Gender (male/female) |
11/5 |
10/6 |
0.139 |
0.710 |
Age (mean with standard deviation in parentheses) |
51 (14) |
53 (12) |
−0.521 |
0.606 |
Handedness (right/non-right) |
13/3 |
13/3 |
0.000 |
1.000 |
Highest level of completed education (college or university/graduate school) |
6/10 |
1/15 |
88.000 |
0.035 |
Work status (full-time/part-time/homemaker/retired/unemployed) |
9/3/1/2/1 |
11/3/0/2/0 |
2.276 |
0.926 |
Marital status (never married/married/living in permanent relationship/divorced) |
1/11/2/2 |
2/9/4/1 |
1.681 |
0.706 |
Race (White/African American/Asian) |
13/1/2 |
16/0/0 |
2.865 |
0.226 |
Meditation practice (Theravada/Vajrayana/Zen/Theravada, Zen and Vajrayana/Vedanta and Mindfulness/Zen and Catholic Contemplative/Theravada, Zen and Mindfulness) |
|
5/6/1/1/1/1/1 |
|
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Lifetime meditation practice hours (median, range) |
|
6164 (1527–50978) |
|
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