IMPACT OF MINDFULNESS BASED COPING STRATEGIES ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN RAWALPINDI

Abstract

Mindfulness is a state of mind adopted from Buddhist philosophy has been widely applied to improve focus and awareness. Mindfulness based coping strategies is a set of intentional practices that combine mindfulness techniques with coping skills to manage stress, anxiety or other challenging emotion, wellbeing. The main purpose of this study was to find out the impact of mindfulness based coping strategies on academic performance at undergraduate student in Rawalpindi. The primary objective of the study to analyze the impact of mindfulness-based coping strategies on academic performance of undergraduate students in Rawalpindi. The quantitative nature of research design was used. The target population of the study was 3276 undergraduate students from 7 universities of Rawalpindi named as Arid Agriculture University, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi Women University, Comsats University, University of Wah, National University of Medical Sciences ,NUML university. The researcher employed the simple random sampling technique. The sample of this study was 342 undergraduate students. Self-made questionnaire was used to collect the data. Pilot testing was also done on forty students to check the reliability of instrument and the research tool was validated by experts. The main finding of the study showed that regression analysis indicated no statistically significant impact of MBCS and academic performance, as all p-values were greater than 0.05. Mindfulness-based strategies are recommended for improving students' mental well-being, not for directly increasing academic performance.