Journal of Advances in Sports and Physical Education (JASPE)
Volume-4 | Issue-08 | 182-185
Original Research Article
Effect of 14 Weeks of Mindfulness Meditation on Verbal Memory and Composite Memory of Male College Students
Sandip Bera, Dr. Nita Bandyopadhyay
Published : Aug. 17, 2021
Abstract
Meditation known as influential factor on many neurocognitive variables, memory is one of them. Studies have identified that meditation affects working memory. This study aimed to identify the effect of mindfulness meditation on verbal memory and composite memory. Twenty (n=20) male volunteered students age ranged between 21 to 29 years were taken from colleges and university of Kalyani, West Bengal, India. As the subjects were randomly divided into two groups and named as control Group and Experimental group. At first, Linearity, Homoscadasticity, and Normality of data were checked by Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Breusch-Pagan-Godfrey and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test respectively in SPSS 23 software. In present study the mean, standard deviation (SD), paired sample‘t’ test were used for observing the effect of meditation programme. Independent sample t test was also used to identify the base line difference between the groups. After fourteen weeks of mindful meditation practice significant improvements were seen in verbal memory and composite memory of the experimental group. The findings suggest that mindfulness meditation practice can improve verbal memory composite memory of an individual.