Anxiety And Adjustment In Relation To Mindfulness Therapy Among Adolescents
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
The Present study tries to explore the effect of Mindfulness Therapy on Anxiety & Adjustment among adolescents. Anxiety is a displeasing feeling of fear and concern while adjustment is the ability to adapt oneself according to environmental demands. The present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of Mindfulness Therapy on Anxiety reduction & improving the levels of adjustment among adolescents. For this data was collected randomly from Ganna Kishan College, Mohammadi Lakhimpur Khiri District U.P. on 100 adolescents (50 Males and 50 females). Sinha Comprehensive Anxiety Test (SCAT) by Sinha & Sinha (1961) & Adjustment Inventory for College Students (AICS) developed by Sinha & Singh (2005) were utilized to measure Anxiety & Adjustment of the respondents respectively. The Intervention Programme (Mindfulness Therapy) proceeded through 12 sessions. The respondents were given 12 sessions for Mindfulness Therapy. Each session consisted of 40 minutes. The Result of the present study revealed some significant finding indicating that Mindfulness Therapy was significantly effective for Anxiety reduction and for improving quality of total adjustment & for its various dimensions such as Home, Health, Social, Educational and Emotional adjustment among adolescents.
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Dr. Neeta Gupta, Neharshi Srivastava
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