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Health Psychology

West Virginia University

2023

Well-Being

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Living Your Best Life: The Mindful Pursuit Of Student-Athlete Thriving, Andrew Augustus Jan 2023

Living Your Best Life: The Mindful Pursuit Of Student-Athlete Thriving, Andrew Augustus

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Thriving, or the concurrent experience of healthy well-being and high-level performance, may serve as a valuable construct when studying the optimal student-athlete experience and mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been shown to positively impact well-being and performance. The purpose of the present study began to examine the impact of an MBI for improving student-athlete experiences of thriving via a quasi-experimental longitudinal design. NCAA Division II student-athletes (n = 55) from three sports were randomly assigned to either a control or a 7-session MBI. While comprehensive measures of thriving did not yield significant change for those in the MBI relative to …