영남대학교 심리학과
Department of Psychology, Yeungnam University, Daegu, Korea
Mindfulness-Based Reduction-Korea (MBSR-K) program is used in this study. This program is consisted of various meditative techniques and has frequently been used in medical settings with mixed patients. This study examined the effectiveness of 6-week MBSR program on the university students' anxiety and aggression. Seventy seven undergraduate students participated in the present study. Thirty five of these students who wanted to learn the meditation were selected for the intervention group and the remaining forty two were served as non-intervention control group. After finishing 6-week MBSR program, the experimental subject, when compared with the control group, showed significantly greater changes in term of reductions in trait-anxiety and physical aggression, linguistic aggression, anger and hostility. The research suggests that 6-week MBSR program appears to be a promising program to improve psychological symptoms in the university students. (Korean J Str Res 2007;15:43∼49)