Understanding Mindfulness in Clinical Perspective

Abstract

The present study investigates the effect of Mindfulness practice on behavioral problems in adults. For this purpose, model adjusts for the correlation between repeated observations on the same participants before and after and allow for the inclusion of the participants with the missing data. Pair vise data will be referred to as mindfulness effect.Pre-test and Post-test Mean, Standard deviation, Standard error, coefficient of correlation and t-test will be computed on measures of behavioral problems. Adult Self Report (ASR), a behavioral check list developed by Achenbach and Rescorla (2003) was used to assess behavioral problems in the sample n=50, age range (20 to 50 years). Results indicated significant difference in pre and post measures. Further, after Mindfulness behavioral problems were found to be significantly low on measures by the ASR such as Anxious-depressed, withdrawn, somatic complaints, thought problems, attention problems, aggressive behavior, rule breaking behavior, intrusive, internalizing, externalizing and total problems. The findings of this study indicate the role of Mindfulness in nurturing a resilient factor against emotional and behavioral problems.