Abstract
A random sample of 1,033 adults in an Australian community survey completed a form containing the abbreviated Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire together with questions about the practice of prayer and Eastern meditation. While prayer was associated with low psychoticism scores, Eastern meditation was associated with high psychoticism scores.
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Kaldor, P., Francis, L.J. & Fisher, J.W. Personality and Spirituality: Christian Prayer and Eastern Meditation Are Not the Same. Pastoral Psychology 50, 165–172 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012944603577
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