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Using an Online-Based Mindfulness Intervention to Reduce Test Anxiety in Physics Students
Using an 8-week mindfulness intervention, we investigated the mechanisms of mindfulness to address test anxiety in introductory physics II. Our goal was to explore the effectiveness of using an 8-week online mindfulness intervention to address student test anxiety. We used self-report measures to as...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10099027/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37363055 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41465-023-00261-2 |
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author | Chancey, John B. Heddy, Benjamin C. Lippmann, Marie Abraham, Eric |
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description | Using an 8-week mindfulness intervention, we investigated the mechanisms of mindfulness to address test anxiety in introductory physics II. Our goal was to explore the effectiveness of using an 8-week online mindfulness intervention to address student test anxiety. We used self-report measures to assess participants on mindfulness, emotional regulation, attentional regulation, and physics quiz scores at three-time points—time 1 (pre), time 2 (mid), and time 3. Participants in the mindfulness condition received 8 weeks of mindfulness training while the control group was used as a baseline for comparison with no mindfulness training. The 8-week online-based mindfulness intervention resulted in non-significant changes in test anxiety and quiz scores for the treatment compared to the control. Additionally, results from multiple regression modeling suggest that emotional regulation positively predicted mindfulness at time 3 (T3) of data collection, whereas attentional regulation negatively predicted mindfulness at T3. These findings have both theoretical and practical implications. Our findings suggest more research is needed to investigate the usefulness of mindfulness-based interventions in STEM-related settings. |
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spelling | pubmed-100990272023-04-14 Using an Online-Based Mindfulness Intervention to Reduce Test Anxiety in Physics Students Chancey, John B. Heddy, Benjamin C. Lippmann, Marie Abraham, Eric J Cogn Enhanc Original Research Using an 8-week mindfulness intervention, we investigated the mechanisms of mindfulness to address test anxiety in introductory physics II. Our goal was to explore the effectiveness of using an 8-week online mindfulness intervention to address student test anxiety. We used self-report measures to assess participants on mindfulness, emotional regulation, attentional regulation, and physics quiz scores at three-time points—time 1 (pre), time 2 (mid), and time 3. Participants in the mindfulness condition received 8 weeks of mindfulness training while the control group was used as a baseline for comparison with no mindfulness training. The 8-week online-based mindfulness intervention resulted in non-significant changes in test anxiety and quiz scores for the treatment compared to the control. Additionally, results from multiple regression modeling suggest that emotional regulation positively predicted mindfulness at time 3 (T3) of data collection, whereas attentional regulation negatively predicted mindfulness at T3. These findings have both theoretical and practical implications. Our findings suggest more research is needed to investigate the usefulness of mindfulness-based interventions in STEM-related settings. Springer International Publishing 2023-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10099027/ /pubmed/37363055 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41465-023-00261-2 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Chancey, John B. Heddy, Benjamin C. Lippmann, Marie Abraham, Eric Using an Online-Based Mindfulness Intervention to Reduce Test Anxiety in Physics Students |
title | Using an Online-Based Mindfulness Intervention to Reduce Test Anxiety in Physics Students |
title_full | Using an Online-Based Mindfulness Intervention to Reduce Test Anxiety in Physics Students |
title_fullStr | Using an Online-Based Mindfulness Intervention to Reduce Test Anxiety in Physics Students |
title_full_unstemmed | Using an Online-Based Mindfulness Intervention to Reduce Test Anxiety in Physics Students |
title_short | Using an Online-Based Mindfulness Intervention to Reduce Test Anxiety in Physics Students |
title_sort | using an online-based mindfulness intervention to reduce test anxiety in physics students |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10099027/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37363055 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41465-023-00261-2 |
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