Confirmatory cross-sectional analysis: associations between RR and well-being
We tested whether slower RR may be a general physiological marker of self-reported well-being. When testing across all participants, there were no significant associations between RR and distress (Among long-term meditators alone, slower RR was associated with significantly less psychological distress (Associations between baseline respiration rate (RR) and self-reported well-being. (Given the positive association between RR and SCL90 global distress, we conducted post-hoc analyses to examine which 9 sub-scales and 2 other composite measures of the SCL90 were driving this effect, as described in our pre-registration. Detailed statistical results for SCL90 scales are presented in Supplementary Table 