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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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Autores principales: Liu, Chao, Chen, Hao, Zhou, Fang, Chiang, Chao-Hung, Chen, Yi-Lang, Wu, Kan, Huang, Ding-Hau, Liu, Chia-Yih, Chiou, Wen-Ko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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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.
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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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