Assessment of Response to Mindfulness Meditation: Meditation Breath Attention Scores in Association with Subjective Measures of State and Trait Mindfulness and Difficulty Letting Go of Depressive Cognition

Mindfulness

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 254-269

  Frewen, Paul ^a   Lundberg, Erica ^a   MacKinley, Julia ^a   Wrath, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breath attention; Decentering; Depression; Meditation; Mindfulness; Negative automatic thoughts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869223983     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-011-0069-y     Document Type: Article

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