Cyclic sighing buffers phase-level anxiety accumulation: controls' anxiety rose across the intervention while the breathwork group stayed near baseline¶
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q3 i? Under learning-as-usual, anxiety increased from baseline during intervention and remained elevated post; in the breathwork group it stayed near baseline, with credible group differences in trajectory. → Wang 2026
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Wang 2026¶
Wang, P., Ganushchak, L., Welie, C., & van Steensel, R. (2026). Learning proximal cyclic sighing buffers anxiety across learning moments and boredom across days. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-026-00446-2
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Bayesian multilevel phase-contrast analysis of EMA anxiety ratings from the 20-day RCT (6,281 observations, n = 84). Controls showed "anxiety increased from Baseline during the Intervention phase (β = 0.43, 95% HPD [0.25, 0.61])"; the breathwork group's intervention contrast was β = 0.10 and post contrast β = 0.02.
"In the control group, anxiety increased from Baseline during the Intervention phase (β = 0.43, 95% HPD [0.25, 0.61]) and remained elevated in the Post phase (β = 0.30, 95% HPD [0.08, 0.50])."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Academic Anxiety — outcome: instruction changes it
- Affect Regulation — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- Anxiety relief from cyclic sighing is time-locked to learning-proximal moments, with lower anxiety at 11:00/13:00/15:00 prompts than at 20:00 during intervention — related
- Cyclic sighing weakly buffers boredom accumulation across days but shows no within-day time-locked modulation — related
- During breathwork, heart-rate coupling to anxiety and enjoyment weakened, and this altered affect–physiology coupling persisted into the post-intervention phase — related
- Scheduled cyclic sighing is feasible to implement in everyday language-learning routines, with high EMA completion and breathwork session fidelity — related
- PP interventions reduce language learning anxiety — related
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