Study Choi (2011): study NL 2009
- Public
- Participants in a 9 day meditation retreat and controls, Netherlands, 2009
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 26
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
7 minute structured interviews, videotaped for later content-analysis
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- 9 day vipassana meditation retreat
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Meditation and interviews took place during winter holiday
- Distribution
- N = 1: 13, 0: 13
- Operationalization
- Intensive vipassana meditation retreat: participants meditated fro 6.30 in the morning to 22.00 in the evening during 9 days
1: participants
0: controls without meditation experience
matched for sexe, age and education
Observed Relation with Happiness
T1 T2 T1-T2
Meditators 17,03 18,65 +1,62(ns)
Controls 18,52 17,26 -0,78
- difference -1,49 +1,59 +3,08(01)
Controls - 3,3%
- difference +12,8%
Controls 21,92 21,85 -0,07
- difference -1,15 +1,00 +2,15(01)
Controls - 0,3%
- difference + 9,0%
Controls 9,09 11,08 +1,99
- difference -4,02 +0,30 +4,32
Controls - 1,8%
- difference + 8,0%
Time x group effects significant for all measures of happiness
T1: Directly before start of retreat
T2: Directly after end of retreat