Table 1. Baseline characteristics of physiological and questionnaire measurements by group.

	Relaxation group		Meditation group
	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