PMID- 37221984
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20240208
LR  - 20240208
IS  - 1532-2998 (Electronic)
IS  - 1532-3005 (Linking)
VI  - 40
IP  - 1
DP  - 2024 Feb
TI  - Loving-kindness and compassion meditations in the workplace: A meta-analysis and 
      future prospects.
PG  - e3273
LID - 10.1002/smi.3273 [doi]
AB  - Loving-kindness and compassion meditation (LKCM) have been well applied among 
      employees to improve their health and well-being. Existing studies on LKCM have 
      also provided supportive evidence of its benefits and effectiveness under 
      organizational contexts. The current meta-analytical study aimed to 
      systematically summarise the effects of LKCM in the workplace and to outline 
      directions for future research and practice. Among 327 empirical studies on LKCM 
      published until March 2022, 21 trials focussed on employees and provided 
      sufficient information, which were included in the following meta-analysis. The 
      results showed that LKCM benefited eight categories of workplace outcomes. 
      Specifically, LKCM effectively decreased employees' burnout (g = 0.395, k = 10) 
      and stress (g = 0.544, k = 10) and facilitated their mindfulness (g = 0.558, 
      k = 14), self-compassion (g = 0.646, k = 12), personal mental health (g = 0.308, 
      k = 13), job attitudes (g = 0.283, k = 4), interpersonal relationships 
      (g = 0.381, k = 12), and psychological resources (g = 0.406, k = 6). The results 
      of moderation analyses further indicated that the participants' job type, gender, 
      and the focus of LKCM might differentially fluctuate the magnitude of LKCM 
      effects. To advance research and best practice, we finally pointed out several 
      issues that deserve attention, such as long-term effects, underlying mechanisms, 
      potential moderators, and outcomes or influential factors at the organizational 
      level.
CI  - (c) 2023 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
FAU - Wang, Rong
AU  - Wang R
AD  - College of Management, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
FAU - Gu, Xiaodan
AU  - Gu X
AD  - Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration 
      Center for Experimental Psychology Education (Beijing Normal University), Faculty 
      of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
FAU - Zhang, Yang
AU  - Zhang Y
AD  - Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration 
      Center for Experimental Psychology Education (Beijing Normal University), Faculty 
      of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
FAU - Luo, Kangzhou
AU  - Luo K
AD  - Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration 
      Center for Experimental Psychology Education (Beijing Normal University), Faculty 
      of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
FAU - Zeng, Xianglong
AU  - Zeng X
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4793-7146
AD  - Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration 
      Center for Experimental Psychology Education (Beijing Normal University), Faculty 
      of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
LA  - eng
GR  - 32200896/National Natural Science Foundation of China/
GR  - 71702108/National Natural Science Foundation of China/
GR  - 21YJC190016/Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation, Ministry of 
      Education of the People's Republic of China/
GR  - 2022A1515011838/Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China/
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Meta-Analysis
PT  - Review
DEP - 20230523
PL  - England
TA  - Stress Health
JT  - Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of 
      Stress
JID - 101089166
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - Empathy
MH  - *Meditation/methods
MH  - Mental Health
MH  - *Burnout, Professional
MH  - Workplace
MH  - *Mindfulness
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - compassion
OT  - employees
OT  - loving kindness
OT  - meditation
OT  - well-being
OT  - workplace
EDAT- 2023/05/24 06:42
MHDA- 2024/02/08 06:43
CRDT- 2023/05/24 03:46
PHST- 2023/02/25 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/08/05 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/05/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2024/02/08 06:43 [medline]
PHST- 2023/05/24 06:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/05/24 03:46 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/smi.3273 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Stress Health. 2024 Feb;40(1):e3273. doi: 10.1002/smi.3273. Epub 2023 May 23.