From Research
Papers to go with the event of 19th July 2023
Mindfulness for ‘Bigger than Self’ Concerns: Part 1 A Community exploration
You can read the papers here:
PAPER: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1…
RESOURCE: https://home.mindfulness-network.org/…
This is the latest paper that refers to impacts from the Welsh Government Mindfulness Based Behavioural Insights programme: https://jabsc.org/index.php/jabsc/article/view/3857
You can find a whole range of research papers from the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University here Publications.
Evidence for Compassionate Mind Training in high stress professions
Wellbeing and burnout in schoolteachers: the psychophysiological case for self-compassion
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-024-07060-8
An unprecedented mental health crisis exists in the education sector. Teachers are reporting high levels of stress and burnout across the world (e.g., García-Carmona et al., 2019), a situation that has been exacerbated by Covid-19 (e.g., Nabe-Nielsen et al., 2021).
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In conclusion, the main finding of this study suggests that self-compassion is related to our physiological responses to stress. More specifically, our findings indicate that self-compassion could potentially improve resilience to the negative effects of high job demands (such as depersonalisation) in the absence of adequate job resources. Whilst the present research was conducted in a sample of teachers/educators, future research should explore compassionate mind training interventions across different high-stress/burnout professional contexts to evaluate their impact on psychological and physiological measures, with an eye to individual differences, such as self-criticism and imagery abilities, as important mediators of effectiveness.
An unprecedented mental health crisis exists in the education sector. Teachers are reporting high levels of stress and burnout across the world (e.g., García-Carmona et al., 2019), a situation that has been exacerbated by Covid-19 (e.g., Nabe-Nielsen et al., 2021).
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In conclusion, the main finding of this study suggests that self-compassion is related to our physiological responses to stress. More specifically, our findings indicate that self-compassion could potentially improve resilience to the negative effects of high job demands (such as depersonalisation) in the absence of adequate job resources. Whilst the present research was conducted in a sample of teachers/educators, future research should explore compassionate mind training interventions across different high-stress/burnout professional contexts to evaluate their impact on psychological and physiological measures, with an eye to individual differences, such as self-criticism and imagery abilities, as important mediators of effectiveness.
Watch this space for more research inspiration.