The purpose of this research was to compare the 1st year undergraduate students’ happy learning of Faculty
of liberal Arts and Science Nakhon Phanom University taught by Anapanasati meditation and Normal approach.
The samples in the research were 38 – first – year – students majoring in General Science of Faculty of liberal
Arts and Science Nakhon Phanom University in academic year 2/2009 selected by simple random sampling. The
samples were divided into a 20 experimental group taught by Anapanasati meditation and an 18 control group taught
by Normal approach. The research instruments consisted of 1) 12 times meditation practiced program 2) Anapanasati
meditation manual and 3) Happy learning test in the form of rating scale of 40 items. The collected data was
analyzed by arithmetic means, standard deviation, lilliefors test, p-value and t-test. The results of the research
revealed that : 1) The 1st year undergraduate students taught by Anapanasati meditation and Normal approach
focused on the happy learning were significantly different at .o5 level. 2) The 1st year undergraduate students taught
by Anapanasati meditation focused on the happy learning were higher than those taught by the normal approach.
วรวุฒิ อินทนนท์