단월드 명상수련이 스트레스 및 삶의 태도에 미치는 영향

Abstract

Stress, discussed from quality of life and psychological welfare was identified of physical diseases, aging, and growth development, and grew to explain every bodily and mind problems of modern people. Though there are several methods of managing stress, this researcher hopes to find solutions by researching how the meditation of Dahn yoga, one of the most representative meditations have influence on stress and attitudes on life. Conclusively, the interpretation would be that as the stress is managed further, and more positive the quality of life, hazards of being exposed to diseases and treatment would be more effective. Survey was conducted from September 14th to 2015 to September 25th 2015 on 180 participants of Dahn yoga meditation, and 100 people with no experience of participating in meditations, total of 280 people. In the actual analysis, excluding those who have not answered the survey or have answered the survey without diligence, 170 meditation participants and 97 people without experience of meditation was analyzed. The meditation participants were from 8 centers of the Dahn yoga in Gwangju and Jeonnam, and those who answered the surveys of meditation without experience were insurance workers, post service workers, and members of NGO.

The stress survey utilized here used a combination of 20 questions of the Wellness stress evaluation questionnaires developed by YMCA’s health program Wellness in 1980, and combinations of questions devised by this researcher (don’t like to move). The reason this researcher utilized Wellness stress evaluation questionnaire is to measure the exposure to general stress, not limited to specific areas. Also, the questionnaire regarding attitude of life was written by referring to the questionnaire regarding quality of life provided by Seoul As an Hospital’s sports health medicine center and those in other papers. The retrieved surveys for data analysis underwent standardization and encoding process to be analyzed by social survey statistics package SPSS Ver. 18.0, and the significance level of all statistics was set as 5%(α=.05). The following data analysis method was utilized in this research. Firstly, Cronbach’s α coefficient was utilized to measure the reliability of various variables. Thirdly, to research the comparison of the research variables ‘stress’ and ‘attitudes of life’, the variables regarding Dahn yoga meditation experience, independent t-test was conducted. Fourthly, to research the differences of research variables regarding the duration of Dahn world meditation, One-way ANOVA utilizing F testing was conducted. Fourthly, regarding items with significant differences in F testing, post-hoc testing was conducted. Post-hoc test conducted Duncan testing at significance level of 0.05, and was listed in the order of the highest variables to lower. Fifthly, on items with significant differences of F testing, post-hoc testing conducted Duncan testing at significance level of 0.05, and were listed in Alphabet ascending order from the highest evaluation. As a result, in stressed status according to meditation experiences, the stress awareness proportion of answerers without meditation experience was researched to be high, and among the answers of those with meditation experience, regarding relieving of stress and positive attitudes of life, the answers that it was very effective in relieving stress was 51.2% and it were effective was 44.1% that total of 95.3% people seemed to think that meditation was effective for relieving stress. In questions on whether meditation was effective for attitudes of life, 95.3% answered that it was effective that meditators of Dahn yoga seemed to be aware that meditation was effective for relieving stress and in attitudes of life. This researched researched the effect of Dahn yoga meditation on stress and attitudes of life and whether it may be utilized variously to prevent diseases and to heighten treatment effect. The results of this research is as follows. ‘Hypothesis 1. The experiment group would manage stress better compared to the comparison group’ was supported. ‘Hypothesis 2. The experiment group would have more positive attitudes of life compared to the comparison group’ was supported. Here, the Dahn yoga meditation influences the alleviation of stress and has a positive influence on attitudes of life to be able to be utilized in supportive role in prevention of diseases and treatment.