마음챙김명상 체험이 대학생의 자기연민에 미치는 영향

Abstract

Korean college students are those who have succeeded in going to college through intense competition. However, there are more and more cases in which these students appeal for helplessness and depression. Some people call it 'College Grade 2 Disease' because second year college students often experience this phenomenon. According to Neff, this tendency to judge and criticize oneself can be overcome by raising self-compassion, and mindfulness meditation is an effective way to raise self-compassion. Mindfulness meditation that accepts without judging one's own experience means acknowledging the painful experiences of oneself and others. The purpose of this study is to investigate how much self-compassion can be raised in Korean college students by mindfulness, and how such improved self-compassion is effective in eliminating the lethargy and depression of college students. For this purpose, about 10 times of mindfulness meditation classes were held for 21 freshmen. The result showed that there was a significant difference in self – kindness, common humanity, mindfulness, and over-identification, and there was no significant difference in self-criticism and isolation. The positive effect of mindfulness on self-affection and over-identification suggests that mindfulness can be effective in alleviating competition and anxiety. These results suggest that if a self-compassion program based on mindfulness meditation is opened as a regular full-time university course, more students will be able to help them overcome their self-criticism and depression.