Doing what matters in times of stress: No-nonsense meditation and occupational well-being in COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: While the COVID-19 pandemic challenged the general public's health and well-being, it exacerbated the pre-existing well-being issues in the educational sector in many countries. Mindfulness-based interventions are often applied to protect and promote occupational well-being. To investigate how the well-being benefits of these interventions arise, we selected one accessible technique that is used in most of them: focused attention meditation. In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, 199 teachers voluntarily practiced five to ten minutes of meditation together with their pupils, every morning for six months. We employed a three-wave longitudinal design to follow any changes in the meditating teachers' well-being and compared these changes to a waitlist control condition of 42 teachers. Three

SUBMITTER: Van de Velde J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10619828 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature