Abstract

The Mind Diet Program (MDP) was developed mainly as a meditation-based program to improve self-regulation (Gim, 2019). The main feature of this program is that each module constituting the MDP is composed based on the effective process of three main meditation methods, which can contribute to the improvement of multidimensional self-regulation. The purpose of this study was to verify the effectiveness of the MDP on multidimensional self-regulation and satisfaction of life. For this, 68 college students were divided into the experimental group (MDP treatment group) and control group (non-treatment group). Then, four survey measurements were conducted for indicators related to physical and psychological self-regulation (attention, ease of relaxation, physical symptoms), cognitive self-regulation related indicators (mindfulness, perspective change, cognitive emotion regulation), socio- emotional self-regulation related indicators (compassion, social positive emotion, interpersonal ability), and satisfaction of life. Mixed ANOVA analysis results showed that MDP had a positive effect on physical and psychological self-regulation, cognitive self-regulation, socio-emotional self-regulation and satisfaction of life. In conclusion, this study confirmed that MDP enables holistic growth of individuals through the improvement of multidimensional self-regulation and positively contributes to increased satisfaction of life. Finally, limitations of this study and directions for future studies were discussed.