Compassion Meditation Höjer Communal Mål - en Experimentell Studie på Gymnasieelever i Skåne
(2020) PSYK11 20192Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- Sweden is witnessing a shortage of labor within the social and healthcare sector. A viable option that could bring Sweden one step closer to a solution is to raise the populations' communal goals. Our study aims to explore if compassion meditation, a method that aims to cultivate compassion can raise communal goals amongst Swedish high school students. Within this study, 250 students attending the department of social science and natural science programs participated. The participants were randomized into one of three groups: an experimental group that listened to a guided compassion meditation, a control group that listened to relaxation music, and a control group that did not listen to anything. All participants were asked to rate their... (More)
- Sweden is witnessing a shortage of labor within the social and healthcare sector. A viable option that could bring Sweden one step closer to a solution is to raise the populations' communal goals. Our study aims to explore if compassion meditation, a method that aims to cultivate compassion can raise communal goals amongst Swedish high school students. Within this study, 250 students attending the department of social science and natural science programs participated. The participants were randomized into one of three groups: an experimental group that listened to a guided compassion meditation, a control group that listened to relaxation music, and a control group that did not listen to anything. All participants were asked to rate their stress levels and communal and agentic goals. As predicted our results display that the experimental group rated communal goals significantly higher when compared with the control group which did not listen to any soundtrack. Furthermore, the experimental and control group (relaxation) rated their stress levels lower in comparison with the other control group. Additional studies are required to understand compassion meditation and its effects on communal goals. Furthermore, it would be interesting to examine if there are any lasting long term effects on communal goals due to a continuous practice of compassion meditation. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Bristen på personal inom människorelaterade yrken som till exempel vård och omsorg är idag ett problem som behöver lösas. En möjlig lösning skulle kunna vara att höja individers communal yrkesmål (vilja att arbeta med människor). Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka om compassion meditation, en metod som syftar till att höja medkänsla/medlidande, kan höja gymnasieelevers communal yrkesmål. I studien deltog 250 gymnasieelever från samhällsvetenskapliga- och naturvetenskapliga program i Skåne. Deltagarna randomiserades på individnivå till tre olika grupper: en experimentgrupp som fick lyssna på compassion meditation, en kontrollgrupp som fick lyssna på avslappningsmusik och en kontrollgrupp som inte lyssnade på någonting. Deltagarna... (More)
- Bristen på personal inom människorelaterade yrken som till exempel vård och omsorg är idag ett problem som behöver lösas. En möjlig lösning skulle kunna vara att höja individers communal yrkesmål (vilja att arbeta med människor). Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka om compassion meditation, en metod som syftar till att höja medkänsla/medlidande, kan höja gymnasieelevers communal yrkesmål. I studien deltog 250 gymnasieelever från samhällsvetenskapliga- och naturvetenskapliga program i Skåne. Deltagarna randomiserades på individnivå till tre olika grupper: en experimentgrupp som fick lyssna på compassion meditation, en kontrollgrupp som fick lyssna på avslappningsmusik och en kontrollgrupp som inte lyssnade på någonting. Deltagarna fick skatta sin upplevda stressnivå och inställning till avslappning och meditation samt skatta påståenden som mäter communal och agentic (statusinriktade) yrkesmål. Resultatet visade att de som lyssnat på compassion meditation skattade signifikant högre på communal yrkesmål jämfört med kontrollgruppen som inte lyssnade på ljudklipp. Resultatet visade även att de som lyssnade på meditationen respektive avslappningsmusiken upplevde en lägre stressnivå än kontrollgruppen som inte lyssnat på något ljudklipp. Ytterligare studier behövs för att förstå compassion meditation och dess effekter på communal yrkesmål. Det hade varit intressant att i framtida studier undersöka effekten av ett kontinuerligt utövande av compassion meditation på communal yrkesmål. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/9003047
- author
- Hägerklint, Emma LU ; Sollvén, Annie LU and Tamas, Alexandru LU
- supervisor
-
- Una Tellhed LU
- organization
- alternative title
- Compassion Meditation Increases Communal Goals - an Experimental Study on High School Students in Skåne
- course
- PSYK11 20192
- year
- 2020
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- compassion meditation, communal, yrkesmål, medkänsla, stress
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9003047
- date added to LUP
- 2020-01-27 13:44:09
- date last changed
- 2020-04-20 08:55:32
@misc{9003047,
abstract = {{Sweden is witnessing a shortage of labor within the social and healthcare sector. A viable option that could bring Sweden one step closer to a solution is to raise the populations' communal goals. Our study aims to explore if compassion meditation, a method that aims to cultivate compassion can raise communal goals amongst Swedish high school students. Within this study, 250 students attending the department of social science and natural science programs participated. The participants were randomized into one of three groups: an experimental group that listened to a guided compassion meditation, a control group that listened to relaxation music, and a control group that did not listen to anything. All participants were asked to rate their stress levels and communal and agentic goals. As predicted our results display that the experimental group rated communal goals significantly higher when compared with the control group which did not listen to any soundtrack. Furthermore, the experimental and control group (relaxation) rated their stress levels lower in comparison with the other control group. Additional studies are required to understand compassion meditation and its effects on communal goals. Furthermore, it would be interesting to examine if there are any lasting long term effects on communal goals due to a continuous practice of compassion meditation.}},
author = {{Hägerklint, Emma and Sollvén, Annie and Tamas, Alexandru}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Compassion Meditation Höjer Communal Mål - en Experimentell Studie på Gymnasieelever i Skåne}},
year = {{2020}},
}