The Effectiveness of Mindfulness Group Training on Psychological Well-Being in Psychology Students
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Mindfulness Group Training, Psychological Well-Being, Psychology StudentsAbstract
Background and Objective: Examine the health and well-being status of students and to try to improve it, especially in psychology students is of great importance. As a result, this research was conducted with the aim of determine the effectiveness of mindfulness group training on psychological well-being in psychology students.
Methods and Materials: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and quasi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with experimental and control groups in terms of implementation method. The research population was psychology students of Tabaran Institute of Higher Education in the 2023-2024 academic years. The sample of this study was 40 students who were selected after reviewing the inclusion criteria with using a simple random sampling method and randomly were assigned into two equal groups. The experimental group trained 8 sessions of 90 minute with the mindfulness training protocol (Gallant et al., 2016) and the control group did not receive any intervention. The data of this research were collected with the psychological well-being questionnaire (Ryff, 1989) and analyzed with tests of chi-square and univariate analysis of covariance in SPSS version 27.
Findings: The results of this research showed that there was no significant difference in gender and age between the psychology students of the experimental and control groups (P>0.05). Also, mindfulness group training significantly increased psychological well-being in psychology students in the experimental group in compared to the control group (P<0.001).
Conclusion: According to the results of the present research, counselors, psychologists and therapists can use the mindfulness group training method along with other effective training methods to improving and promoting psychological well-being.
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