Table 4.

Estimates of mean difference in depression 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)	MD (T1–T3)	Cohen’s d
Low	4.75 (1.03)	4.37 (1.11)	2.80 (0.91)	1.96	0.16
Low-medium	10.43 (1.0)	7.53 (1.12)	2.96 (0.95)	7.47	0.60
Medium-high	11.84 (0.88)	8.03 (0.96)	5.02 (0.82)	6.82	0.62
High	18.10 (0.88)	12.20 (0.94)	4.42 (0.85)	13.68	1.23

Model includes socio-demographic variables and the four personality dimensions