- Title
- Exploring the perceived wellbeing of adolescents participating in a mindfulness-based adolescent programme
- Creator
- Munro, Belinda Patricia
- Subject
- Mindfulness (Psychology) -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Adolescent psychotherapy -- Evaluation
- Date Issued
- 2021-04
- Date
- 2021-04
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/51361
- Identifier
- vital:43268
- Description
- Mindfulness techniques can potentially facilitate increased self-awareness, improve impulse control, decrease emotional reactivity to challenging events, and improve one’s subjective experience of wellbeing. As yet, research within the child and adolescent population are in its early stages (Dellbridge, 2002. This study explores and describes the perceived wellbeing of adolescents participating in a Mindfulness-based adolescent programme. It uses a multiple case study format, within a qualitative paradigm. The sample of five adolescents are from the NGO, Masifunde, in the Eastern Cape, and were selected through a nonprobability purposive sampling. Participants were between the ages of 16 and 18 years. Data was collected using a pre-test post-test format, administering the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM), the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-15), and the Emotional Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (ERQ-CA). After the Mindfulness-based Adolescent Programme (MBAP), individual semi-structured interviews were used to explore the adolescent’s perceived experience of the programme. Data was analysed using Braun and Clarke’s (2006) method of thematic analysis for qualitative data. The researchers reflective journaling was also used to expand on findings. Themes that emerged include the participants reflecting awareness of change in perceived experience of mindfulness, growing emotional awareness and regulation, development of attentional abilities, development of metacognition, reduction in physical discomfort, building and enhancing relationships, and experiencing body-based practices as most beneficial. The themes that came out most strongly were the reduction of physical discomfort, and positive experiences of body-based practices, which was understood by the researcher within the cultural heritage of participants.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Health Sciences, 2021
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- Format
- 1 online resource (xiv, 197 pages)
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- rights holder
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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