Boosting Positive Development in Adolescence

A pilot study on meditation in school.

1 October 2018

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骋谤补苍迟:听Grand Challenges Small Grants
Year awarded:听2018-19
Amount awarded:听拢3,990

Academics

Gabriella Conti, Social Sciences, Social and Historical Sciences
Pasco Fearon, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, Brain Sciences

The project assessed听the acceptability of meditation programmes in school settings, and their effects on adolescents鈥� academic achievement, self-esteem, stress, and social ties. The pilot randomized controlled trial took in an English secondary school and combined the knowledge of the neural and mental processes underlying adolescent development which are studied in the brain sciences domain with the expertise on how positive development is fostered through school-based interventions, coming from the educational and economic sciences. 听

Following the pilot, the team has replicated the study in County Donegal, Ireland, and added a few measures for mental health and wellbeing.

The听paper '' published in January 2022听in the journal听Frontiers in Psychology听describes the implementation and evaluation of a transcendental meditation intervention in schools in the UK and Ireland.

Outputs and Impacts

paper in听Frontiers in Psychology

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