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31-01-2022 | ORIGINAL PAPER

Measuring Psychological Mechanisms in Meditation Practice: Using a Phenomenologically Grounded Classification System to Develop Theory-Based Composite Scores

Auteurs: Marco Schlosser, Thorsten Barnhofer, Florence Requier, Yacila I. Deza-Araujo, Oussama Abdoun, Natalie L. Marchant, Gaël Chételat, Fabienne Collette, Olga M. Klimecki, Antoine Lutz, Medit-Ageing Research Group

Gepubliceerd in: Mindfulness | Uitgave 3/2022

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Abstract

Objectives

Deepening our understanding of the mechanisms by which meditation practices impact well-being and human flourishing is essential for advancing the science of meditation. A recent phenomenologically grounded classification system distinguishes attentional, constructive, and deconstructive forms of meditation based on the psychological mechanisms these practices primarily target or necessitate. Our main aim was to understand whether this theory-based taxonomy could be used as a guiding principle for combining established psychological self-report measures of meditation-related mechanisms into psychometrically adequate composite scores.

Methods

We used cross-sectional data to compute meditation composite scores in three independent samples, namely meditation-naïve healthy older adults from the Age-Well trial (n = 135), meditation-naïve older adults with subjective cognitive decline from the SCD-Well trial (n = 147), and healthy long-term meditators (≥ 10,000 h of practice including one 3-year meditation retreat) from the Brain & Mindfulness project (n = 29). The psychometric properties of the composite scores were assessed via floor and ceiling effects, composite intercorrelations, interpretability, and convergent validity in relation to well-being, anxiety, and depression.

Results

Three theoretically derived meditation composite scores, reflecting mechanisms involved in attentional, constructive, and deconstructive practices, displayed adequate psychometric properties. Separate secondary confirmatory factor analyses empirically corroborated the theoretically predicted three-factor structure of this classification system.

Conclusions

Complementing data-driven approaches, this study offers preliminary support for using a theoretical model of meditation-related mechanisms to create empirically meaningful and psychometrically sound composite scores. We conclude by suggesting conceptual and methodological considerations for future research in this area.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Measuring Psychological Mechanisms in Meditation Practice: Using a Phenomenologically Grounded Classification System to Develop Theory-Based Composite Scores
Auteurs
Marco Schlosser
Thorsten Barnhofer
Florence Requier
Yacila I. Deza-Araujo
Oussama Abdoun
Natalie L. Marchant
Gaël Chételat
Fabienne Collette
Olga M. Klimecki
Antoine Lutz
Medit-Ageing Research Group
Publicatiedatum
31-01-2022
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Mindfulness / Uitgave 3/2022
Print ISSN: 1868-8527
Elektronisch ISSN: 1868-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-021-01816-0