Quality of Life and Functional Health Status of Long-Term Meditators

Table 6

Comparison of SF-36 subscales study results with those of Meisenhelder and Chandler [1].

	Meisenhelder and Chandler [1]		This study
Subscale	Frequency of prayer 𝑟	Significance	Frequency of mental silence 𝑟	Significance
PF	−0.001	0.965	−0.039	0.474
RP	−0.010	0.715	−0.099	0.067
BP	0.037	0.166	−0.005	0.928
GH	0.088	0.001	0.200	0.001
V	0.103	0.001	0.217	0.001
SF	0.027	0.317	−0.030	0.586
RE	0.039	0.154	−0.097	0.077
MH	0.117	<0.001	0.345	0.001