Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop a program to investigate the effects of the Meditation-Mindfulness-Positive Psychology Training (MMPT) program on aging anxiety and well-being of middle-aged women and to verify its effectiveness. To this end, a program was developed focusing on meditation, mindfulness, and positive psychology, which are the components of MMPT, and middle-aged women with high aging anxiety were selected, and 22 people in the real-time online video group, 24 people in the online video group, and 23 people in the waiting control group were targeted. The effect of the intervention was verified by comparison. Measures of life satisfaction and satisfaction prediction, cognitive flexibility, psychological well-being, aging anxiety, and depression in each group were collected before, during, after, and after the program (one month later). As a result, the participants in the real-time online program group and the online video program group significantly changed life satisfaction and satisfaction expectations, cognitive flexibility, psychological well-being, aging anxiety, and depression levels before and after the program, and the changes were maintained until 1 month later. Its therapeutic effect has been proven. In addition, in order to investigate the mechanism, the mediating effect on mindfulness, self-compassion, and cognitive emotion regulation, which are the key factors of the MMPT program, was verified. It was confirmed that the indirect effect was significant. Based on these results, the contribution of the MMPT program to the improvement of psychological health was discussed, and considerations for future research were presented.