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Using Mindfulness Meditation to Reduce Academic Anxiety in Struggling Readers

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2018, BS, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
Can a mindfulness meditation intervention help struggling learners overcome anxiety caused by a deficit in reading comprehension and improve trait mindfulness, efficacy, and reading abilities? I hypothesized a mindfulness intervention could significantly improve all these areas, thus enhancing classroom performance. In this study, participants in a five-week reading intervention program took pre-assessments to measure the above-mentioned variables. They were then randomly assigned to one of two groups—mindfulness intervention or control. The mindfulness group practiced the intervention for five weeks, while the control group only received the intervention in the fifth week. Following treatment, post-assessments were taken to measure any changes in variables. Results indicated a main effect of time for reading anxiety. Subsequent analyses suggested that mindfulness meditation may have influenced this main effect.
Christopher Was, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Katherine Rawson, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Belinda Zimmerman, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
67 p.

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  • Kotik, J. D. (2018). Using Mindfulness Meditation to Reduce Academic Anxiety in Struggling Readers [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1525454078405536

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kotik, Jessica. Using Mindfulness Meditation to Reduce Academic Anxiety in Struggling Readers. 2018. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1525454078405536.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kotik, Jessica. "Using Mindfulness Meditation to Reduce Academic Anxiety in Struggling Readers." Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1525454078405536

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)