Question

What type of t-test should I use to for the topic, " Does mindfulness meditation affect college students' anxiety?"

Answer 1

Mindfulness meditation is different from meditation. Although mindfulness meditation and meditation are taken as the same thing, it is not the same things these are two different ways of meditations. Meditations want one to be blank and not to focus on anything just concentrate on the breath. Mindfulness meditation wants one to live in the present. The mindfulness meditation takes one to the meditational stage. Mindfulness itself tells us that our mind is full of thoughts of the past, present, and future. Let the thoughts come and go we have to concentrate on the present.

If a person is doing mindfulness meditation he /she can choose a peaceful place and sit erect concentrating on the thoughts, let the thoughts enter the mind, and go be non-judgmental and pay attention in the present moment.

As one concentrates there are numbers of thoughts that start coming in mind let it come, pay attention without being judgemental. Mindfulness takes one to the meditation stage as the thoughts come and go the mind starts refreshing it produces a positive effect on our pleasure hormone amygdala. It reduces mental anxiety and improves flexibility and acts as a cover against cognitive aging.

The college students suffer stress that leads to anxiety, it increases during the examination time, and many students suffer mental illness due to anxiety they complain about being unable to concentrate or forget what they have studied. The mindfulness mediation is a useful tool for the college students, as it leads to meditation and mediation concentrate on our breath, thus it improves oxygen level in our bloodstream, relaxing our muscles and producing happy feelings.

Yes, mindfulness meditation help college students overcome anxiety, it helps in improving the mental and physical health of the students.

To calculate anxiety in college students independent sample t-test is better as it will help in statistically calculating the anxiety by using control and experimental group.