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

Table 3

Comparison of SF-36 subscale scores between mental silence practitioners and Australian national norms.

Subscale	Test value (national norm)	𝑇	Df	Significance	Mean difference
PF	83.82	1.75	345	0.082	2.39
RP	80.64	−0.95	345	0.342	−2.10
BP	77.05	3.19	345	0.002	3.79
GH	71.81	12.72	332	0.001	10.72
V	64.27	6.24	337	0.001	5.98
SF	85.25	3.59	337	0.001	3.52
RE	83.44	4.43	334	0.001	5.74
MH	75.75	14.26	336	0.001	9.56