Brief ReportEffect of a Yoga Based Meditation Technique on Emotional Regulation, Self-compassion and Mindfulness in College Students
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Background
Emotion regulation is defined as “the extrinsic and intrinsic processes that are responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and modifying emotional reactions, especially their intensive and temporal features, to accomplish one's goals.” It is influenced by a range of systems including neurophysiological, physical, cognitive, behavioural, and social systems. Research in the field of emotion regulation among adolescent is steadily increasing over the past decade.1 Reappraisal and suppression are the
Subject
Seventy-two healthy female volunteers with the age varied from 18 to 25 years were recruited from a residential college in Odisha, India, based on the following inclusion and exclusion criteria. Healthy female subjects with the age of 18 years and above, who is willing to participate in the study, were included in the study. Subjects with the history of any systemic and mental illness, under regular medication for any disease, chronic smoking, chronic alcoholism, during menstruation, pregnancy,
Result
Of 100 subjects, 28 subjects did not fulfil the criteria and thus not included in the study. Recruited 72 subjects were undergone 2 weeks of MEMT practice and completed the study. Results of this study showed a significant increase in the cognitive reappraisal of ERQ, positive affect of PANAS, MAAS, and self-compassion scores; and a significant reduction in the expressive suppression of ERQ, and negative affect of PANAS scores after the practice of MEMT compared to its baseline (Fig. 1).
Discussion
The emotional imbalance is quite common and challenging in college students. Evidence suggests that yoga practice improve emotion regulation among school students.1 MEMT is a yoga-based meditation technique developed to regulate the emotions among the regular practitioners. However, there is a lack of scientific evidence reporting the effect of MEMT on emotional regulation in college students. Hence, the present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of MEMT on emotional regulation in
Conclusion
Results of this study suggest that practice of MEMT is effective in improving emotional regulation, positive affects, self-compassion, and mindfulness while in reducing negative affects among college students.
Source of funding
Nil.
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