Pengaruh Pelatihan Berbasis Mindfulness Terhadap Tingkat Stres Pada Guru Paud

Teacher is a profession at high risk of stress. Mindfulness as one of the emotional coping strategy is an alternative interventions that can help teachers cope with stress condition. Smiling Mind training used in this study was a form of intervention to manage stress which developed based on the concept of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). Participants involved in the study were 5 early childhood education teacher age 20-35in TK Khalifah Yogyakarta. The study was an quantitative research which used quasi experiment model and the one group pretest-posttest design. SM training was conducted for two weeks, involving 7 sessions within 3 days of meeting with duration of 150-180 minutes per meeting. Result of quantitative analysis showed that SM training could reduce stress level of early childhood education teachers which was shown by z score of -2,023 and p = 0,043 (p