Quality of Life and Mindfulness Among Helping Professionals

This study investigated the relationship existing between quality of life and mindfulness among helping professionals towards the development of an intervention program dedicated to enhancing their emotional regulation. The study aspired to measure the quality of life and mindfulness among helping professionals, tested if there are significant differences on the variables of the study when grouped according to profile and, established significant relationship between quality of life and mindfulness. The participants of this study were 310 helping professionals using the mixed method of research with standardized tests and interview as the main gathering tools. Results showed that there are higher levels of compassion satisfaction on the professional quality of life of the respondents. Age was found to have an influence on the describing and non reactivity to inner experience facets. Sex has no significant difference on the facets of mindfulness. Religion influenced acting with awareness, non-judging of inner experience and non reactivity to inner experience. Mindfulness was found to be positively correlated with compassion satisfaction and negatively correlated with burnout and secondary traumatic stress, which are the components of compassion fatigue.

Keywords –professional quality of life, mindfulness, helping professional