Altered experience mediates the relationship between schizotypy and mood disturbance during shamanic-like journeying Rock, Adam J, Abbott, Gavin R. and Kambouropoulos, Nicolas 2008, Altered experience mediates the relationship between schizotypy and mood disturbance during shamanic-like journeying, Journal of scientific exploration, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, pp. 371-384. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads abbott-alteredexperience-2008.pdf Published version application/pdf 2.35MB 69 Title Altered experience mediates the relationship between schizotypy and mood disturbance during shamanic-like journeying Author(s) Rock, Adam J Abbott, Gavin R. orcid.org/0000-0003-4014-0705 Kambouropoulos, Nicolas orcid.org/0000-0001-9861-3347 Journal name Journal of scientific exploration Volume number 22 Issue number 3 Season Fall Start page 371 End page 384 Total pages 14 Publisher Society for Scientific Exploration Place of publication Lawrence, Kan. Publication date 2008 ISSN 0892-3310 Keyword(s) altered experience mood disturbance schizotypy shamanism Summary Studies have found that shamanic practices are associated with statistically significant reductions in mood disturbance relative to baseline. However, contrary results were obtained for non-shamanic practitioners exposed to shamanic-like techniques. These inconsistent results may be partially due to a personality trait referred to as schizotypy, which has been demonstrated to influence susceptibility to shamanic-like techniques. Furthermore, given that an integral feature of shamanism is the production of altered states of awareness and altered experiences, and that shamanism is associated with health benefits, perhaps the production of such alterations affects health benefits. Consequently, the present study aimed to investigate whether altered state of awareness and altered experience mediated the association between schizotypy and mood disturbance during exposure to a shamanic-like condition. Sixty-nine non-shamans were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: shamanic-like journeying with drumming or sitting quietly with eyes open. Total mood disturbance-change was significantly negatively correlated with schizotypy and altered experience -- but not altered state of awareness -- and these correlations were significantly stronger for the shamanic-like journeying condition relative to the control condition. Furthermore, altered experience significantly mediated the association between schizotypy and total mood disturbance-change during exposure to shamanic-like journeying. Language eng Field of Research 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2008, Society for Scientific Exploration Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30017248 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Psychology Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Link to Related Work Altered experience mediates the relationship between schizotypy and mood disturbance during shamanic-like journeying (deposited 26-09-2021) Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) Publisher (deposited 19-09-2013)   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 13:51:18 EST Tue, 08 Dec 2009, 13:10:05 EST Tue, 08 Dec 2009, 13:12:33 EST Fri, 11 Jun 2010, 14:07:04 EST Thu, 19 Sep 2013, 08:48:49 EST Thu, 19 Sep 2013, 08:50:21 EST Tue, 01 Oct 2013, 14:57:15 EST Wed, 02 Jul 2014, 14:08:16 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 12:34:10 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 06:30:22 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 14:16:01 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 1 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 995 Abstract Views, 69 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 13:51:18 EST

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