What kinds of people are drawn to meditation?
Excited to share the first paper from my PhD (w/ @ntvandam.bsky.social and Luke Smillie) now out in Mindfulness (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-025-02526-7)
Across 2 samples, we examined personality predictors of meditation and related constructs (1/3)
Excited to share the first paper from my PhD (w/ @ntvandam.bsky.social and Luke Smillie) now out in Mindfulness (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-025-02526-7)
Across 2 samples, we examined personality predictors of meditation and related constructs (1/3)
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Curiosity, openness and agreeableness also predicted positive attitudes and (lowered) perceived barriers to meditation practice, whereas neuroticism predicted (higher) barriers to practice.
We tried to test this using a manipulation of our study advertising but did not find evidence for consistent selection effects.