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Associations between Mindfulness, Executive Function, Social-Emotional Skills, and Quality of Life among Hispanic Children

Hispanic children constitute the largest ethnic minority in the United States of America, and yet few studies examine the relationship between mindfulness and Hispanic children’s quality of life. This 2018 study seeks to gain insight into how mindfulness is associated with Hispanic children’s qualit...

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Autores principales: Huang, Chien-Chung, Lu, Shuang, Rios, Juan, Chen, Yafan, Stringham, Marci, Cheung, Shannon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7663384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33114446
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217796
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author Huang, Chien-Chung
Lu, Shuang
Rios, Juan
Chen, Yafan
Stringham, Marci
Cheung, Shannon
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description Hispanic children constitute the largest ethnic minority in the United States of America, and yet few studies examine the relationship between mindfulness and Hispanic children’s quality of life. This 2018 study seeks to gain insight into how mindfulness is associated with Hispanic children’s quality of life. We surveyed 96 children in 5th- and 6th-grade classes in three Northern New Jersey elementary schools in 2018. Structure Equation Modeling was used to examine the associations between mindfulness, executive function, social-emotional skills, and quality of life. The results indicate that mindfulness is significantly and directly associated with executive function (β = 0.53), and that executive function is positively associated with social-emotional skills (β = 0.54) and quality of life (β = 0.51) of the sampled Hispanic children. The total effects on quality of life are significant for mindfulness (β = 0.33), executive function (β = 0.62), and social-emotional skills (β = 0.20). The findings shed light upon factors that can affect Hispanic children’s quality of life and call for interventions related to these factors in order to improve their well-being.
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spelling pubmed-76633842020-11-14 Associations between Mindfulness, Executive Function, Social-Emotional Skills, and Quality of Life among Hispanic Children Huang, Chien-Chung Lu, Shuang Rios, Juan Chen, Yafan Stringham, Marci Cheung, Shannon Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Hispanic children constitute the largest ethnic minority in the United States of America, and yet few studies examine the relationship between mindfulness and Hispanic children’s quality of life. This 2018 study seeks to gain insight into how mindfulness is associated with Hispanic children’s quality of life. We surveyed 96 children in 5th- and 6th-grade classes in three Northern New Jersey elementary schools in 2018. Structure Equation Modeling was used to examine the associations between mindfulness, executive function, social-emotional skills, and quality of life. The results indicate that mindfulness is significantly and directly associated with executive function (β = 0.53), and that executive function is positively associated with social-emotional skills (β = 0.54) and quality of life (β = 0.51) of the sampled Hispanic children. The total effects on quality of life are significant for mindfulness (β = 0.33), executive function (β = 0.62), and social-emotional skills (β = 0.20). The findings shed light upon factors that can affect Hispanic children’s quality of life and call for interventions related to these factors in order to improve their well-being. MDPI 2020-10-24 2020-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7663384/ /pubmed/33114446 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217796 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7663384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33114446
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217796
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