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Correlational findings

Study Choi (2011): study NL 2009 /1

Public
Long-term meditators and controls, Netherlands 2009
Survey name
Unnamed study
Sample
Respondents
N = 20
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
Long-term meditation
Our Classification
Remarks
Meditators had on average 17 years of meditation experience (+/- 8 years). Meditators had normal professions and were not involved in meditation for livelyhood, but rather incorporated their meditation practice in their daily routine
Distribution
N = 1: 10; 0: 10
Operationalization
1 Long-term meditators
0 Controls without meditation experience or
   stresful life-event, matched for age and sexe

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks M-AO-*-mq-nvt-24-a DM = + Meditators   M = 22,00
Controls     M = 21,30
- difference     +0,70 = + 2.9% scale range
M-AO-*-mq-nvt-24-a d = .39