HUBUNGAN MINDFULNESS DENGAN KECEMASAN MASYARAKAT SELAMA PANDEMI COVID-19
Arif Rakhman, Dwi Budi Prastiani, Isni Fauziyah
JURNAL PENELITIAN TERAPAN KESEHATAN December 29, 2022 DOI: 10.33088/jptk.v9i2.297 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Quantitative descriptive correlational cross-sectional study Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 288 |
| Population | Adults in Jatimulya Village during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Measures | Five Facets of Mindfulness Questionnaire, Anxiety Questionnaire during the Covid-19 pandemic |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key findings | The authors report a statistically significant relationship between mindfulness and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic among Jatimulya Village adults (Kendall's Tau b, p = 0.000). They conclude that good mindfulness helps create awareness and attention for managing anxiety, and recommend that community members cultivate it. |
Abstract
At the beginning of 2020, the world was shocked by the Coronavirus Disease-19. This phenomenon causes changes in various aspects of life, such as health, economic, social, psychological, cultural, and more. The psychological response experienced by the community is a feeling of anxiety about their health. Anxiety can be managed properly through full awareness and attention to the conditions that are happening. Thus, it does not cause mental health problems. A state of awareness and attention in this pandemic moment called Mindfulness. This study aims to determine the relationship between mindfulness and anxiety during the Covid-19 pandemic in the community. This is quantitative research with a descriptive correlation design and a cross sectional approach. The population of this study is adult in Jatimulya Village. The sampling technique that used was simple random with a total of 288 respondents. The data collection that used was Five Facets of Mindfulness Questionnaire and the Anxiety Questionnaire during the Covid-19 pandemic. The results of the Kendall's Tau b analysis obtained that p-value is 0.000 < 0.05. It can be concluded that there is a relationship between Mindfulness and Anxiety during the Covid-19 pandemic among Jatimulya Village community. Community should have a good mindfulness in order to create awareness and attention in managing anxiety. Keywords: mindfulness, anxiety, pandemic Covid-19
Comparable studies
Other cross-sectional and survey studies on meditation, most cited first.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Construct Validity of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire in Meditating and Nonmeditating Samples Experienced meditators and nonmeditating comparison groups | 2008 | Cross-sectional study | |
| Neural Correlates of Dispositional Mindfulness During Affect Labeling Adult participants | 2007 | Observational cross-sectional | n = 27 |
| Assessing mindfulness in children and adolescents: Development and validation of the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM). School-aged children and adolescents | 2011 | Cross-sectional validation study | n = 1,413 |
| Mindfulness and self-compassion as predictors of psychological wellbeing in long-term meditators and matched nonmeditators Experienced meditators and demographically matched nonmeditators | 2012 | Cross-sectional study | n = 152 |
| Mechanisms of Action in the Inverse Relationship Between Mindfulness and Psychological Distress Undergraduates | 2008 | Cross-sectional, correlational |