Reduced Anxiety
through the Transcendental Meditation program
| Figure 2. A statistical meta-analysis of all available
studies (146 independent outcomes) indicated that the effect of
the Transcendental Meditation program on reducing state-trait anxiety
was approximately twice as great as that of all other meditation
and relaxation techniques. Duration of study, dropout rate, and
number of follow-up hours of instruction were statistically controlled,
and samples were matched for type of population. Analysis also showed
that the positive result for the Transcendental Meditation program
could not be attributed to subject expectation, experimenter bias,
or quality of research design.
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