Why mindfulness can have surprising effects on academic performance
By Blog Editor, IOE Digital, on 23 January 2020
23 January 2020
By Sebastian Boo
Mindfulness is a popular approach for boosting well-being. Intuitively, one would expect this technique to help students do better in their university studies.
However, my new research finds that, while mindfulness promotes wellbeing in all students – surprisingly, for some it is associated with a drop in academic performance.
Why should this happen?