Mindfulness And Coping Behavior Essay

Discussion As the aim of this research is to observe the effects of mindfulness on coping behaviours complying which the first hypothesis of research proposed is ‘mindfulness would significantly benefit a person’s coping behaviour’ and the second hypothesis is ‘mindfulness would reduce stress responses in the surveys’; the results of the research, however, fail to support both the hypotheses that mindfulness would significantly benefit a person’s coping behavior and mindfulness would reduce stress responses in the survey. The results revealed that mindfullness does not have any effect on coping human behaviour, however, there may be various approaches towards dealing with stress which most cultures have been following for thousands years.
The results of the survey are very important as a number of 478 undergraduate university students have participated. The results are also important due to the fact that the participants were from different cultures, countries, caste and creeds. The participants may be the best sample to study different approaches used by different …show more content…
The number of participants, their mental understanding towards understanding the survey questions and ability to respond to such questions are satisfactory in the research, however, the timing of the survey may have caused the inconsistency of the research. Other possible reasons may be the exercises contained in the tutorials and/or there may be lack of compatibility with the variables, tutorials and/or exercises. Since there are so many undergraduate participants in the test who are possibly from different cultural or lingual background, another possible reason may be the lack of understanding of the tutorials and/or the exercises in the tutorial. Communication barrier may also have played a role during tutorials and/or