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- Charles Elder, et al. - Effect of Transcendental Meditation on Employee Stress, Depression, and Burnout: A Randomized Controlled Study.
Charles Elder, Sanford Nidich, Francis Moriarty, Randi Nidich. Effect of Transcendental Meditation on Employee Stress, Depression, and Burnout: A Randomized Controlled Study. The Permanente Journal/ Winter 2014/ Volume 18 No. 1
- Charles Elder et al. Reduced Psychological Distress in Racial and Ethnic Minority Students Practicing the Transcendental Meditation Program
Journal of Instructional Psychology. June 2011;38(2):109-116. (The link displays a EurekAlert summary; article itself is behind a paywall.)
- Laurent Vaolosek et al. - Effect of Meditation on Emotional Intelligence and Perceived Stress in the Workplace: A Randomized Controlled Study
Laurent Valosek, Janice Link, Paul Mills, Arthur Konrad, Maxwell Rainforth, Sanford Nidich. Perm J 2018;22:17-172. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7812/TPP/17-172 ABSTRACT Context: Research highlights the role of emotional intelligence and perceived stress as important factors associated with mental and physical health and organizational effectiveness. Objective: To determine whether a mind-body technique, the Transcendental Meditationa (TM) program, delivered in the context of a workplace wellness program, could significantly decrease perceived stress and improve emotional intelligence in government employees. Design: Ninety-six central-office staff at the San Francisco Unified School District were randomly assigned to either an immediate start of the TM program or to a wait-list control group. Main Outcome Measures: The Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory and the Perceived Stress Scale were administered at baseline and at 4-month posttest. Results: Findings indicate a significant increase in emotional intelligence total score (p < 0.003) and a significant decrease in perceived stress (p < 0.02) in TM participants compared with controls. A significant increase in general mood, stress management, adaptability, intrapersonal awareness, and reality testing composite scales for emotional intelligence were observed (p < 0.05); a significant increase was not observed in the interpersonal scale. Compliance with meditation practice was high (93%). Because of the sex composition in this study, results are most generalizable to female employees. Conclusion: The TM program was effective as a workplace wellness program to improve emotional intelligence and reduce perceived stress in employees.
- Meditation enhances social-emotional learning in middle school students
Laurent Valosek, Sanford Nidich, Staci Wendt, Jamie Grant, Randi Nidich. Effect of Meditation on Social-Emotional Learning in Middle School Students. Education, Volume 139, Number 3, March 2019, pp. 111-119(9).
Center for Wellness and Achievement in Education
Available from: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/prin/ed/2019/00000139/00000003/art00001
- Robert Colbert and Sanford Nidich - Effect of the transcendental meditation program on graduation, college acceptance and dropout rates for students attending an urban public high school
Colbert, R., & Nidich, S. (2013). Effect of the transcendental meditation program on graduation, college acceptance and dropout rates for students attending an urban public high school, Education, 144(4), 495-501. (There are multiple journals with this title; the publisher for this one is Project Innovation.)
- Robert Colbert and Sanford Nidich - full text link for preceding article - requires UNC or AHEC login to access
- Sanford Nidich, et al. Academic achievement and transcendental meditation: a study with at-risk urban middle school students.
Academic achievement and transcendental meditation: a study with at-risk urban middle school students. Sanford Nidich, Shujaa Mjasiri, Randi Nidich, Maxwell Rainforth, James Grant, Laurent Valosek, Walter Chang, Ronald L. Zigler. Education 131.3 (2011):556+. Academic OneFile. Web. 5 Mar. 2014
- Staci Wendt et al. - Practicing Transcendental Meditation in High Schools: Relationship to Well-being and Academic Achievement Among Students
Staci Wendt, Jerry Hipps, Allan Abrams, Jamie Grant, Laurent Valosek, Sanford Nidich. Practicing Transcendental Meditation in High Schools: Relationship to Well-being and Academic Achievement Among Students. Contemporary School Psychology. December 2015, Volume 19, Issue 4, pp 312–319. The Quiet Time program provides a 15-min period at the beginning and end of the school day where students may practice Transcendental Meditation (TM) or another quiet activity such as reading silently to oneself. This study examined the impact of participating in Quiet Time on ninth-grade students (n = 141) by comparing their outcomes to those of a group of ninth-grade students (n = 53) attending a school that did not participate in Quiet Time. Students in both groups completed an assessment battery in early October 2012, shortly after which treatment students learned TM, and again in May 2013. Analysis of covariance was used to analyze the differences between the treatment and comparison groups. Results indicated that students who participated in Quiet Time scored significantly lower on anxiety (p < 0.05) and higher on resilience (p < 0.05) at follow-up than comparison group students. Within the treatment group, students who spent more time meditating also had higher resilience scores and higher instruction time. After participating in Quiet Time, students self-reported increases in their sleep, happiness, and self-confidence.
- Vernon Barnes et al. - Impact of stress reduction on negative school behavior in adolescents
Impact of stress reduction on negative school behavior in adolescents Vernon A Barnes, Lynnette B Bauza, and Frank A Treiber. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, 1:10 Abstract Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of stress reduction via the Transcendental Meditation program on school rule infractions in adolescents. Methods: Forty-five African American adolescents (ages 15–18 years) with high normal systolic blood pressure were randomly assigned to either Transcendental Meditation (n = 25) or health education control (n = 20) groups. The meditation group engaged in 15-min sessions at home and at school each day for 4 months. The control group was presented 15-min sessions of health education at school each day for 4 months. Primary outcome measures were changes in absenteeism, school rule infractions and suspension days during the four-month pretest period prior to randomization compared with the four-month intervention period. Results: Comparing the pretest and intervention periods, the meditation group exhibited a mean decrease of 6.4 absentee periods compared to an increase of 4.8 in the control group (p < .05). The meditation group exhibited a mean decrease of 0.1 infractions over the four months compared to an increase of 0.3 in the control group (p < .03). There was a mean reduction of 0.3 suspension days due to behavior-related problems in the meditation group compared to an increase of 1.2 in the control group (p < .04). Conclusion: These findings demonstrate that the Transcendental Meditation program conducted in the school setting has a beneficial impact upon absenteeism, rule infractions, and suspension rates in African American adolescents.
- z - Extensive list of research related to TM and education-related factors
Attendance, suspensions, high school graduation, test scores, GPA, ADHD symptoms, psychological distress, stress, happiness, brain functioning, creativity, measures of intelligence, etc.