@article{01HM9AWWG6VREAX8EX0M1E3020,
  abstract     = {{While the COVID-19 pandemic challenged the general public's health and well-being, it exacerbated the pre-existing well-being issues in the educational sector in many countries. Mindfulness-based interventions are often applied to protect and promote occupational well-being. To investigate how the well-being benefits of these interventions arise, we selected one accessible technique that is used in most of them: focused attention meditation. In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, 199 teachers voluntarily practiced five to ten minutes of meditation together with their pupils, every morning for six months. We employed a three-wave longitudinal design to follow any changes in the meditating teachers' well-being and compared these changes to a waitlist control condition of 42 teachers. Three dimensions of well-being were measured at baseline, half-time, and post-intervention: emotional, cognitive, and physical well-being. Latent growth curve models revealed that the meditation technique not only improves well-being but also prevents the development of well-being problems. The practice of focused attention meditation resulted in improvements in emotional and physical well-being and prevented the development of cognitive well-being problems that were observed within the control condition. The effects were strongest for emotional and cognitive well-being and followed a linear trend. This paper shows that the well-being effects of mindfulness-based interventions are at least in part due to the focused attention meditation that is practiced in them. Occupational groups that experience emotional, cognitive, or physical well-being issues can benefit from a few minutes of focused attention meditation per day.}},
  articleno    = {{e0292406}},
  author       = {{Van de Velde, Justine and Levecque, Katia and Weijters, Bert and  Laureys, Steven}},
  issn         = {{1932-6203}},
  journal      = {{PLOS ONE}},
  keywords     = {{FOCUSED ATTENTION,COGNITIVE THERAPY,SCHOOL TEACHERS,FIT INDEXES,MINDFULNESS,METAANALYSIS,WORK,INTERVENTIONS,VALIDATION,REDUCTION}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{11}},
  pages        = {{23}},
  title        = {{Doing what matters in times of stress : no-nonsense meditation and occupational well-being in COVID-19}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292406}},
  volume       = {{18}},
  year         = {{2023}},
}

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