دورية أكاديمية

Effectiveness of Mindfulness Techniques and Virtual Reality in Reducing Stress

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Effectiveness of Mindfulness Techniques and Virtual Reality in Reducing Stress
المؤلفون: Barbara Žuro
المصدر: Psychological Topics, Vol 29, Iss 3, Pp 687-706 (2020)
بيانات النشر: University of Rijeka
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles
مصطلحات موضوعية: mindfulness, virtual reality, anxiety, electrodermal activity, Psychology, BF1-990
الوصف: Mindfulness and virtual reality (VR) have recently been growing popular as stress–coping strategies. Despite that, there is not enough research that compared these techniques or has taken personality traits into account. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of mindfulness and virtual reality techniques for immediate stress–relief and to examine the efficacy of techniques depending on individual differences in trait anxiety and dispositional mindfulness. The study was conducted on 122 participants. One VR animation was used to induce fear of height in participants, while VR nature animation and mindfulness audiotape were used to relax participants. Subjective and physiological indices of anxiety were measured through electrodermal activity. Five–Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire and Questionnaire of Approach and Avoidance Motivation were used to collect information about dispositional mindfulness and trait anxiety. Results suggest that the participants estimated that they were significantly more relaxed after the nature animation and the mindfulness audiotape compared to the control group, although the physiological measures did not follow these results. Furthermore, mindfulness audiotape was most effective in highly anxious and low mindfulness individuals, while in the case of nature animation these dispositions did not play a significant role. This study indicates the possibility to use short mindfulness and virtual reality techniques in stress–reduction as well as the importance of personality traits in their effectiveness.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
Croatian
تدمد: 1332-0742
العلاقة: http://pt.ffri.hr/index.php/pt/article/view/584Test; https://doaj.org/toc/1332-0742Test; https://doaj.org/article/dbb99305baac465d827a6274c1489cdcTest
الإتاحة: https://doaj.org/article/dbb99305baac465d827a6274c1489cdcTest
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.D5E5D08E
قاعدة البيانات: BASE