The Practicing Degree of Mindfulness for Public Secondary School Principals in Jordan and its Relation with Some Variables
Rawhieh Sa’ad Al Din Hamad, Rateb Salameh Al-Soud
Jordanian Educational Journal September 30, 2023 DOI: 10.46515/jaes.v8i4.449 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Survey Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 315 |
| Population | Public secondary school principals in Jordan |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key findings | Principals of Jordanian public secondary schools reported a high degree of mindfulness practice on a 34-item, four-category questionnaire. No significant differences at α=0.05 were found by gender or years of experience, but significant differences were found by academic qualification, favoring principals with higher studies. |
Abstract
The study aimed at revealing the practicing degree of mindfulness for the public secondary school principals in Jordan and its relation with some variables. The study population consisted of all (1389) principals of the public secondary schools. The study sample included (315) principals. For data gathering, a (34) items questionnaire has been developed, consisted of (4) categories: (Alertness to Distinction, Openness to Novelty, Orientation on the Present and Awareness of Multiple Perspectives). The results of the study showed that the practicing degree of mindfulness for public secondary school principals in Jordan was high. Furthermore, the results indicated that there were no significant differences at (α=0.05) in the practicing degree of mindfulness for public secondary school principals in Jordan, according to gender variable, and years of experience variable, but the study results showed that there were significant differences at (α=0.05) due to academic qualification variable, and the differences were in favor of (higher studies) academic qualification.
Comparable studies
Other cross-sectional and survey studies on meditation, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Citations in the library
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- AN ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC STUDY ON THE ZEN MEDITATION (ZAZEN) Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences December 1, 1966