Highlights
- •Significant improvements were demonstrated in social anxiety, aggression, and stress levels of elementary school students with the school-based mind subtraction meditation program.
- •Although there was a reduction in depression for the meditation group, it was not statistically significant.
- •A school-based mind subtraction meditation program could be effective in improving psychosocial and behavioral aspects of mental health in elementary school children.
This study analyzed the effects of a school-based mind subtraction meditation program
on depression, social anxiety, aggression, and salivary cortisol levels of 42 elementary
school children in South Korea. The research design was a nonequivalent group comparison
with pretest and post-test. The experimental group was given 8 weeks of the meditation program. The results showed social anxiety, aggression, and
salivary cortisol levels were significantly lowered in the experimental group. This
demonstrated that the school-based mind subtraction meditation program could be effective
in improving psychosocial and behavioral aspects of mental health in elementary school
children.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: January 11, 2016
Accepted:
December 2,
2015
Received in revised form:
November 25,
2015
Received:
April 9,
2014
Footnotes
1This research was presented on May 3, 2014 at 2014 International Conference of Human Completion, UCLA, CA, USA.
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