Fascinating (the relationship between attention control and emotion regulation was new to me) and activates my confirmation bias, but it's too early to draw any practical conclusions.
>This study compared students who completed the intervention to students who continued with school as usual, collecting self-report survey data from all students both before and after the intervention was administered.
The researchers are aware this is a limitation:
>[T]he school-as-usual control condition makes it impossible to rule out expectation effects as a source of the observed improvements
Hopefully their next experiment will give the control group and their teachers something plausible to do.
EDIT: It's unfortunate that OP's post title adds "Mindfulness-based" (and for that matter "vast") to the title of this paper. This experiment is specifically about an attention training program, not about mindfulness training.
Also, for those interested in what the program entails, there's a brief article here.
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Fascinating (the relationship between attention control and emotion regulation was new to me) and activates my confirmation bias, but it's too early to draw any practical conclusions.
>This study compared students who completed the intervention to students who continued with school as usual, collecting self-report survey data from all students both before and after the intervention was administered.
The researchers are aware this is a limitation:
>[T]he school-as-usual control condition makes it impossible to rule out expectation effects as a source of the observed improvements
Hopefully their next experiment will give the control group and their teachers something plausible to do.
EDIT: It's unfortunate that OP's post title adds "Mindfulness-based" (and for that matter "vast") to the title of this paper. This experiment is specifically about an attention training program, not about mindfulness training.
Also, for those interested in what the program entails, there's a brief article here.