Mindfulness, happiness, and anxiety in a sample of college students before and after taking a meditation course
Journal of American College Health May 5, 2020 Claire G. Crowley, L. Kapitula, Dana Munk
College students who took a semester-long experiential meditation course reported greater increases in mindfulness and subjective happiness, and greater decreases in anxiety, compared to students in a non-meditation psychosocial class. The meditation group comprised 74 students and the comparison group 73 students. Mindfulness was measured with the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale, anxiety with the State Trait Anxiety Inventory, and happiness with the Subjective Happiness Scale. The findings suggest that a meditation course can improve well-being among college students.