As digital devices become increasingly integrated into daily life, the landscape of mental health care and self-regulation is changing. Online platforms, mobile applications, and virtual environments now offer opportunities to deliver mindfulness training at scale, supporting individuals experiencing stress, anxiety, depression, and burnout. Understanding how digital delivery influences psychological processes such as attention, emotional regulation, and self-awareness is essential for designing interventions that promote genuine well-being. We invite researchers to explore how digital platforms may both support and impede mindfulness, evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness applications, and propose innovative ways to incorporate mindfulness into digital literacy.

We welcome original research covering topics such as:

• Digital mindfulness-based interventions for stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms
• The effectiveness of mobile apps and online programs in promoting emotional regulation and resilience
• Mechanisms of change in technology-mediated mindfulness training
• User engagement, adherence, and accessibility in digital mental health tools
• Mindfulness and digital behavior: the impact of constant connectivity on focus, presence, and well-being
• Cross-cultural considerations and inclusiveness in digital mindfulness interventions
• Measurement systems, such as scales on the mindful use of technology and ranges of satisfaction with technology-based mindfulness interventions

This Collection aims to advance understanding of how mindfulness practices can be meaningfully integrated into an increasingly digital world.

All manuscripts submitted to this journal, including those submitted to collections and special issues, are assessed in line with our editorial policies and the journal’s peer-review process. Reviewers and editors are required to declare competing interests and can be excluded from the peer review process if a competing interest exists.

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being.

BMC Psychology is calling for submissions to our Collection on the social, cultural, and systemic influences shaping wellbeing in sport environments across diverse global contexts. Athlete mental health has emerged as a critical area of research and practice, yet much of the existing literature has been grounded in Western, individual-centered frameworks that emphasize internal experiences and one-to-one interventions. Increasingly, there is recognition that wellbeing in sport is deeply embedded within relationships, organizational cultures, and broader social systems, particularly in contexts shaped by collectivist values, shared identity, and moral responsibility.

This Collection seeks to foreground Eastern and collectivist perspectives while fostering dialogue across global knowledge traditions. Rather than positioning any single framework as universal, we aim to explore how athlete mental health is constructed, experienced, and supported across different cultural, organizational, and institutional settings. Particular attention is given to how sport systems, coaching environments, and social relationships influence wellbeing, distress, help-seeking, and recovery. We also encourage work that reflects a strong scientist–practitioner orientation, bridging research, applied practice, and policy, and emphasizing collaboration among scholars, practitioners, athletes, coaches, and organizations.

A defining feature of this Collection is its recognition of diversity within Eastern cultural contexts. We encourage contributions that move beyond treating Eastern perspectives as a single category and instead examine how different traditions, values, and social expectations shape athlete experiences in distinct ways. Variations in moral frameworks, relational obligations, discipline norms, and culturally specific meanings of endurance, sacrifice, and achievement may influence how athletes understand distress, cope with challenges, and navigate recovery. By exploring both cross-cultural and intra-cultural differences, this Collection aims to deepen and nuance current global conversations.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Athlete mental health in collectivist, relational, family-centered, or community-based sport cultures
• Organizational culture and mental health in elite sport systems
• Coaching climates, leadership, team structures, and institutional influences on wellbeing
• Athlete career development, transitions, dual careers, retirement, deselection, and post-sport adjustment
• Cultural identity, belonging, stigma, and help-seeking in sport
• Eastern philosophical perspectives relevant to mental health, wellbeing, and human flourishing in sport
• Comparative analyses of different Eastern cultural contexts and their implications for athlete mental health
• Intra-Eastern cultural differences in values such as discipline, shame, relational obligation, achievement pressure, and social comparison in sport
• Indigenized, culturally responsive, or decolonizing approaches to athlete mental health

We invite contributions that expand conceptual, methodological, and applied perspectives in this field. By bringing together diverse voices and approaches, this Collection seeks to challenge assumptions, broaden understanding, and support more inclusive and context-sensitive models of care for athletes worldwide.

All manuscripts submitted to this journal, including those submitted to collections and special issues, are assessed in line with our editorial policies and the journal’s peer-review process. Reviewers and editors are required to declare competing interests and can be excluded from the peer review process if a competing interest exists.

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being and SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities.