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Effects of animated pedagogical agent-guided loving-kindness meditation on flight attendants’ spirituality, mindfulness, subjective wellbeing, and social presence
Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) was first practiced by Buddhists and then developed by clinical psychologist. Previous studies on LKM have mainly focused on the impact of real person-guided meditation on depression, anxiety, and other negative psychology. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this study ex...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9382197/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35992420 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.894220 |
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author | Liu, Chao Chen, Hao Zhou, Fang Chiang, Chao-Hung Chen, Yi-Lang Wu, Kan Huang, Ding-Hau Liu, Chia-Yih Chiou, Wen-Ko |
author_facet | Liu, Chao Chen, Hao Zhou, Fang Chiang, Chao-Hung Chen, Yi-Lang Wu, Kan Huang, Ding-Hau Liu, Chia-Yih Chiou, Wen-Ko |
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description | Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) was first practiced by Buddhists and then developed by clinical psychologist. Previous studies on LKM have mainly focused on the impact of real person-guided meditation on depression, anxiety, and other negative psychology. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this study explored the effect and mechanism of media-guided LKM on the improvement of social presence, mindfulness, spirituality, and subjective wellbeing (SWB). From the viewpoint of positive psychology, this study compared the different media effects of animated pedagogical agent (APA)-guided LKM and audio-guided LKM. A total of 82 flight attendants were recruited from airlines; then, they were randomly assigned to two groups: APA group (41 participants) and audio group (41 participants), which both underwent an 8-week LKM training intervention. The aforementioned four main variables were measured pre and post the meditation experiment. The results indicated that both APA-guided meditation and audio-guided meditation significantly improved subjects’ spirituality and SWB. Compared with audio-guided meditation, APA-guided meditation significantly improved the subjects’ spirituality, SWB, and social presence. Audio-guided meditation has no significant effect on social presence. This study highlights APA-guided meditation has a positive effect on spirituality, SWB, and social presence, which may provide individuals with a simple and easy method to improve their mental health. |
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spelling | pubmed-93821972022-08-18 Effects of animated pedagogical agent-guided loving-kindness meditation on flight attendants’ spirituality, mindfulness, subjective wellbeing, and social presence Liu, Chao Chen, Hao Zhou, Fang Chiang, Chao-Hung Chen, Yi-Lang Wu, Kan Huang, Ding-Hau Liu, Chia-Yih Chiou, Wen-Ko Front Psychol Psychology Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) was first practiced by Buddhists and then developed by clinical psychologist. Previous studies on LKM have mainly focused on the impact of real person-guided meditation on depression, anxiety, and other negative psychology. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this study explored the effect and mechanism of media-guided LKM on the improvement of social presence, mindfulness, spirituality, and subjective wellbeing (SWB). From the viewpoint of positive psychology, this study compared the different media effects of animated pedagogical agent (APA)-guided LKM and audio-guided LKM. A total of 82 flight attendants were recruited from airlines; then, they were randomly assigned to two groups: APA group (41 participants) and audio group (41 participants), which both underwent an 8-week LKM training intervention. The aforementioned four main variables were measured pre and post the meditation experiment. The results indicated that both APA-guided meditation and audio-guided meditation significantly improved subjects’ spirituality and SWB. Compared with audio-guided meditation, APA-guided meditation significantly improved the subjects’ spirituality, SWB, and social presence. Audio-guided meditation has no significant effect on social presence. This study highlights APA-guided meditation has a positive effect on spirituality, SWB, and social presence, which may provide individuals with a simple and easy method to improve their mental health. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9382197/ /pubmed/35992420 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.894220 Text en Copyright © 2022 Liu, Chen, Zhou, Chiang, Chen, Wu, Huang, Liu and Chiou. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Liu, Chao Chen, Hao Zhou, Fang Chiang, Chao-Hung Chen, Yi-Lang Wu, Kan Huang, Ding-Hau Liu, Chia-Yih Chiou, Wen-Ko Effects of animated pedagogical agent-guided loving-kindness meditation on flight attendants’ spirituality, mindfulness, subjective wellbeing, and social presence |
title | Effects of animated pedagogical agent-guided loving-kindness meditation on flight attendants’ spirituality, mindfulness, subjective wellbeing, and social presence |
title_full | Effects of animated pedagogical agent-guided loving-kindness meditation on flight attendants’ spirituality, mindfulness, subjective wellbeing, and social presence |
title_fullStr | Effects of animated pedagogical agent-guided loving-kindness meditation on flight attendants’ spirituality, mindfulness, subjective wellbeing, and social presence |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of animated pedagogical agent-guided loving-kindness meditation on flight attendants’ spirituality, mindfulness, subjective wellbeing, and social presence |
title_short | Effects of animated pedagogical agent-guided loving-kindness meditation on flight attendants’ spirituality, mindfulness, subjective wellbeing, and social presence |
title_sort | effects of animated pedagogical agent-guided loving-kindness meditation on flight attendants’ spirituality, mindfulness, subjective wellbeing, and social presence |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9382197/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35992420 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.894220 |
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