Effect of Meditation on Adjustment of Secondary School Students
Dr. Baljit Kaur -
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research May 21, 2024 DOI: 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i03.10038 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Controlled experimental study Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 200 |
| Population | Secondary school students in Amritsar District |
| Intervention | Meditation |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key findings | The meditation technique practiced by the experimental group was associated with improved adjustment in home, society, health, and education. The authors report a significant effect of meditation on adjustment among secondary school students. |
Abstract
In today’s competitive world is growing world where the competition in almost every field which creates its own stress and disturbances, it is important to have good health for better performance. Meditation is a good way to reach a state of mental equanimity where responses to favorable or unfavorable external events are well under the individual’s control and responses are moderate in intensity. Meditation help to improves mental and physical health and maintain happiness and adjustment with his self and his environment. The present study was undertaken with the purpose of studying effect of meditation on adjustment of secondary school students. The study was conducted on a sample of 200 secondary school students of Amritsar District. 100 as control group and 100 as experimental group was selected for the study in two schools. The result indicated that the meditation technique employed by the experimental group helped them to improve their adjustment in home, society, health and education. The significant effect of mediation was found on adjustment of secondary school students.
Comparable studies
Other experimental studies on meditation, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being. Cancer patients (clinical intervention study) | 2003 | Mixed methods: scale development, correlational, quasi-experimental, laboratory, experience-sampling, and clinical intervention study | |
| Loving-kindness meditation increases social connectedness. | 2008 | Controlled laboratory experiment | |
| Mindfulness and mind-wandering: Finding convergence through opposing constructs. | 2012 | Two studies: correlational study and experimental study | |
| Mental Training Enhances Attentional Stability: Neural and Behavioral Evidence | 2009 | Experimental study | |
| Mindfulness meditation and substance use in an incarcerated population. Incarcerated population | 2006 | Quasi-experimental with treatment-as-usual control condition |