Model of Group Counseling Based on Satipaṭṭhāna in Promoting The Prisoners’ Buddhist Intellectual Well-Being
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The research article consisted of the following objectives: 1) to compare the Buddhist intellectual well-being of prisoners after using a group counseling model based on Satipaṭṭhāna (the Four Foundation of Mindfulness); and 2) to compare the Buddhist well-being of prisoners between the experimental group and control group. A sample group included 16 drug offenders, whether as sellers, users, or both, who were sentenced to imprisonment of one year but no more than ten years at Kamphaeng Phet Central Prison, B.E. 2020, and who had score on intellectual well-being that was less than the 25th percentile according to the inclusion criteria and were willing to participate in the ethical conduct in human research with their consent. The experimental and control groups are classified using sample random sampling, with 8 persons in each group. The research instruments were the measurement form on Buddhist intellectual well-being of prisoners and a group counselling model based on Satipaṭṭhāna. The statistics used were mean, standard deviation, t-test for dependent, and t-test for independent.
From the study, the following results are found: 1) After using a group counseling model based on Satipaṭṭhāna, the prisoners have a higher score on Buddhist intellectual well-being with a statistical significance of .05 level. 2) Following the experiment, both the experimental and control groups of prisoners have different scores on Buddhist intellectual well-being, but the differences were not statistically significant.
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