Meditation Awareness Training (MAT) for work-related wellbeing and job performance: a randomised controlled trial

Shonin, E, Van Gordon, W ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5648-3043, Dunn, TJ, Singh, NN and Griffiths, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524, 2014. Meditation Awareness Training (MAT) for work-related wellbeing and job performance: a randomised controlled trial. International Journal of Mental Health Addiction, 12 (6), pp. 806-823. ISSN 1557-1874

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Abstract

Due to its potential to concurrently improve work-related wellbeing (WRW) and job performance, occupational stakeholders are becoming increasingly interested in the applications of meditation. The present study conducted the first randomized controlled trial to assess the effects of meditation on outcomes relating to both WRW and job performance. Office-based middle-hierarchy managers (n = 152) received an eight-week meditation intervention (Meditation Awareness Training; MAT) or an active control intervention. MAT participants demonstrated significant and sustainable improvements (with strong effect sizes) over control-group participants in levels of work-related stress, job satisfaction, psychological distress, and employer-rated job performance. There are a number of novel implications: (i) meditation can effectuate a perceptual shift in how employees experience their work and psychological environment and may thus constitute a cost-effective WRW intervention, (ii) meditation-based (i.e., present-moment-focussed) working styles may be more effective than goal-based (i.e., future-orientated) working styles, and (iii) meditation may reduce the separation made by employees between their own interests and those of the organizations they work for.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	International Journal of Mental Health Addiction
Creators:	Shonin, E., Van Gordon, W., Dunn, T.J., Singh, N.N. and Griffiths, M.D.
Publisher:	Springer
Date:	2014
Volume:	12
Number:	6
ISSN:	1557-1874
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1007/s11469-014-9513-2 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	30 Nov 2015 15:44
Last Modified:	05 Jul 2022 08:37
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/26554

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