Does Breathing Meditation Reduces Stress Levels for Students Between Late Teenage and Early Adulthood

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10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_116How to use a DOI?

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Breathing meditation; stress management; adolescent; emerging adulthood

Abstract

There is a high prevalence of stress among young adults in their late teens and early twenties. Most of them are high school students or post-secondary students. Therefore, this issue sparked our interest in examining the effectiveness of a new type of stress reduction method that has become popular recently—formal meditation. In our experimental design, 60 participants were randomly assigned to two groups, who all agreed to participate. The first group of participants was asked to answer a standardized stress level survey before and after they listened to the meditation. The second group of participants was asked to answer the standardized stress level survey before and after “12 min of free time”, the second group of participants was asked to continue doing things in their daily routine as usual during this 12 min-period. The intervention meditation used in our experiment is breath meditation, which focuses mainly on guiding people’s attention to their breathing. This meditation video appeared to reduce stress levels in an overall positive manner. Therefore, we believe that this self-help intervention can provide people with stress complaints with easy access to information and assistance.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yumeng Chu
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/07/11
TI  - Does Breathing Meditation Reduces Stress Levels for Students Between Late Teenage and Early Adulthood
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 891
EP  - 897
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_116
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_116
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