• Trupti R. Awatade

The purpose of this study was to study the effect of 6 weeks Sahaj Samadhi Meditation Program on Smartphone Addiction of young adults. Quasi Experimental pre-test and post-test non-equivalent design was used. For this study 28 young adults (males and females) aged between 18 to 25 years were selected purposively. The sample was selected by non-Probability based Purposive sampling technique. To measure smartphone addiction, the researcher used Smartphone Compulsive Test by Dr. David Greenfield in 2017. In order to measure Smartphone Addiction of the participants, the researcher had administered The Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale - 15 Items (SAPS) developed by Dongil Kim in 2014. The questionnaire consists of 15 items including Disturbance of Adaptive, Virtual Life Orientation, Withdrawal, Tolerance was used as data collection tool. Then total selected 28 participants, were separated into two different groups i.e., experimental (n=14) and control (n=14). 6 weeks Sahaj Samadhi Meditation intervention was developed and implemented only to experimental group. After 6 weeks, post-test data was collected for all 28 participants. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and further to study the effect by comparing change in performance of the experimental group with the control group, independent sample t test was used. The calculated t -values for Disturbance of Adaptive were 3.226. The p values were .003, which shows significant difference at 0.05 level of significance. The calculated t -values for Virtual Life Orientation, Withdrawal and Tolerance were, .574, .395, 2.393 respectively. The p values were, .571, .696, .024, respectively, which shows no significant difference at 0.05 level of significance. All the statistical analysis was done by SPSS software. The findings of this study indicated that there was a significant difference on Disturbance of Adaptive and no significant difference on Virtual Life Orientation, Withdrawal and Tolerance among young adults. The findings from this study can provide useful information to other researchers.

Sahaj Samadhi Meditation, Smartphone addiction, Young adults, Distribution of Adaptive, Virtual Life Orientation

"Effect of Sahaj Samadhi Meditation on Smartphone addiction among Young adults", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no.f146-f151, July-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307519.pdf

"Effect of Sahaj Samadhi Meditation on Smartphone addiction among Young adults", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no. ppf146-f151, July-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307519.pdf