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Combating Stress With Yoga: A Theoretical Model Of Self-Regulation, Sierra K. Wait
Combating Stress With Yoga: A Theoretical Model Of Self-Regulation, Sierra K. Wait
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Exposure to environmental stressors may challenge children’s developing self-regulatory abilities and increase their risk of developing emotional and behavior problems. Interventions aimed at improving children’s self-regulatory skills, specifically emotion regulation and attentional control, may reduce children’s risk for adjustment problems. The present study proposed a novel theoretical model which describes how participation in yoga may increase children’s self-regulatory skills and increase children’s mindfulness, or the ability to focus attention on the present moment. Both self-regulation and mindfulness were expected to be associated with fewer anxiety problems. Components of the theoretical model were evaluated using a very small sample of at-risk, …