Scientific Research Database
Research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs
As taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
605 papers · 1,608 findings · 153 journals · 1970–2011
2 papers found
- 1978· Criminal Justice and Behavior· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 3Abrams, A. I.; and Siegel, L. M. The Transcendental Meditation Program and rehabilitation at Folsom State Prison: A cross-validation study. Criminal Justice and Behavior 5(1): 3–20, 1978.
In a cross-validation study performed in a maximum security prison, prisoners who learned the Transcendental Meditation program showed reductions in anxiety, neuroticism, hostility, and insomnia, and committed fewer behavioral infractions than controls.
- Rehabilitation of Offenders: Decreased State and Trait Anxiety among Prisoners
- Rehabilitation of Offenders: Decreased Neuroticism among Prisoners
- Rehabilitation of Offenders: Decreased Negativism among Prisoners
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- 1979· Criminal Justice and Behavior· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 3Abrams, A. I.; and Siegel, L. M. Transcendental Meditation and rehabilitation at Folsom Prison: Response to a critique. Criminal Justice and Behavior 6(1): 13–21, 1979.
The benefits of Transcendental Meditation reported in the previous paper were found not to be the result of selection bias or a tendency of subjects to make socially desirable, untrue responses.
- Rehabilitation of Offenders: Validation of Results of Paper 278