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Study Results
Posted below are a few headlines of main results from the Mindful Leadership Study. Further
summaries of findings will be written and posted here in July and August 2010.
Please click the links at the bottom for excerpts from the dissertation.
The complete dissertation will not be available through
ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Publishing until 2012 so that
chapters from the dissertation can be edited and submitted for publication. The empirical findings
will be prepared for submission as journal articles. Any articles accepted for
publication will be posted here as PDFs as they are available, and as individual journal copyright
agreements permit. The theory chapters may be submitted for publication as a small book, and if
accepted that information will also be posted here.
Main Results
Here are headlines of some summary findings from the Mindful Leadership Study. All results reported below are based on statistical
analyses of self-report assessments completed by study participants.
If you are a researcher and have questions or would like to refer to
these results prior to publications from the study being made available, please contact
Metta McGarvey.
1. Mindfulness was strongly negatively correlated with Neuroticism as assessed by the Five Factor Model of
personality.
2. Mindfulness was moderately positively correlated with emotional intelligence as assessed by the Emotional Quotient
Inventory model of emotional intelligence.
3. Mindfulness was modestly positively correlated with Openness to New Experience as assessed by the Five Factor Model
of personality.
4. Emotional intelligence was fairly strongly negatively correlated with Neuroticism.
5. Higher scores on Mindfulness were significantly associated with an Integral meditation practice in
comparison with Buddhist meditation practices, other meditation practices, and no meditation practice.
Abstract
Introduction
Conclusion Section I
References
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