Predictors and moderators of biopsychological social stress responses following brief self-compassion meditation training.
Psychoneuroendocrinology July 1, 2016 Joanna J Arch, Lauren N Landy, Kirk Warren Brown
Arch et al. (2014) demonstrated that brief self-compassion meditation training (SCT) dampened sympathetic (salivary alpha-amylase) and subjective anxiety responses to the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), relative to attention and no-instruction control conditions. The present study examined baseline predictors and moderators of these SCT intervention effects. Baseline characteristics included...