Psychological Impact of COVID-19 Confinement and Its Relationship with Meditation Jiménez, Óliver Sánchez Sánchez, Laura del Carmen García-Montes, José M. Coronavirus COVID-19 Stress Anxiety Depressions Mindfulness Mental health Spain Psychological impact Confinement The authors would like to thank all the participants and the University of Almeria’s Third Generation Behaviour Therapy training program for their suggestions about the content of this article. The objective of this study was to evaluate the psychological impact of confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, considering any protective factors, such as the practice of meditation or self-compassion, and their relationship with different lifestyles and circumstances of adults residing in Spain. A cross-sectional study was done using an anonymous online survey in which 412 participants filled out the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-2; the Impact of Events Scale; and the Self-Compassion Scale-Short Form, reporting severe symptomatology of posttraumatic stress and mild anxiety and depression. Quality of cohabitation and age were found to be key variables in the psychological impact of confinement. The impact of confinement was more negative for those who reported very poor cohabitation as opposed to very good (F (3, 405) = 30.75, p ≤ 0.001, d = 2.44, r = 0.054) or for those under 35 years of age compared to those over 46 (F (2, 409) = 5.14, p = 0.006, d = 0.36). Practicing meditation was not revealed as a protective factor, but self-compassion was related to better cohabitation during confinement (F (3, 403) = 11.83, p ≤ 0.001, d = 1.05). These results could be relevant in designing psychological interventions to improve coping and mental health in other situations similar to confinement. 2020-11-10T10:10:31Z 2020-11-10T10:10:31Z 2020-09-11 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Jiménez, Ó.; Sánchez-Sánchez, L.C.; García-Montes, J.M. Psychological Impact of COVID-19 Confinement and Its Relationship with Meditation. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 6642. [doi:10.3390/ijerph17186642] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/64163 10.3390/ijerph17186642 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España MDPI