Jacqueline Elizabeth Maloney

University of British Columbia - Vancouver | UBC · Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education

40 students (ages 17 - 18) were interviewed to investigate their experiences with contemplative practices and their perceptions thereof. Half of the participants had participated in a mindfulness-based social and emotional learning program (MindUP) when they were 9 or 10 years old. These 20 students were also asked to reflect back on their percepti...

The aims of education in the 21st century include non-cognitive skills needed to thrive in school, career, and life. As a period of transition and developmental plasticity, adolescence can be been seen as a window of opportunity for intervention to promote these developmental outcomes. The Mind & Life Education Research Network (MLERN) posited that...

40 students (ages 17 - 18) were interviewed to investigate their experiences with contemplative practices and their perceptions thereof. Half of the participants had participated in a mindfulness-based social and emotional learning program (MindUP) when they were 9 or 10 years old. These 20 students were also asked to reflect back on their percepti...

In this chapter we describe the MindUP program: A universal, mindfulness-based social and emotional learning (SEL) program designed to be implemented in schools by regular classroom teachers. We discuss how mindfulness practices and SEL activities may be synergistic, potentially bolstering the efficacy of each, and describe the iterative process of...

We utilized a mixed-methods design to examine children's responses to open-and closed-ended questions about the MindUP program via a consumer satisfaction survey. Surveys were administered to 200 children at posttest as part of a larger Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) evaluating the MindUP program. The most popular activities reported in the stud...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between self-compassion and indicators of well-being in pre- and early adolescents. Correlational analysis yielded: Significant positive relations between self-reported self-compassion and all indicators of well-being; significant negative relations between self-compassion and all indicator...