A Correlational Study Between Mindfulness and Depression Among College Students

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between Mindfulness Attention Awareness and Depression among college going students. Depression is a disorder of mood that affects a person’s capacity to think clearly; undermines motivation to act; alters intimate bodily functioning, such as sleeping and eating. Mindfulness refers to the ability to focus on the present internal and external experience with non-judge mental and non-response attitudes. Mindfulness could help the individuals to give up depressive rumination.  Descriptive survey method was employed to analyse the relationship between mindfulness and depression among the college going students. A sample of 240 students was taken randomly from a P.G college, Panchkula with a mean age of approx. 20 yrs. To conduct the research ‘The Back Depression Inventory-II’ and Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale were used to assess the relationship between both the variables. The results of the study showed a negative correlation between mindfulness and depression.