Abstract:
The purposes of this study were to examine the effects of mindfulness on emotional competencies and well-being of undergraduate students and examine the effects of gender on the causal relationship beteween mindfulness ,emotional competencies and well-being of undergraduate students. The sample consisted of 385 (194 males & 191 femals) undergraduate students, who studied in year 1 to 4, in the first semester of academic year 2015. The sample was selected by employed a multi-stage random sampling procedure, who volunteer and willing to participate in the research project. The 3 research insruments were the Mindful awareness attention scale, the Assessing emotion scale, and the Scale of psychological well-being. The data was statistically analyzed by utilizing the Linear Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results revealed as follows:
1. The confirmatory factor analysis of the measure model of emotional competencies fitted
(Chi-square = 2.24, df =2, x2 /df =1.12, p =0.326, GFI =.997, AGFI =0.985, RMSEA =0.018, SRMR =0.011, NNFI =0.999, CFI =1.00)
2. The confirmatory factor analysis of the measure model of well-being fitted with the
empirical data (Chi-square = 3.843, df =2, x2 /df =0.768, p =0.572, GFI =.997, AGFI =0.986, RMSEA =0.000, SRMR =0.011, NNFI =1.000, CFI =1.00)
3. Mindfulness directly effected on emotional competencies of undergraduate students
statistically significant (p< .05)
4. Mindfulness directly effected on well-being of undergraduate students
statistically significant (p< .05)
5. Emotional competencies directly effected on well-being of undergraduate students
statistically significant (p< .05) and the well-being of undergraduate students was indirectly effected through emotional competencies statistically significant (p< .05)
6. Mindfulness had interaction with emotional competencies on statistically significant
(Standard coefficient = 0.119) lf demonstrated that mindfulness was appropriately to be a mediation variable more than a moderator variable between emotional competencies and well-being of undergraduate students.
7. Gender had no effect on the causal relationship beteween mindfulness, emotional competencies and well-being of undergraduate students (p> .05)