A Randomized Controlled Trial of Awareness Training Program (ATP), a Group-Based Mahayana Buddhist Intervention
Autor: | Bonnie Wai Yan Wu, Hang Kin Leung, Junling Gao, HH Sik |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
050103 clinical psychology
Group based Health (social science) Mindfulness Social Psychology education 05 social sciences Awareness training Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Intervention group Mahayana Buddhist 050105 experimental psychology Confidence interval law.invention Randomized controlled trial law Intervention (counseling) Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Applied Psychology Clinical psychology |
Zdroj: | Mindfulness. 10:1280-1293 |
ISSN: | 1868-8535 1868-8527 |
Popis: | This study evaluated the effectiveness of a Mahayana Buddhist teaching- and group-based intervention, the Awareness Training Program (ATP), which is textually aligned to a Mahayana Sūtra so that its theory and practice are coherent. The ATP aims to alleviate stress by enhancing participant’s compassion and wisdom of nonattachment. Middle-aged working adults (n = 122) in Hong Kong participated in this randomized waiting-list controlled trial. Self-reported psychological questionnaires were used to assess the participants’ level of stress (PSS), sense of coherence (SOC), psychological well-being (GHQ), and nonattachment (NAS) at pretest, posttest, and 3 months later. The data showed significant improvements in the intervention group over the controls for all outcome measures at posttest and 3 months later (post and post-3 PSS: ηp 2 = .15 and .16; post and post-3 SOC: ηp 2 = .05 and .10; post and post-3 GHQ: ηp 2 = .16 and .13; post and post-3 NAS: ηp 2 = .17 and .14). A mediation analysis demonstrated that nonattachment mediated both the treatment and the maintenance effects for all outcome variables (post and post-3 PSS: indirect effect ab = − 1.50 and − 1.70; post and post-3 SOC: ab = 2.48 and 3.61; post and post-3 GHQ: ab = − 1.65 and − 1.56; bootstrap 95% confidence interval (CI), CI does not include zero). The ATP may effectively reduce stress and improve a sense of coherence and psychological well-being by enhancing participants’ wisdom of nonattachment. This study provides promising evidence that the ATP could be an effective intervention for middle-aged working adults. |
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