbeek, Veehof,…”
Mechanisms of Change in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: Self-Compassion and Mindfulness as Mediators of Intervention Outcomes (2012, positive): “…Kolar, Reger, & Pearson, 2001), to increased empathy (Shapiro et al., 1998), positive affect (Bränström, Kvillemo, Brandberg, & Moskowitz, 2010; Jain et al., 2007; Nyklícek & Kuijpers, 2008), sense of spirituality (Astin, 1997; Shapiro et al., 1998), and quality of life (Koszycki, Benger,…”
Mindfulness Practice, Rumination and Clinical Outcome in Mindfulness-Based Treatment (2014, result): “It is not entirely clear why this would occur, although several studies have found a similar pattern of results (e.g., Jain et al. 2007) in which rumination (but not distraction) has a mediational role in terms of symptom alleviation.”
Deconstructing Mindfulness and Constructing Mental Health: Understanding Mindfulness and its Mechanisms of Action (2010, background): “Mindfulness has been hypothesized to be associated with greater non-attachment (Brown, Ryan, & Creswell, 2007), which research suggests decreases rumination (McIntosh & Martin, 1992), and which is in turn associated with less psychological distress (Jain et al., 2007).”