Very interesting that the 2 minute had a significant difference in stress levels but the 6 minute video did not. I wonder if 2 minutes is “okay” to spend, but 6 is asking a whole lot!

Interesting! You mentioned an independent samples t test but I think it needs to be a mixed ANOVA since you have a within group and a between group variable.
How interesting that two minutes seems to have worked better than six minutes. I wonder if they were stressed that the study was taking too long and they had work to do. I wonder what would have happened if there was four minutes of distraction in addition to the two minute video so that the time spent could be equalized.

Interesting study! Mediation to my knowledge is something that needs to be practiced to get the most out of it, did you ask if the participants have experience with mediation prior to the study? Did you ask participants to identify what types of stressors they were currently experiencing? I wonder if they participants has “minor” stressor were the ones who were less stress after or vice versa.

Great idea for a study that can easily be done online! I was wondering if you had a “mortality” effect for your longer meditation group. I noticed that you had a smaller n for that group. Did you lose some of those people? Glad to see that even 2 minutes can calm us down a bit 🙂

I love mindfulness meditation! Any ideas as to why your hypothesis wasn’t supported?

I’m thinking about how I often have clients start with one minute meditation sessions and work their way up to 5, 10, 15 minute sessions, because sometimes thoughts like “I’m doing it wrong!” or “When is this going to end??” can creep in to the longer sessions and undo some of those calming effects. I wonder if this might have been the case here? Cool study!

This is a cool study! I have always wanted to get into meditation but never really thought it would work. However, I did the 6 minute meditation and felt better right after! It’s interesting how the 2 minute meditation had a difference, I wouldn’t have thought that. 2 minutes to me seems like nothing but I guess meditation/mindfulness is powerful!