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The effect of loving-kindness meditation on employees’ mindfulness, affect, altruism and knowledge hiding
BACKGROUND: This study investigated the effects of the loving-kindness meditation (LKM) on employees’ mindfulness, affect, altruism and knowledge hiding. METHODS: In total, 100 employees were recruited from a knowledge-based enterprise in China and randomly divided into the LKM training group (n = 5...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9150317/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35644623 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-00846-0 |
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author | Liu, Chao Chen, Hao Liang, Yu-Chao Hsu, Szu-Erh Huang, Ding-Hau Liu, Chia-Yi Chiou, Wen-Ko |
author_facet | Liu, Chao Chen, Hao Liang, Yu-Chao Hsu, Szu-Erh Huang, Ding-Hau Liu, Chia-Yi Chiou, Wen-Ko |
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description | BACKGROUND: This study investigated the effects of the loving-kindness meditation (LKM) on employees’ mindfulness, affect, altruism and knowledge hiding. METHODS: In total, 100 employees were recruited from a knowledge-based enterprise in China and randomly divided into the LKM training group (n = 50) and the control group (n = 50). The LKM training group underwent LKM training for 8 weeks, while the control group did not. Seven main variables (mindfulness, altruism positive affect, negative affect, playing dumb, rationalized hiding, and evasive hiding) were measured both before (pre-test) and after (post-test) the LKM training intervention. RESULTS: The LKM intervention significantly increased participants’ altruism, and significantly reduced negative affect, playing dumb and evasive hiding, but did not significantly improve mindfulness, positive affect, and rationalized hiding. CONCLUSIONS: LKM significantly improved employees’ altruism, and significantly reduce their negative affect, but did not significantly improve their mindfulness and positive affect. For knowledge hiding, LKM significantly reduced playing dumb and evasive hiding, but had no significant effect on rationalized hiding. These results further elucidate the psychological effects of LKM and suggest the possibility of reducing knowledge hiding in the workplace. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ChiCTR2200057460. Registered in Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR), 13 March 2022—Retrospectively registered. |
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spelling | pubmed-91503172022-05-31 The effect of loving-kindness meditation on employees’ mindfulness, affect, altruism and knowledge hiding Liu, Chao Chen, Hao Liang, Yu-Chao Hsu, Szu-Erh Huang, Ding-Hau Liu, Chia-Yi Chiou, Wen-Ko BMC Psychol Research BACKGROUND: This study investigated the effects of the loving-kindness meditation (LKM) on employees’ mindfulness, affect, altruism and knowledge hiding. METHODS: In total, 100 employees were recruited from a knowledge-based enterprise in China and randomly divided into the LKM training group (n = 50) and the control group (n = 50). The LKM training group underwent LKM training for 8 weeks, while the control group did not. Seven main variables (mindfulness, altruism positive affect, negative affect, playing dumb, rationalized hiding, and evasive hiding) were measured both before (pre-test) and after (post-test) the LKM training intervention. RESULTS: The LKM intervention significantly increased participants’ altruism, and significantly reduced negative affect, playing dumb and evasive hiding, but did not significantly improve mindfulness, positive affect, and rationalized hiding. CONCLUSIONS: LKM significantly improved employees’ altruism, and significantly reduce their negative affect, but did not significantly improve their mindfulness and positive affect. For knowledge hiding, LKM significantly reduced playing dumb and evasive hiding, but had no significant effect on rationalized hiding. These results further elucidate the psychological effects of LKM and suggest the possibility of reducing knowledge hiding in the workplace. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ChiCTR2200057460. Registered in Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR), 13 March 2022—Retrospectively registered. BioMed Central 2022-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9150317/ /pubmed/35644623 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-00846-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Liu, Chao Chen, Hao Liang, Yu-Chao Hsu, Szu-Erh Huang, Ding-Hau Liu, Chia-Yi Chiou, Wen-Ko The effect of loving-kindness meditation on employees’ mindfulness, affect, altruism and knowledge hiding |
title | The effect of loving-kindness meditation on employees’ mindfulness, affect, altruism and knowledge hiding |
title_full | The effect of loving-kindness meditation on employees’ mindfulness, affect, altruism and knowledge hiding |
title_fullStr | The effect of loving-kindness meditation on employees’ mindfulness, affect, altruism and knowledge hiding |
title_full_unstemmed | The effect of loving-kindness meditation on employees’ mindfulness, affect, altruism and knowledge hiding |
title_short | The effect of loving-kindness meditation on employees’ mindfulness, affect, altruism and knowledge hiding |
title_sort | effect of loving-kindness meditation on employees’ mindfulness, affect, altruism and knowledge hiding |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9150317/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35644623 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-00846-0 |
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