Exploring the Influence of Mindfulness on Emotional Competence, Anxiety Management and Psychological Well Being among College Students

Abstract

Humans have various roles to play during a span of their lifetime, and student life is a time full of opportunities and future goal planning where hard work and experiences are measured by the level of achievement. College comes as a big change in any students life, both males and females lives. The present study was done to study the effect of mindfulness on emotional competence, anxiety management and psychological well being of college students. For this purpose 120 college students ( 60 female and 60 male) between the ages of 18 to 25 were taken from urban areas of Delhi NCR, India. Emotional competence scale by Dr Harish Sharma, Beck anxiety inventory , positive and negative affect schedule and mindfulness attention awareness scale were taken as tools to collect data and these questionnaires were given to participants, and they were asked to fill them honesty. The results depicted that for females mindfulness was negatively correlated with anxiety and emotional competence, and positively correlated with psychological positive negative affect. For males mindfulness was positively correlated with anxiety and emotional competence, and negatively correlated with psychological positive negative affect. This study further recommends other researchers to keep different age and geographical scales when further taking up this topic for research in future.