This article explores Jamaican secondary school principals' use of mindfulness meditation as a spiritual well-being strategy to manage their work-related stress and anxiety.,The author used qualitative semi-structured interviews to collect the data from 12 Jamaican secondary school principals working in schools supporting rural, urban and inner-city school communities. Thematic coding of the analyzed data was used to understand how principals deal with their work-related stress and anxiety.,The findings indicate that Jamaican school principals are experiencing work-related stress and anxiety as a result of work intensification, and use mindfulness meditation/prayer as a spiritual coping strategy. The data indicate that principals' primary source of support is their spiritual belief – faith in God and mindfulness meditation/prayer – when dealing with issues related to well-being.,This article explores the use of mindfulness meditation as a non-secular coping strategy, and focuses on an understudied area of educational administration research: Jamaican school principals' well-being. The findings can help inform future education and health policy around occupational health and well-being for professionals, and lay the foundation for greater studies on principal well-being in Jamaican and the Caribbean more generally.

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“上帝是我的医生”：正念冥想/祷告是牙买加学校校长应对工作压力和焦虑的精神健康应对策略

本文探讨了牙买加中学校长将正念冥想作为一种管理他们与工作相关的压力和焦虑的精神健康策略的方法。作者使用定性半结构化访谈收集了12位牙买加中学校长的数据。支持农村，城市和城市中心学校社区的学校。分析数据的主题编码用于了解校长如何应对与工作相关的压力和焦虑。研究结果表明，牙买加学校校长由于工作强度的提高而遭受与工作相关的压力和焦虑，并使用正念冥想/祷告是一种精神上的应对策略。数据表明校长 支持的主要来源是他们的精神信念–信仰上帝和正念冥想/祷告–处理与幸福相关的问题。本文探讨了正念冥想作为一种非世俗的应对策略的使用，并着重研究了教育行政研究领域：牙买加学校校长的健康状况。这些发现有助于为专业人员提供有关职业健康和福祉的未来教育和卫生政策，并为在牙买加和加勒比地区更广泛地研究主要福祉奠定基础。