Impact of meditation on self-harm and aggression among adolescents girls

Pages: 227-233
Irfan Fayaz (Amity Institute of Behavioural and Allied Sciences, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh )

The present research tries to investigate the effect of intervention on aggression and self-harmthrough general meditation for peace, forgiveness, and gratitude. The present study tries to examine the effects of meditation on aggression and self-harm among adolescent girls of Kashmir. Pre and post interventional method was designed for (50) fifty adolescents girls, among them (n = 36) were subjected to experimental group and 14 were subjected to control group. Using convenient sampling method, one private school of Kashmir valley from Srinagar was selected for the research purpose. Two measures including Self Harm Inventory by Sansone, McLean, and Wiederman (1998) and Aggression questionnaire by Buss and Perry, was administered for pre and post assessment purpose. In experimental group three dimensions of aggression showed statistically significant difference on pre and post assessment scores i.e. physical aggression (t = 3.1, p<0.01), anger (t = 2.3, p<0.05) and hostility (2.8, p<0.01), no difference was seen on pre and post intervention scores of verbal aggression. Self harm was found to have statistically significant difference on pre and post assessment scores, i.e., (t = 3.177, p<0.01). on the other hand no difference was found on any dimension of aggression and self harm in control group. The study showed that by practicing meditation adolescents can manage aggressive and self-harm behaviours. Meditation decreased aggression and increased their quality of life by reducing their self-harm.It also helped them to reduce their aggressive behaviours through forgiveness and gratitude. By practicing meditation adolescent girls can improve quality of their life.