Date of Award

2013

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Graham, Steven

Keywords

Meditation Yoga, Mindfulness, Rumination, Resilience, Stress, Chill Out, Psychology

Area of Concentration

Psychology

Abstract

The current study examined the relationships between the constructs of mindfulness, rumination, and psychological resilience, as well as the relationship between experience in yoga and/or meditation and the three psychological scales. A total of 20 participants completed the entire survey via online forums and were of legal age. The survey consisted of the Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire – Short Form (FFMQ-SF; Bohlmeijer, Klooster, Fledderus, Veehof, & Baer, 2011), the Ruminative Response Scale (RRS; Nolen-Hoeksema & Morrow, 1991), the Inventory of Positive Psychological Attitudes (IPPA) (Kass, Friedman, Leserman, Caudill, Zuttermeister, & Benson, 1991), and demographic questions asking about the overall experience and weekly practice of yoga practitioners and meditators. The hypotheses were (1) that the mindfulness subscales would relate negatively to rumination and positively to resilience; (2) experience with yoga would relate positively to mindfulness and resilience, and negatively to rumination; (3) experience in meditation would also relate positively to mindfulness and resilience, and negatively to rumination; (4) resilience would be negatively associated with rumination; (5) and that combined yoga and meditation experience (two years each or more) would yield above average scores on mindfulness and resilience and below average scores on rumination. A Pearson correlation validated most of the hypotheses with the exception of experience in yoga with rumination and resilience, experience in meditation with resilience, and the combined yoga-meditation experience with the rest of the scales. A post hoc power analysis was calculated for some of the marginally significant correlations, which yielded promising evidence for potential significance in future studies with larger sample sizes.

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