A 10-week mindfulness programme (Flow Meditation) reduced impulsivity, improved mood, and lowered pre-competition anxiety in athletes. Compared to a wait-list control group, the intervention group showed large to very large reductions in cognitive, motor, and unplanned impulsivity, as well as in tension, depression, anger, somatic anxiety, and cognitive anxiety. Mindfulness appears to help athletes cope with high sport pressure and manage competition-related stress.
A Spanish version of the Body Awareness Questionnaire (BAQ) showed good reliability and validity in a sample of 281 Spanish adults. The scale had a Cronbach's alpha of 0.82, indicating good internal consistency. Positive correlations with body appreciation and self-compassion, and no correlation with sexual satisfaction, supported convergent and discriminant validity. The Spanish BAQ also distinguished between meditators and non-meditators, supporting its conceptual validity. Confirmatory factor analysis supported a two-factor structure rather than the one- or four-factor models of the original English version. The scale is suitable for further study in clinical and non-clinical Spanish populations.