Integrated mindfulness-based intervention: Effects on mindfulness skills, cognitive interference and performance satisfaction of young elite badminton players
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Development of the Mindfulness Badminton Integrated programme
The MBI programme was designed by our research team, which has solid experience in sport psychology counselling and especially in the implementation of MABI for athletes (8 years on average). The MBI programme was developed as an adaptation of the MAC (Gardner & Moore, 2007) and other previous mindfulness interventions conducted with elite athletes (Bernier et al., 2009, 2014). Following the MAC’s principles (i.e., psychoeducation, mindfulness, cognitive defusion, goal-driven behaviour,
Questionnaire results
Table 2 shows the means and standard deviations of the main variables for the badminton players in the MBI group and control group at pre- and post-intervention.
Pre-intervention comparisons. Firstly, the groups’ characteristic comparisons showed that there was no significant difference between the groups of badminton players in age (F(1, 27) = 0.99, p = 0.33), badminton playing experience (F(1, 27) = 0.97, p = 0.33), or number of hours’ training per week (F(1, 27) = 0.80, p = 0.38). In
Discussion
The current study aimed to design and implement an integrated MABI (i.e., the MBI programme) for badminton training and performance settings, and to investigate its impact through a mixed methods approach (Huynh et al., 2019). Firstly, its effects on the mindfulness skills (i.e., awareness, acceptance, refocusing), cognitive interference (i.e., disruptive thoughts), and performance satisfaction of young elite badminton players were assessed from a quantitative approach and compared to an active
Conclusion
The design, implementation and evaluation of the MBI programme led to contrasting results when compared to an active group control. While the MBI programme appeared to improve awareness skill and decrease task-irrelevant thoughts, the results also suggested the need to take into account the concurrent development of mindfulness skills to prevent potential counterproductive effects, such as on performance worries (Farias & Wikholm, 2016; Gardner & Moore, 2012; Lindsay & Creswell, 2017). As such,
Funding
This research was supported by a grant (no.15r16) from the Ministère chargé des Sports (i.e., the French Ministry of Sports) and INSEP (i.e., the French Institute of Sport).
Declaration of competing interest
Julie Doron and Marc Jubeau have received research grants from French Ministry of Sports. Quentin Rouault and Marjorie Bernier have collaborated to this research project. All the authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the athletes and coaches who took part in the study, the French Federation of Badminton for organization support, Anthony Mette who conducted placebo intervention based on relaxation sessions, Maël Goisbault for qualitative data transcription and Jean-Philippe Lachaux for his expert advice on the protocol.
Julie DORON was, at the time of the first submission, a researcher at the French Institute of Sport (INSEP), Research Department, Laboratory of Sport, Expertise and Performance (EA 7370), Paris, France. She is now an associate professor at the University of Nantes, Laboratory Movement - Interactions - Performance (EA 4334), Faculty of Sport Sciences, Nantes, France. At the time of this research,
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Julie DORON was, at the time of the first submission, a researcher at the French Institute of Sport (INSEP), Research Department, Laboratory of Sport, Expertise and Performance (EA 7370), Paris, France. She is now an associate professor at the University of Nantes, Laboratory Movement - Interactions - Performance (EA 4334), Faculty of Sport Sciences, Nantes, France. At the time of this research,
Quentin ROUAULT was a Master student at the University of Nantes, Laboratory Movement - Interactions - Performance (EA 4334), Faculty of Sport Sciences, Nantes, France. He is now a consultant in sport psychology.
Marc JUBEAU is an associate professor at the University of Nantes, Laboratory Movement - Interactions - Performance (EA 4334), Faculty of Sport Sciences, Nantes, France.
Marjorie BERNIER is an associate professor at the University of Brest, CREAD (EA 3875), Faculty of Sport Sciences and Education, Brest, France.