Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Keywords
Human behaviour, Psychology
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Nature Human Behaviour
Abstract
Mindfulness witnessed a substantial popularity surge in the past decade, especially as digitally self-administered interventions became available at relatively low costs. Yet, it is uncertain whether they effectively help reduce stress. In a preregistered (OSF https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/UF4JZ; retrospective registration at ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06308744) multi-site study (nsites = 37, nparticipants = 2,239, 70.4% women, Mage = 22.4, s.d.age = 10.1, all fluent English speakers), we experimentally tested whether four single, standalone mindfulness exercises effectively reduced stress, using Bayesian mixed-effects models. All exercises proved to be more efficacious than the active control. We observed a mean difference of 0.27 (d = −0.56; 95% confidence interval, −0.43 to −0.69) between the control condition (M = 1.95, s.d. = 0.50) and the condition with the largest stress reduction (body scan: M = 1.68, s.d. = 0.46). Our findings suggest that mindfulness may be beneficial for reducing self-reported short-term stress for English speakers from higher-income countries.
Department
Department of Psychology
Original Publication Date
6-11-2024
Object Description
1 PDF File
DOI of published version
10.1038/s41562-024-01907-7
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Copyright
©2024 The Author(s) This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Sparacio, Alessandro; IJzerman, Hans; Ropovik, Ivan; Giorgini, Filippo; Spiessens, Christoph; Uchino, Bert N.; Landvatter, Joshua; Tacana, Tracey; Diller, Sandra J.; Derrick, Jaye L.; Segundo, Joahana; Pierce, Jace D.; Ross, Robert M.; Francis, Zoë; LaBoucane, Amanda; Ma-Kellams, Christine; Ford, Maire B.; Schmidt, Kathleen; Wong, Celia C.; Higgins, Wendy C.; Stone, Bryant M.; Stanley, Samantha K.; Ribeiro, Gianni; Fuglestad, Paul T.; Jaklin, Valerie; Kübler, Andrea; Ziebell, Philipp; Jewell, Crystal L.; Kovas, Yulia; and Urgyen, Tenzin, "Self-Administered Mindfulness Interventions Reduce Stress in a Large, Randomized Controlled Multi-Site Study" (2024). Faculty Publications. 6022.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/6022
Comments
First published in Nature Human Behavior, (Jun 2024) published by Springer Nature Limited. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01907-7