Mindfulness-based coping with university life: A non-randomized wait-list-controlled pilot evaluation

Stress and Health

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 365-375

  Lynch, Siobhan ^a,b   Gander, Marie Louise ^c   Kohls, Niko ^d,g,h   Kudielka, Brigitte ^e   Walach, Harald ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^f EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA   (Germany)

^g Peter Schilffarth Institute for Sociotechnology   (Germany)

^h SAMUELI INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

meditation; mindfulness; salivary alpha amylase; salivary cortisol; student mental health

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PILOT STUDY; SALIVA LEVEL; STRESS; UNIVERSITY;

EID: 82355182867     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: 15322998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.1382     Document Type: Article

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