The Role of Trait and State Mindfulness in Cognitive Performance of Male Adolescents.

Purpose: The number of mindfulness intervention projects is continually increasing. Within the educational environment, mindfulness has purported links to well-being, positive behaviour, educational and cognitive performance. Trait mindfulness is related to rational thinking and better performance in cognitive tests, suggesting that innate mindfulness ability contributes to self-regulation ability and thus the efficacy of mindfulness interventions.

Complexity and Entropy in Physiological Signals (CEPS): Resonance Breathing Rate Assessed Using Measures of Fractal Dimension, Heart Rate Asymmetry and Permutation Entropy.

Background: As technology becomes more sophisticated, more accessible methods of interpretating Big Data become essential. We have continued to develop (CEPS) as an open access MATLAB GUI (graphical user interface) providing multiple methods for the modification and analysis of physiological data.

Methods: To demonstrate the functionality of the software, data were collected from 44 healthy adults for a study investigating the effects on vagal tone of breathing paced at five different rates, as well as self-paced and un-paced.

The Effect of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Training on Vagal Tone in Athletically Talented Secondary School Students.

Unlabelled: This study examines whether twelve sessions of heart rate variability biofeedback training would improve vagally mediated heart rate variability. If so, it would go some way in explaining why breathing-based interventions reduce clinical symptoms and improve non-clinical performance outcomes.

Methods: Thirty participants (N = 30, N = 13) aged 14-13-year-old, all talented athletes, from a sport specialist school in SE London UK, were randomly divided into three groups, a control group, a psychology skills training combined with heart rate variability biofeedback training group, and a heart rate variability biofeedback only group.

Exploring the therapeutic alliance and race from sports psychologists' and athletes' lived experiences: A pilot study.

The therapeutic alliance has been explored widely within therapy literature but more research is necessary on the sport and exercise psychology client dyad. The racial/cultural identity development model and Rogers's (1957) six core conditions provide the conceptual and theoretical framework for this pilot qualitative study, which seeks to explore the building process in therapeutic relationships within cross-racial sport and exercise psychology. The perspectives of four black athletes of mixed descent and seven sport and exercise psychologists from diverse backgrounds (Arab = 1, Black British = 3, White British = 3) were considered.

Mindfulness and self-efficacy in pain perception, stress and academic performance. The influence of mindfulness on cognitive processes.

Purpose: This study seeks to understand the mediating effects of mindfulness on self-efficacy, academic performance and ability to cope with pain. It further examines the effect of mindfulness on the capacity to cope with pain-induced stress. Whilst there are physiological changes which occur due to mindfulness, it is still not clearly understood how the mechanisms behind mindfulness work or whether the role of self-efficacy is an agent of mindfulness which may impact on performance and stress coping.

Monocyclopentadienyl-Titanium Aryloxide Sulfide Complexes.

In this report we extend titanium-sulfide chemistry, describing the syntheses, structures, and chemistry of monocyclopentadienyl-titanium aryloxide sulfide complexes. Reduction of Cp'Ti(OC(6)H(3)-2,6-i-Pr(2))Cl(2) (Cp' = Cp (1), Cp (3)) with n-BuLi affords the Ti(III) compounds [CpTi(OC(6)H(3)-2,6-i-Pr(2))(&mgr;-Cl)](2) (2) and [CpTi(OC(6)H(3)-2,6-i-Pr(2))(&mgr;-Cl)](2) (4). Compound 2 is oxidized by moisture, giving [CpTi(OC(6)H(3)-2,6-i-Pr(2))Cl](2)(&mgr;-O) (5).