The effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction program on depression, anxiety and depression of female students

Subject Areas : Thoughts and Behavior in Clinical Psychology

Mehdi Dehestani ¹

1 - دپارتمان روان شناسی، دانشگاه پیام نور، تهران، ایران

Received: 2016-04-04 Accepted : 2016-04-04 Published : 2015-09-23

Keywords: Mindfulness, anxiety, depression and stress,

Abstract :

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way, focused both on the target and the time without any judgment. In mindfulness one learns to be aware of each moment of his mental state and to focus his attention on the mind in different ways. Mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral therapy intervention is considered as a third-generation or third wave. This study examines the effectiveness of mindfulness training on depression, anxiety and depression of female students, in Hamedan city. For this purpose, in a semi-experimental study with pretest-posttest and a control group, 40 female high school students of Hamadan were selected with available sampling method. They were randomly assigned into control and experimental groups. The experimental group underwent 8 sessions of 120 minutes of mindfulness-based stress reduction training. The groups were tested both at beginning and end of the study in terms depression, anxiety and stress. The results of covariance analysis indicated that teaching mindfulness-based intervention reduces the anxiety, depression and stress of students of experimental group. It seems we can reduce student’s anxiety, depression and stress with stress training management based on mindfulness.