Publications by authors named "Kimberly L Wang"
At-home use of app-based mindfulness for children: A randomized active-controlled trial.
Mindfulness (N Y)
November 2023
Objectives: School-based mindfulness interventions in children have shown benefits to child well-being. Here, we investigated the effectiveness of a remote, app-based mindfulness intervention for promoting well-being in children.
Methods: We conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with two control groups to examine the effects of an 8-week mindfulness intervention in U.
An important aspect of mental health in children is emotional resilience: the capacity to adapt to, and recover from, stressors and emotional challenges. Variation in trait mindfulness, one's disposition to attend to experiences with an open and nonjudgmental attitude, may be an important individual difference in children that supports emotional resilience. In this study, we investigated whether trait mindfulness was related to emotional resilience in response to stressful changes in education and home-life during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn important aspect of mental health in children is emotional resilience, the capacity to adapt to, and recover from, stressors and emotional challenges. Variation in trait mindfulness, one’s disposition to attend to experiences with an open and nonjudgmental attitude, may be an important individual difference in children that supports emotional resilience. In this study, we investigated whether trait mindfulness was related to emotional resilience in response to stressful changes in education and home-life during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntervention studies with developmental samples are difficult to implement, in particular when targeting demographically diverse communities. Online studies have the potential to examine the efficacy of highly scalable interventions aimed at enhancing development, and to address some of the barriers faced by underrepresented communities for participating in developmental research. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we executed a fully remote randomized controlled trial (RCT) language intervention with third and fourth grade students ( = 255; age range 8.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger.
Nat Neurosci
December 2020
Article Synopsis
- Researchers used brain imaging to study how isolation affects people's desire for social interaction after they experienced either fasting or social isolation for 10 hours.
- Participants reported feeling lonely and craved social engagement after isolation, showing different neural responses to social cues compared to food cues after fasting.
- The findings suggest that both social isolation and fasting create specific cravings in the brain, indicating that acute social deprivation leads to a heightened desire for social connection, much like hunger from fasting.