Managers’ Experiences of Meditation Awareness Training

Mindfulness

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 899-909

  Shonin, Edo ^a   Van Gordon, William ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buddhism; Interpretative phenomenological analysis; Job performance; Meditation awareness training; Mindfulness; Work related stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937434871     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-014-0334-y     Document Type: Article

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