The Effectiveness of Forgiveness Meditation Intervention in the Group of Emerging Adult Students

Abstract

Evidence of the effectiveness of forgiveness meditation intervention among college students in ‘emerging adulthood’ is still limited. This study aims to examine the effect of forgiveness meditation intervention toward forgiveness, self-forgiveness, forgiveness of others, and forgiveness of situations among college students. This study used a quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design with measurements follow-up two weeks after treatment ended. The subjects were “emerging adulthood”, as many as 9 college students from Diponegoro University, Indonesia (MAge = 20.67; SDAge = 0.5; Female = 77.8%). The results of quantitative analysis using statistical test of Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test between pretest and posttest showed a significant increase in forgiveness (z = -2.668, p .05). However, the test results between pretest and follow-up on these three variables were still significant, z = -2.668, p .05). The qualitative analysis and further discussions are also presented.

Keywords

• college student
• emerging adulthood
• forgiveness
• meditation