Exploring the relationship between meditation experience, meditation session-length, and age on depression

Padilla, Victor Julian

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Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Padilla, Victor Julian (creator); Williams, David (Reader); Proulx, Jeffrey (Advisor); Brown University. Behavioral and Social Sciences Department (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Mindfulness; Mindfulness-based Interventions; Depression, Mental; Meditation; depression
Extent:: viii, 39 p.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/vbxa-y038

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Abstract:: Nearly one in ten adults aged twenty years and over in the United States report having symptoms of depression. Mindfulness, defined as the mental state of being nonjudgmentally aware of the present moment, has shown promise in addressing depression. Despite this, little is known about whether meditation history and the length of meditation sessions have an effect on depression. This study used secondary data from a cross-sectional study by Montero-Marin et al. (2019), to explore whether a person’s lifetime focused-attention meditation experience affected their depressive symptom severity by means of its effect on meditation session duration. Multiple regression analyses were performed, and individuals with more months of meditation experience where found to meditate for longer which in turn was associated with a reduction in their depressive symptom severity. These findings may be important for clinicians and researchers who are interested in understanding how length of meditation experience and the timing of meditation sessions can be helpful to the wider public.
Notes:: Thesis (Sc. M.)--Brown University, 2020

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Padilla, Victor Julian, "Exploring the relationship between meditation experience, meditation session-length, and age on depression" (2020). Public Health Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/vbxa-y038

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