The life impact of mindfulness training on employees with mental anxiety disorders

Abstract

Background

Mindfulness training helps employees better cope with work and life stress by enhancing individual attention and self-awareness. At the same time, mindfulness training can help employees accept and tolerate their emotions and experiences, improve their self-efficacy and self-acceptance ability, and thus reduce anxiety.

Subjects and Methods

A survey was conducted on 20 employees of a listed company in a specific city, and 20 questionnaires were collected, including 13 males and seven females. There were 6 cases with obvious anxiety symptoms, ten subjects with mild anxiety, and four without anxiety symptoms. Sixteen employees with anxiety symptoms were selected as the experimental group and received psychological intervention treatment using mindfulness training. Three months later, they were re-evaluated using the Anxiety Self Rating Scale. The effectiveness of the intervention treatment was statistically analyzed using SPSS23.0 software.

Results

After treatment, the experimental group of employees showed significant improvement in anxiety levels, with six recovered, eight significantly improved, and two not recovered. There was a statistically significant difference between the control and patient groups, with P values less than 0.05.

Conclusions

The overall education level of the company’s employees is relatively high, accompanied by work pressure, interpersonal relationships, and family relationships, leading to anxiety symptoms among employees. Mindfulness training can improve employees’ emotional regulation and coping abilities and promote positive emotions and psychological states.

Acknowledgement

Social Science Foundation of Hebei Province (No.HB22GL037); New Liberal Arts Research and Reform Practice Project of the Ministry of Education (No.2021120010); National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.71862013).