The serenity of the meditating mind: A cross-cultural psychometric study on a two-factor higher order structure of mindfulness, its effects, and mechanisms related to mental health among experienced meditators

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Tran, Ulrich S ^a   Cebolla, Ausiàs ^b,c   Glück, Tobias M ^a   Soler, Joaquim ^d,e   Garcia Campayo, Javier ^f   Von Moy, Theresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^c Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONALITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FIVE FACETS MINDFULNESS QUESTIONNAIRE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDITATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MINDFULNESS; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SPAIN; VALIDATION PROCESS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CULTURAL FACTOR; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908178847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110192     Document Type: Article

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