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| Field | Value |
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| Resource type | Journal Article |
| Title(s) | 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 |
| Creator | Voltmer, Katharina  0000-0001-7660-6736Hondrich, 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. |
| Language | English |
| Year of publication in PubData | 2024 |
| Publishing type | Parallel publication |
| Publication version | Published version |
| Date issued | 2023-12-13 |
| Creation context | Research |
| Faculty / department | Fakultät Nachhaltigkeit |
| Notes | This publication was funded by the Open Access Publication Fund of Leuphana University Lüneburg. |
| Date of Availability | 2024-11-06T13:23:42Z |
| Archiving Facility | Medien- und Informationszentrum (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg  02w2y2t16) |
| Published by | Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg |
Information regarding first publication
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Resource type | Journal |
| Title of the resource type | Scientific Reports |
| Identifier | DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-49354-0 |
| Publication year | 2023 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Number | 22169 |
| Number type | Article |
| Publisher | Springer Nature |
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