Personality Predicts Utilization of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction during and Post-Intervention in a Community Sample of Older Adults

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 390-395

  Barkan, Tessa ^a   Hoerger, Michael ^a   Gallegos, Autumn M ^b   Turiano, Nicholas A ^c   Duberstein, Paul R ^b   Moynihan, Jan A ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

60 ITEM NEO FIVE FACTOR INVENTORY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDITATION; MINDFULNESS; MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THERAPY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; PERSONALITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84968866532     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: 15577708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2015.0177     Document Type: Article

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