PMID- 36373088
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20230216
IS  - 1389-4978 (Print)
IS  - 1573-7780 (Electronic)
IS  - 1389-4978 (Linking)
VI  - 24
IP  - 1
DP  - 2023
TI  - Meditation Quality Matters: Effects of Loving-Kindness and Compassion Meditations 
      on Subjective Well-being are Associated with Meditation Quality.
PG  - 211-229
LID - 10.1007/s10902-022-00582-7 [doi]
AB  - Loving-kindness and compassion meditations (LKCM) are considered a promising 
      practice for increasing long-term well-being. While previous studies have mainly 
      focused on meditation practice quantity, the current study provides an initial 
      exploration of the quality of meditation during multiweek LKCM training. Data 
      were collected through offline (Study 1; N = 41) and online (Study 2; N = 243) 
      LKCM interventions. Quality of meditation was measured using two kinds of 
      difficulties experienced during LKCM each week/unit (i.e., difficulty in 
      concentration and difficulty in generating prosocial attitudes). Subjective 
      well-being (SWB) was assessed by life satisfaction before and after training as 
      well as positive and negative emotions each week/unit. Two studies consistently 
      suggested that meditation quality was significantly associated with changes in 
      SWB. Study 1 even showed that quality had a stronger association with SWB than 
      did meditation quantity. Moreover, both short-term (measured each week/unit) and 
      long-term (measured across the entire training period) associations between the 
      quality of meditation and SWB were significant. Focusing on meditation quality, 
      our findings provide theoretical and methodological pathways for understanding 
      the contribution of meditation practice to LKCM training, which is helpful for 
      guiding future research and best practices. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online 
      version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10902-022-00582-7.
CI  - (c) The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022, Springer 
      Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing 
      agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of 
      the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms 
      of such publishing agreement and applicable law.
FAU - Zeng, Xianglong
AU  - Zeng X
AD  - Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, 
      National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education (Beijing 
      Normal University), Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China. GRID: 
      grid.20513.35. ISNI: 0000 0004 1789 9964
FAU - Zheng, Yuan
AU  - Zheng Y
AD  - Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, 
      National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education (Beijing 
      Normal University), Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China. GRID: 
      grid.20513.35. ISNI: 0000 0004 1789 9964
FAU - Gu, Xiaodan
AU  - Gu X
AD  - Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, 
      National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education (Beijing 
      Normal University), Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China. GRID: 
      grid.20513.35. ISNI: 0000 0004 1789 9964
FAU - Wang, Rong
AU  - Wang R
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3264-2943
AD  - College of Management, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, P.R. China. GRID: 
      grid.263488.3. ISNI: 0000 0001 0472 9649
FAU - Oei, Tian Ps
AU  - Oei TP
AD  - School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD Australia. 
      GRID: grid.1003.2. ISNI: 0000 0000 9320 7537
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20221105
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - J Happiness Stud
JT  - Journal of happiness studies
JID - 100909039
PMC - PMC9638456
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - appreciative joy
OT  - best practice
OT  - does-effect relationship
OT  - loving-kindness meditation
OT  - subjective well-being
COIS- Disclosure StatementThe authors report there are no competing interests to 
      declare.
EDAT- 2022/11/15 06:00
MHDA- 2022/11/15 06:01
PMCR- 2022/11/07
CRDT- 2022/11/14 01:47
PHST- 2022/09/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/11/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/11/15 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/11/14 01:47 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/11/07 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 582 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s10902-022-00582-7 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Happiness Stud. 2023;24(1):211-229. doi: 10.1007/s10902-022-00582-7. Epub 2022 
      Nov 5.