The Effects of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Group Counseling Program to Enhance Flow in Playing Music of Music Students

Abstract

This study is the quasi-experimental research. Its purposes were to 1) comparing the flow in playing music of students majoring in musiac between before and after attending mindfulness based cognitive therapy group counseling program; and 2) comparing the flow in playing music of students majoring in music between the experiment group, who attended a group counseling program using mindfulness based cognitive therapy and the control group, who did not participate in the program. The sample consisted of 24 undergraduate students majoring in music, who met the inclusion criteria. The sample was divided into 12 students in the experiment group and other 12 in the control group. The research used a pretest-posttest quasi experimental design. The research instruments were the flow in playing music measurement and the mindfulness based cognitive therapy group counseling program. The program was administered into 8 sessions with approximately 120 minutes each time. The data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, and t-test. The findings of this research were as followings: 1) the flow score of students majoring in music after attending the mindfulness based cognitive therapy group counseling program was higher than attendance before at .05 level of significant; and 2) the flow score of students majoring in music after attending the mindfulness based cognitive therapy group counseling program was higher than the control group’s scores at .05 level of significant.



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Chonthicha Hanaree, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
Amaraporn Surakarn, Srinakharinwirot University in Thailand
Supat Sanjamsai, Mahidol University in Thailand

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Conference: ACP2023
Stream: General Psychology

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To cite this article:
Hanaree C., Surakarn A., & Sanjamsai S. (2023) The Effects of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Group Counseling Program to Enhance Flow in Playing Music of Music Students ISSN: 2187-4743 – The Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences 2023 Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2187-4743.2023.20
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2187-4743.2023.20


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