results

Question 1

amount of mindfulness practice

Answer 1

1-the MBSR group engaged in an average of 22.6 hours of MBSR exercises

2-the standard deviation is large at 6.3 showing that some participants considerably more then others

3-overall participants 27 min per day participating in mindfulness exercises most of the time was spent body scanning participants spent more then twice the amount on this activity than yoga or meditation.
4- this suggests that different people preferred different exercises but doing a lot of one particular different exercise did not mean that you also did a lot of either of the other two (participant variables)

Question 2

improvements in mindfulness

Answer 2

1- the FFMQ showed that the experimental groups demonstrated significant improvements in acting with awareness observing and nonjudging after MBSRR training compared with the control group
2-but they did not show improvements in describing or ono reactivity

Question 3

FFMQ

Answer 3

ignificant improvement in 3 of the 5 facets of mindfulness:
1. acting with awareness
2. observing
3. non-judging
* No significant correlation b/w GMC and time spent on mindfulness exercises or the five facets of mindfulness

Non-MBSR Group
* No significant improvement in any of the five facets of mindfulness

Question 4

grey matter changes

Answer 4

i1-ncrease in grey matter in the left hippocampus when compared to the control group
2-changes in the cerebellum were observed in two locations one of these included the brainstem there were no changes of grey matter before MBSR training
so differences at 8 weeks were due to MBSR ns not personal differences
3-no changes of grey matter in the insula before or after
4- MBSR not correlated with time spent on FFMQ (time spent on mindfulness is less imp than regular practice)
5-no brain structures showed a decrease in grey matter concentration following the MBSR program, but the control group did show a decrease in grey matter concentration