Psychology in India
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 1and2

Preksha Meditation as an Intervention for Adjustment Problems in Elderly Women

  • Author:
  • Jaswant Singh Yadav1, Komal Tiwari2, USha Chelani3
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 54 to 61

1Research Scholar, Dept. of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

2Research Scholar, Dept. of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

3Faculty, TEPSE & HEPSN Center, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

Online published on 20 September, 2019.

Abstract

The main aim of this study was to show the impact of Preksha Meditation for adjustment problems in elderly women. For this a purposive sample of 60 elderly women was taken from anuvibha Kendra, vridhha ashram and old age homes of Jaipur city. The adjustment level was measured using Old-Age Adjustment Inventory (Shashad Hussain and Jasbir Kaur, 2005) which has 6 sub dimensions which measures health, home, social, marital, emotional and financial adjustment.

Study was divided into pre-intervention, intervention and post intervention phase. Subjects were put through preksha meditation intervention for 45 minutes per day for four months. In post intervention they were measured again on the same test. ‘T ’test was used to compare the means of both groups. Results show that there is a significant difference in the levels of adjustment on all sub dimensions of elderly women post preksha meditation.

Keywords

Preksha Meditation, Elderly Women, Adjustment