Loving Kindness Meditation And Its Impact On Intergroup Anxiety

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Published: Sep 16, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53555/jrtdd.v6i9s(2).2276
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Loving Kindness Meditation Intergroup Anxiety College Students

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Suman Grigary Thomas
Shanmukh V. Kamble

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Loving Kindness meditation is an age-old practise which has a lot of potential benefits for the practitioners. The present study was conducted to assess the impact of 30-days practice of Loving Kindness Meditation in reducing intergroup anxiety of college students. The study included an initial sample of 300 college students who were administered with Intergroup Anxiety Scale Short Form. 80 students (Men= 36, Women =44), who scored low on the scale were randomly allotted to either an experimental group (Loving Kindness Meditation group) or a control group; where the former received treatment for 30 days while the latter did not receive any. The hypotheses were tested using paired t-test and the results of the study suggested that there was a significant decrease in the intergroup anxiety among the participants of experimental group post the treatment while similar change was not identified among the participants of control group.

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Suman Grigary Thomas, & Shanmukh V. Kamble. (2023). Loving Kindness Meditation And Its Impact On Intergroup Anxiety. Journal for ReAttach Therapy and Developmental Diversities, 6(9s(2), 1707–1709. https://doi.org/10.53555/jrtdd.v6i9s(2).2276
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Vol. 6 No. 9s(2) (2023)
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Author Biographies

Suman Grigary Thomas

Research Scholar, Post Graduate Department of Studies and Research in Psychology, Karnatak University Dharwad, Karnataka.

Shanmukh V. Kamble

Professor, Post Graduate Department of Studies and Research in Psychology, Karnatak University Dharwad, Karnataka.

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