Researchers

Study

Participants

Areas of improvement

Abel [51]

60 days BY challenge with pre and post measurements

N = 22; 17 Females, 5 Males

Core self-evaluation, intrinsic motivation, life satisfaction.

Hewett, et al. [53]

8-week BY program in an uncontrolled study

51 participants aged 20-54 years recruited through snowball sampling.

Mindfulness and perceived stress.

Medina, et al. [54]

8-week BY intervention in a randomized control study

52 Women high in emotional eating in response to stress.

Distress tolerance (with specific reductions in distress absorption), reduction in emotional eating.

Hopkins, et al. [54]

8 weeks BY intervention in a randomized control trial

52 Women at risk for obesity and related illness.

Reduction in cortisol reactivity to stress and affective eating- decreased binge eating frequency and eating to cope with negative affect.

Hewett, et al. [55]

16 weeks BY intervention in a randomized control trial

63 participants: Sedentary, physically inactive, stressed adults.

Perceived stress, general self-efficacy, and health related QOL.

Rocque, et al. [56]

8 weeks BY intervention in a randomized controlled trial

53 women with unipolar depressive disorder.

Significant decrease in scores of hamilton rating scale for depression mediated with reductions in ruminations.