Does meditation training promote pro-environmental behavior? A cross-sectional comparison and a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Meditation training may promote pro-environmental behavior and related variables, though limited research has tested this experimentally. We investigated whether short- or long-term meditation training were associated with pro-environmental behavior, environmental attitudes, and sustainable well-being (i.e., well-being per unit consumption). In a cross-sectional comparison, long-term meditators (n=31; mean=9,154 meditation hours) displayed greater environmental attitudes (d=0.63) but not pro-environmental behavior or sustainable well-being compared to meditation-naïve participants (ds=-0.14-0.27). In a randomized controlled trial (n=125), eight-week training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction did not significantly improve target variables relative to w

SUBMITTER: Riordan KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10035784 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature