Original article“A Conscious Control Over Life and My Emotions:” Mindfulness Practice and Healthy Young People. A Qualitative Study
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Qualitative Research in Mindfulness
In the past decade, attempts to develop quantitative measures of mindfulness have proliferated. As Grossman [9], [10], credited with developing a mindfulness scale himself [11], has argued, the inherent complexity and subjectivity of mindfulness may render such attempts misleading. Qualitative enquiry offers a way of gaining greater depth and clarity about participants' experiences of MT and its inclusion may be an important way to enhance the validity of findings in MT studies [9], [10].
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Mindfulness training program
Characteristics and development of the MT program employed and its initial evaluation are detailed elsewhere (Monshat, 2011, in peer review). Briefly, it involved six weekly 1.5-hour sessions facilitated by C.H., an academic primary care physician with more than 20 years' experience in teaching mindfulness. Meditation practice was supported between sessions through audio-recorded instructions and handouts outlining ways to apply mindfulness skills to day-to-day life.
Recruitment
As well as posters at a
Results
The main storyline, which aims to capture the experience of participants in this study, is presented in Box 1.
Discussion
This is the first study to develop an explanatory model of how adolescents or young people relate to mindfulness practice. With the exception of the single-case adolescent study reviewed previously [21] and one study of adult college students [23], this is the first detailed qualitative study, known to the authors, of MT in participants of any age not suffering from a specific clinical disorder or social disadvantage. Young people in this study were able to go beyond an arguably superficial,
Acknowledgments
We thank all participants for giving their time and their openness in discussing personal experiences.
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