Compassion-Based Meditation in African Americans: Self-Criticism Mediates Changes in Depression

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 160-168

  Johnson, Suzanne B ^a   Goodnight, Bradley L ^d   Zhang, Huaiyu ^b   Daboin, Irene ^a   Patterson, Bobbi ^c   Kaslow, Nadine J ^c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; DEPRESSION; EMPATHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF EVALUATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELF-ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85017355891     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 1943278X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12347     Document Type: Article

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