Nonattachment, Trait Mindfulness, Meditation Practice and Life Satisfaction: Testing the Buddhism Psychology Model in Indonesia

Budiarto, Yohanes

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Nonattachment, Trait Mindfulness, Meditation Practice and Life Satisfaction: Testing the Buddhism Psychology Model in Indonesia

Yohanes Budiarto * yohanesb@fpsi.untar.ac.id * ORCID: 0000-0003-2716-9378 * ResearcherID: D-3989-2019
Tarumanagara University, Faculty of Psychology, INDONESIA

Open Journal for Psychological Research, 2019, 3(1), 11-22 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojpr.0301.02011b
Online Published Date: 6 July 2019

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KEY WORDS: trait mindfulness, nonattachment, psychological need satisfaction, well-being.

ABSTRACT:
This study aimed at studying the path analysis of Buddhism psychology: trait mindfulness and nonattachment. The mindfulness was expected to predict nonattachment and indirectly predicted the psychological needs satisfaction and well-being. The total sample of 229 participants (68.6% female, 31.4% male; mean age M=18.917, SD=.699; 63.3% meditation practitioners and 36.7% non-practitioners) completed the Nonattachment scale, Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), basic psychological need satisfaction and well-being. Results confirmed adequate measurement model (composite reliability and convergence validity), as well as significant path within the structural model test. Trait mindfulness predicted nonattachment significantly; nonattachment predicted the psychological need satisfaction; and psychological need satisfaction influence the well-being. Specific indirect effects were also found: nonattachment mediated the path of trait mindfulness and psychological need satisfaction; nonattachment predicted well-being through psychological need satisfaction; and nonattachment and psychological need satisfaction mediated the relationship between trait mindfulness and well-being. Meditation experiences significantly differentiate the prediction of trait mindfulness toward nonattachment.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Yohanes Budiarto, Tarumanagara University, Faculty of Psychology, Gedung K. Lt.2, Jl. Letjen S. Parman No. 1 Jakarta Barat 11440, INDONESIA. E-mail: yohanesb@fpsi.untar.ac.id.

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