Meditation Breath Attention Scores (MBAS): Test-Retest Reliability and Sensitivity to Repeated Practice

Mindfulness

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 161-169

  Frewen, Paul A ^a   Unholzer, Franziska ^a   Logie Hagan, Kyle R J ^a   MacKinley, Julia D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breath attention; Decentering; Meditation; Mindfulness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896964335     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-012-0161-y     Document Type: Article

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