Table 3.

Estimates of mean difference in anxiety symptoms between pre-intervention, post-intervention, and follow-up measurements for each of the four quartiles of neuroticism

Neuroticism quartile	Pre-MBSR (T1), M (SE)	Post-MBSR (T2), M (SE)	Follow-up (T3), M (SE)	Difference (T1–T3)	Cohen’s d
Low	5.30 (0.70)	2.50 (0.68)	1.59 (0.67)	3.71	0.42
Low-medium	8.90 (0.71)	4.83 (0.71)	1.47 (0.69)	7.43	0.82
Medium-high	10.33 (0.63)	6.36 (0.63)	2.22 (0.60)	8.10	1.02
High	14.96 (0.64)	9.25 (0.63)	1.24 (0.63)	13.72	1.67

Model includes socio-demographic variables and the four personality dimensions