The Effect of Meditation by Quantum Method on Subjective Well-Being of the People of Bangladesh

Abstract

The present study was designed to investigate The Effect of Meditation by Quantum Method on Subjective Well-being (SWB) of the People of Bangladesh. A total of 307 respondents were used as subject in the study. They have a wide variety of age range, professional identity and educational background. They were from different places of Bangladesh. Repeated Measurement design was employed in this study. A Bangla adaption of short version of the Subjective Well-being Questionnaire of Nagpal and Sell (1985) was used to measure the Subjective Well-being of the practitioners. The questionnaire measures eight dimensions of well-being. The overall well-being can also be measured. First, the Subjective Well-being questionnaire was administered on the subjects who came to participate in meditation course by Quantum Method. The questionnaire was again applied on the same subjects after the completion of the meditation course of forty hours · . duration. The subjects were again tested after practice of six months and also after practice of twelve months using the same questionnaire. The mean score of each respondent on each of the eight dimensions as well as overall scores were computed separately. In order to analyze the effect of independent variable comparisons were made among the four sets of the score by employing t- test. It was hypothesized that Meditation by Quantum Method increases the Subjective Well-being of the individual. In the results of the study the overall mean score of Subjective Well-being was found to decrease as a function of degree of practice of Meditation by Quantum Method. These findings suggest that the Subjective Well­being of the subjects increases as a function of degree of practice of Meditation by Quantum Method. Thus, the results of the study confirm the hypothesis. The Subjective Well-being score was also found to decline gradually as a function of degree of practice of meditation in case of seven dimensions of Subjective Well­being. These additional findings provide further support to the hypothesis. Thus from the results of the study it can be conclude that Meditation by Quantum Method increases the Subjective Well-being of its practitioners.