Women Benefit More Than Men in Response to College-based Meditation Training.
Women Benefit More Than Men in Response to College-based Meditation Training.
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00551
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Britton WB
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作者：
Rojiani R;Santoyo JF;Rahrig H;Roth HD;Britton WB
目标：虽然最近的文献表明正念训练对治疗焦虑和抑郁具有积极作用，但几乎没有研究调查这种效果是否因性别而异——尽管事实上男性和女性在临床上存在显着差异。目前的研究调查了大学冥想训练对男性和女性的负面情绪是否有不同的影响。方法：77 名大学生（36 名女性，年龄 = 20.7 ± 3.0 岁）参加了为期 12 周的包含冥想训练的课程。他们在课程前后完成了关于情感、正念和自我同情的自我报告问卷。结果：与男性相比，女性的负面情绪减少幅度更大，而正念和自我慈悲的量表增加幅度更大。女性负面情绪的改善与正念技能和自我慈悲测量的改善相关。相比之下，男性的负面情绪并没有显着增加，而且情绪的变化仅与描述情绪的能力相关，与任何经验或自我接受的衡量指标无关。结论：这些研究结果表明，女性可能比男性对基于学校的正念训练有更有利的反应，并且基于正念的干预措施的有效性可以通过针对特定性别的修改来最大化。
Objectives: While recent literature has shown that mindfulness training has positive effects on treating anxiety and depression, there has been virtually no research investigating whether effects differ across genders—despite the fact that men and women differ in clinically significant ways. The current study investigated whether college-based meditation training had different effects on negative affect for men and women. Methods: Seventy-seven university students (36 women, age = 20.7 ± 3.0 years) participated in 12-week courses with meditation training components. They completed self-report questionnaires of affect, mindfulness, and self-compassion before and after the course. Results: Compared to men, women showed greater decreases in negative affect and greater increases on scales measuring mindfulness and self-compassion. Women’s improvements in negative affect were correlated to improvements in measures of both mindfulness skills and self-compassion. In contrast, men showed non-significant increases in negative affect, and changes in affect were only correlated with ability to describe emotions, not any measures of experiential or self-acceptance. Conclusion: These findings suggest that women may have more favorable responses than men to school-based mindfulness training, and that the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions may be maximized by gender-specific modifications.