PubData Leuphana Repository: Daily breath-based mindfulness exercises in a randomized controlled trial improve primary school children’s performance in arithmetic

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Ressourcentyp	Zeitschriftenartikel
Titel	Daily breath-based mindfulness exercises in a randomized controlled trial improve primary school children’s performance in arithmetic
DOI	10.48548/pubdata-1420
Handle	20.500.14123/1489
Autor*in	Voltmer, Katharina 0000-0001-7660-6736 Hondrich, Finja von Salisch, Maria 0000-0002-6800-3596
Abstract	Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been shown to improve children’s academic achievements. Because MBIs include different exercises (possibly with differential effects), the teacher-led Breathing Break Intervention (BBI) was developed which focuses exclusively on breathing exercises and body awareness. The short daily breathing practices of BBI were evaluated in terms of their effects on children’s performance in mathematics. In a randomized controlled trial, N = 140 third and fourth graders (49% female) either received BBI (IG, n = 81) or participated in an active control group (ACG, n = 59). Students took a standardized arithmetic test and teachers rated their mathematics performance before (T1) and after (T2) the nine weeks of BBI, and in a follow-up five months later (T3). A mixed multilevel model with a quadratic term of time indicated a significant interaction effect between group and time on the arithmetic test after controlling for working memory updating and parental educational attainment. IG children did not show a steeper linear increase but differed significantly from ACG children in their trajectory of arithmetic performance. At T3, IG children outperformed ACG children. A multilevel ordinal logistic regression of teachers’ ratings of students’ mathematics performance revealed no significant differences between IG and ACG. Results suggest that daily breathing exercises in primary school classrooms contribute to enhancing children’s performance in arithmetic.
Sprache	Englisch
Jahr der Veröffentlichung in PubData	2024
Art der Veröffentlichung	Zweitveröffentlichung
Publikationsversion	Veröffentlichte Version
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung	2023-12-13
Entstehungskontext	Forschung
Anmerkungen	This publication was funded by the Open Access Publication Fund of Leuphana University Lüneburg.
Veröffentlicht durch	Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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Informationen zur Erstveröffentlichung

Element	Wert
Ressourcentyp	Zeitschrift
Titel des Ressourcentyps	Scientific Reports
Identifier	DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-49354-0
Publikationsjahr	2023
Band	13
Heft	1
Nummer	22169
Nummerntyp	Artikel
Verlag / Anbieter	Springer Nature