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Table 4 Linear correlations (Pearson correlation coefficient) with p-values in parentheses, for mindfulness and posttraumatic stress including the five Mindfulness Questionnaire sub-scales of observing, describing, acting with awareness, non-judging, and non-reacting as well as the three Impact of Event sub-scales of intrusion, avoidance and hyperarousal

From: Is mindfulness protective against PTSD? A neurocognitive study of 25 Tsunami disaster survivors

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IES Total

FFMQ Total

FFMQ Obs

FFMQ Descr

FFMQ Aware

FFMQ Non-judge

FFMQ Non-react

IES Intrusion

IES Avoid

IES Hyper arousal

IES Total

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.293 (.155)

.313 (.127)

.439* (.028)

.033 (.877)

-.285 (.167)

.270 (.192)

.649** (.000)

.396* (.050)

.591** (.002)

FFMQ Total

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.654** (.000)

.830** (.000)

.532** (.006)

.243 (.241)

.535** (.006)

.131 (.531)

.162 (.440)

.112 (.595)

FFMQ Obs

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.615** (.000)

-.176 (.400)

-.175 (.404)

.433* (.031)

.110 (.600)

.185 (.377)

.079 (.707)

FFMQ Descr

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.326 (.111)

-.132 (.529)

.430 (.032)

.178 (.396)

.082 (.698)

.177 (.397)

FFMQ Aware

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.307 (.135)

.020 (.924)

.051 (.809)

.101 (.630)

.051 (.890)

FFMQ Non-judge

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-.166 (.428)

-.232 (.265)

-.082 (.698)

-.206 (.322)

FFMQ Non-react

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.282 (.172)

.135 (.518)

.225 (.281)

IES Intrusion

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.715** (.000)

.900** (.000)

IES Avoid

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.608** (.001)

IES Hyper arousal

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  1. nā€‰=ā€‰25
  2. *correlation is significant at the 0.05 level
  3. **correlation is significant at the 0.01 level