Development of a scale to assess the meditation experience

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 547-552

  Reavley, Nicola ^a   Pallant, Julie F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Meditation; Mindfulness; Scale development; Spiritual wellbeing

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649361326     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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