Lothes John E, Naseer Zayne, Perretti Brooke
College of Health and Applied Human Services, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington NC, USA.
Psychol Rep. 2025 Jul 7:332941251358205. doi: 10.1177/00332941251358205.
Mindfulness interventions for test anxiety in a college student population are beneficial. This study expands on the existing literature by examining how online mindfulness practices may help alleviate anxiety and test anxiety in college students utilizing a waitlist control group (WLC). This study assessed the effects of online mindfulness practices over a five-week period on anxiety and test anxiety in college students. Participants included 79 college students that were randomly assigned to either sitting meditation or WLC. Weekly mindfulness practices were given to participants to complete on their own for 5 weeks. The WLC did not do any mindfulness for the first five weeks. Participants in both conditions showed significant within-group reductions in test anxiety, overall anxiety, and DASS scores from start to finish of their mindfulness intervention. Both groups also showed increases in FFMQ scores. Mindfulness may play a role in the reduction of anxiety and test anxiety. While college counseling centers are facing hiring challenges, being understaffed, and counselors dealing with burnout, offering resources such as free online mindfulness programs can provide supplemental options for counseling centers. They also offer students dealing with anxiety and test anxiety an option to utilize these programs on their own. Further research is needed to further determine how mindfulness may affect anxiety and test anxiety in college students.
针对大学生考试焦虑的正念干预是有益的。本研究通过使用候补名单对照组（WLC）来检验在线正念练习如何帮助减轻大学生的焦虑和考试焦虑，从而扩展了现有文献。本研究评估了为期五周的在线正念练习对大学生焦虑和考试焦虑的影响。参与者包括79名大学生，他们被随机分配到坐禅组或候补名单对照组。每周会给参与者提供正念练习，让他们自行完成，为期5周。候补名单对照组在前五周不进行任何正念练习。两种情况下的参与者在正念干预开始到结束时，组内的考试焦虑、总体焦虑和抑郁焦虑压力量表（DASS）得分均有显著下降。两组的五因素正念质量问卷（FFMQ）得分也都有所提高。正念可能在减轻焦虑和考试焦虑方面发挥作用。虽然大学咨询中心面临招聘挑战、人员不足以及咨询师倦怠等问题，但提供免费在线正念课程等资源可以为咨询中心提供补充选择。这些资源也为应对焦虑和考试焦虑的学生提供了自行使用这些课程的选择。还需要进一步研究以进一步确定正念如何影响大学生的焦虑和考试焦虑。
