The Effects of Mindfulness Training on Emotional Health in Chinese Long-Term Male Prison Inmates

Mindfulness

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1044-1051

  Xu, Wei ^a,b   Jia, Kun ^a   Liu, Xinghua ^a   Hofmann, Stefan G ^c  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Inmates; Meditation; Mindfulness treatment; Negative emotions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986000946     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-016-0540-x     Document Type: Article

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