The Effectiveness of Mindfulness Training on Students' Anxiety and Psychological Well-being

  Introduction:The Mindfulness, consciousness and constant attention and purposeful in the present moment, along with admission, non-admission and separating yourself from the mind. The present study aimed at determination of the effectiveness of the mindfulness Training on decreased anxiety and increased psychological well-being of students Methods: In this research, a semi-experimental design with pretest-posttest and control group was used. For this purpose, a total of 30 out of 325students was selected from Parsabad Moghan Branch, Islamic Azad University (Parsabad Moghan Town, Iran). The selected subjects who had a higher score in anxiety test were divided into experimental and control groups. The Mindfulness was provided for experimental group for 8 sessions. Participants of these two groups completed the Catell’s anxiety questionnaire and Reef’s psychological well-being questionnaire in two steps (before and after therapy). For data analysis, multivariate covariance analysis and spss 20 was used.  Results: The results showed that the Mindfulness Training decreases anxiety(F=13/063,  P < 0.05)   and increases psychological well-being (F= 9/963,P <0.05). Conclusion:The Mindfulness By increasing awareness and attention in the present moment, observing non-affiliation and Non-conditional acceptance of phenomena, separating yourself from the mind, Reduce the old show, and the power of the commands of the mind and reducing the activity from habits, It reduces anxiety and increases psychological well-being. Therefore, it is suggested that mindfulness as a quality method of living in the present moment to reduce the anxiety and promote the psychological well-being of students.