Effect of Vipassana Meditation on Academic Stress among Adolescence
International Journal of Indian Psychology April 25, 2017 DOI: 10.25215/0403.015 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Non-randomized control group with pre-test/post-test design Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 50 |
| Population | Adolescents aged 15 to 18 |
| Intervention | Vipassana Meditation |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key points | Vipassana Meditation significantly reduced academic stress among adolescents. |
Abstract
The Present investigation is based on Research study undertaken to find out the ‘The Effect of Vipassana Meditation on Academic Stress among adolescence’. An experiment was conducted on 50 adolescence age 15 to 18 of non-randomized control group. Pre test post test design. For data collection tools Bisht Battery of Scale of Academic stress were used. we performed on two sample‘t’ test for the pree and post test. After that found our result to be significant. Analysis by two sample‘t’ test revealed that Vipassana Meditation was an effective practice to reduce Academic Stress of adolescence.
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