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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of negative life events on anxiety and depression of experienced meditation. A total of 193 subjects who experienced meditation participated. For the measurement, the scales were used for the demography of the subjects, meditation motivation scale, meditation duration and performance scale, negative life events scale, Korean-Beck Anxiety Inventory (K-BAI), and Beck Depression Inventory (K-BDI-II). The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, Pearson correlation analysis, and regression analysis using SPSS 22.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). The results of the study were as follows. Meditation motivation was significantly higher in males than in females (t(193)=3.085, p<.05). Participants who had more than one year of meditation experience had significantly higher self-compassion (t(193)=-3.429, p<.05) and self-seeking(t(193)=-2.501, p<.05) than those with less than one year of experience. Negative life events were significantly associated with anxiety (F=22.39, p<.001) and depression (F=4.22, p<.001). This study is meaningful in that it was the first finding on the negative life events, anxiety and depression of those who experienced meditation in Korea.