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Stress reactivity, health, and meditation: A path analytic approach.
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- 자료유형학위논문
- 저자명Greene, Paul B
- 학회/출판사/기관명Boston University
- 출판년도2005
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- 소개/요약Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an 8-week clinical intervention developed by Kabat-Zinn and colleagues in the 1970's and 1980's. Mindfulness meditation is the key component of MBSR, and patients are typically asked to meditate 45 minutes daily. The present study aimed to assess the directionality of the relationship between meditation and stress. This was done with path analysis. The study also examined stress reactivity's role in meditation's healthful effects. Finally, the study assessed the relative importance of different aspects of meditation practice, including length and frequency of meditation._x000D_ The sample included 180 persons practicing meditation similar to mindfulness meditation, recruited from meditation centers around the U.S. Subjects completed self-report measures on meditation habits, the Weekly Stress Inventory (WSI), and the Short Form-36V health survey. To assess causality between meditation and stress reactivity, the WSI and the meditation questionnaire were re-administered two weeks after initial data collection. Data were collected primarily via the internet._x000D_ The first path analysis compared two models differing only on the causal direction of the path between stress reactivity and recent meditation. The model positing recent meditation influencing stress reactivity provided a better fit to the data than the model positing stress reactivity influencing meditation practice. The second analysis examined the path coefficients of a similar but fully identified model. This also showed meditation's influence on stress reactivity to provide a better fit to the data than the alternative model._x000D_ A strong negative association was found between stress reactivity and health. Also, frequency of meditation was as important to stress reactivity as hours meditated. Additionally, when examining the differential importance of recent meditation vs. lifetime meditation experience, recent meditation was associated with emotional health, vitality, and stress reactivity, whereas lifetime meditation experience was relatively unimportant. This study has some implications for MBSR, including the importance of continued meditation practice after patients complete MBSR. Another such implication concerns the equal importance of frequency of meditation vs. length of meditation sessions. This study is an initial effort at addressing the role of stress reactivity in meditation's effects. Further efforts studying these phenomena with clinical populations are needed._x000D_
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