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The interventional effects of loving-kindness meditation on positive emotions and interpersonal interactions

Overview of attention for article published in Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, May 2015
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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Title
The interventional effects of loving-kindness meditation on positive emotions and interpersonal interactions
Published in
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, May 2015
DOI 10.2147/ndt.s79607
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Xiaoli He, Wendian Shi, Xiangxiang Han, Nana Wang, Ni Zhang, Xiaoli Wang

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate the effects of loving-kindness meditation on positive emotions, intragroup interactions, and complex understanding of others. A total of 50 freshmen not receiving any training in meditation intervention were randomly divided into the meditation group (25 subjects) and the control group (25 subjects). The meditation group was implemented with group meditation intervention for 4 weeks, three times a week, about 30 minutes each time. The results revealed that the effect sizes in interpersonal interaction and complex understanding of others in the meditation group were both above 0.8, indicating strong effects. It was concluded that loving-kindness meditation can effectively improve positive emotions, interpersonal interactions, and complex understanding of others in college students.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 114 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 21 18%
Researcher 16 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 12%
Student > Bachelor 11 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 9%
Other 19 16%
Unknown 24 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 51 44%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 4%
Social Sciences 4 3%
Other 9 8%
Unknown 31 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 February 2023.
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#1,891,899
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
#240
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#23,612
of 278,920 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
#9
of 72 outputs
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