Keywords
personal wellbeing
Perú
primary school children
transcendental meditation
Perú
primary school children
transcendental meditation
How to Cite
Fergusson, L., Ortiz Cabrejos, J., & Bonshek, A. (2025). Niños peruanos de primaria alta que aprenden meditación trascendental: Un estudio cuasi-experimental de bienestar personal. Revista Internacional De Educación Emocional Y Bienestar, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.48102/rieeb.2025.5.2.e177
Abstract
Personal wellbeing is considered a global measure of how satisfied an individual feels about their life, a measure which encompasses mental and physical health as well as interfacing with resilience and quality-of-life. As part of a pre-, peri-, and post-pandemic research program in Perú, prior controlled evidence by these authors suggested the practice of Transcendental Meditation by 49orphan girls increased wellbeing by 33%, a statistically significant change. We now to turn our attention to upper primary-age school children. Using a quasi-experimental pretest–posttest design with a N = 402 sample of 5th- and 6th-grade indigenous children at three schools, we found wellbeing increased after practicing Transcendental Meditation from 62.6/90 (69.5%) to 68.4/90 (78.0%), or 24.5%, a significant difference, with school, gender and age mostly unrelated to this improvement. As wellbeing is a reliable predicator of both health and longevity, these results suggest a more promising future for children in Perú.
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