Hülsheger et al., 2012: Teaching mindfulness meditation reduced emotional exhaustion and increased job satisfaction among employees over ten work days
Reference:
Hülsheger, U. R., Alberts, H. J., Feinholdt, A., & Lang, J. W. (2013). Benefits of mindfulness at work: the role of mindfulness in emotion regulation, emotional exhaustion, and job satisfaction. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98(2), 310.
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Employees in diverse jobs took part in a 2-week intervention to teach them “mindfulness mediation and informal daily exercises [aimed] at cultivating an accepting, nonjudgmental attitude to what one experiences in each moment.” As compared to a no-treatment randomized control group, this reduced emotional exhaustion and increased job satisfaction over 10 work days.
Psychological Process:
What Desired Meaning is At Stake?
What is the Person Trying to Understand?
Selves (My Own and Others')Approach to Desired Meaning
What about it?
Changing beliefs about emotions, states, and the valence of the self-conceptHow?
Psychological Question Addressed
Are current or upcoming emotions, states, and experiences negative and undermining?Are current or upcoming emotions, states, and experiences negative and undermining?Psychological Question Addressed
Are current or upcoming emotions, states, and experiences negative and undermining?Psychological Process 2:
Psychological Process 3:
Social Area:
Well-being; Work
Intervention Technique:
Active reflection, on emotions