A study on the perceptions and needs of adolescents' medication and meditation education according to meditation experience

The purpose of this study is to investigate perceptions and needs for meditation education among adolescents according to the meditation experience. For this purpose, a survey was conducted targeting 221 adolescents. The results derived from this study are as follows. First, there were significant differences in lying down meditation, walking meditation, story meditation, and awareness of the purpose of meditation education in the perception of adolescents' meditation types according to meditation experience. In the perception of the necessity of meditation education by adolescents according to meditation experience, there was a significant difference in perception of the necessity of meditation education, and there was a significant difference in 'to improve my academic achievement'. Second, according to the meditation experience, it was found that there was a significant difference in the demand for operation time, activity time, and activity cycle of adolescents' meditation education program. This study is meaningful in that it provided basic data for the construction of a meditation program for youth in the future by examining the perception and demand for meditation education according to the meditation experiences of adolescents.