Mindfulness-oriented meditation improves self-related character scales in healthy individuals

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1269-1278

  Campanella, Fabio ^a   Crescentini, Cristiano ^a,b   Urgesi, Cosimo ^a   Fabbro, Franco ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHARACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATURITY; MEDITATION; MINDFULNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SELF CONCEPT; SELF TRANSCENDENCE; TEMPERAMENT; TRAINING; WELLBEING; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CHARACTER; HUMANS; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902545135     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.03.009     Document Type: Article

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