Table 1. Baseline characteristics of physiological and questionnaire measurements by group.
Relaxation group | Meditation group | |||||
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M | SD | M | SD | p | Eta2 | |
Physiological measurements | ||||||
Cold detection threshold | 29.68 | 1.39 | 29.58 | 1.61 | .732 | .00 |
Warmth detection threshold | 33.87 | 1.14 | 34.19 | 1.63 | .232 | .01 |
Cold pain threshold | 7.69 | 7.11 | 6.06 | 6.08 | .192 | .02 |
Heat pain threshold | 45.94 | 3.06 | 46.85 | 2.97 | .111 | .02 |
Cold Pressor Test sec. | 19.98 | 11.36 | 24.56 | 21.10 | .156 | .02 |
Pain intensity cold | 42.05 | 27.78 | 50.54 | 25.44 | .093 | .03 |
Pain intensity heat | 57.79 | 25.19 | 61.71 | 26.84 | .424 | .01 |
Heart rate | 66.93 | 8.52 | 68.55 | 9.88 | .351 | .01 |
Subjective stress | 20.46 | 22.73 | 28.86 | 29.20 | .091 | .03 |
Subjective pain | 38.28 | 29.28 | 46.04 | 31.01 | .174 | .02 |
Psychological measurements | ||||||
BSI Somatization | 0.41 | 0.47 | 0.38 | 0.36 | .723 | .00 |
BSI Obsessive-Compulsive | 0.64 | 0.40 | 0.65 | 0.48 | .891 | .00 |
BSI Interpersonal Sensitivity | 0.54 | 0.42 | 0.46 | 0.40 | .307 | .01 |
BSI Depression | 0.26 | 0.32 | 0.27 | 0.33 | .907 | .00 |
BSI Anxiety | 0.41 | 0.31 | 0.38 | 0.38 | .587 | .00 |
BSI Hostility | 0.44 | 0.37 | 0.44 | 0.41 | .935 | .00 |
BSI Phobic Anxiety | 0.18 | 0.24 | 0.13 | 0.22 | .219 | .01 |
BSI Paranoid Ideation | 0.47 | 0.47 | 0.37 | 0.36 | .199 | .01 |
BSI Psychoticism | 0.27 | 0.25 | 0.18 | 0.27 | .064 | .03 |
General Religiosity | 29.47 | 11.90 | 29.63 | 9.65 | .941 | .00 |
Forgiveness | 38.44 | 6.96 | 37.29 | 7.28 | .391 | .01 |
Hope Immanent | 40.77 | 4.35 | 39.48 | 4.25 | .114 | .02 |
Connectedness | 32.19 | 10.06 | 29.80 | 8.33 | .172 | .02 |
Hope Transcendent | 36.77 | 5.77 | 35.23 | 7.32 | .217 | .01 |
Experience of Sense and Meaning | 39.70 | 5.35 | 39.23 | 5.62 | .650 | .00 |
Total Score | 217.35 | 30.06 | 210.66 | 28.10 | .224 | .01 |
Subjective religious faith | 54.56 | 30.88 | 53.33 | 24.60 | .815 | .00 |
Dimension of religious faith | 44.40 | 29.59 | 41.61 | 25.88 | .594 | .00 |
Dimension of spirituality | 57.96 | 25.76 | 50.38 | 25.38 | .118 | .02 |
Attachment to an ecclesiastical community | 22.19 | 25.22 | 28.55 | 25.70 | .187 | .02 |