EFEKTIVITAS MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS REDUCTION (MBSR) DALAM MENURUNKAN GEJALA KECEMASAN SOSIAL PADA MAHASISWA

Social anxiety is a mental condition that college students often experience. Social anxiety can arise due to pressure received during the lecture period, both from academics and socialization. This research aims to determine the effectiveness of MBSR in reducing symptoms of social anxiety in students. This type of research is a quasi-experiment with a randomized pretest-posttest design. The number of subjects was ten students, divided into two experimental and control groups. Analysis used the Wilcoxon test and Mann-Whitney test. The results showed a significant reduction in symptoms of social anxiety in the experimental group compared to the experimental group with a value of Z = -2.023b with p = 0.043 and in the control group Z = -1.841b with p = 0.066. After being given the MBSR intervention, there was a reduction in symptoms of social anxiety in students.