Uruguay. Previously, in a quantitative and cross-sectional study, we compared 52 Tibetan Buddhists with religious and non-religious population, showing significantly lower differences for Future Anxiety, Aggression-Hostility and Activity, when comparing the Buddhist group with the rest, and in Neuroticism-Anxiety when compared only with the religious group. The current article shows the qualitative results of the project, with a sample of 14 Buddhists. In-depth interviews were used to explore participants’ perception of psychological changes attributed to Buddhism. The qualitative analysis converged in certain results when compared to the quantitative counterpart. The results describe participants’ perception of changes in constructs/facets related to Aggression-Hostility, Future Anxiety and Neuroticism-Anxiety. The analysis of the constructs Activity and Sociability-Extraversion all...

Uruguay. Previously, in a quantitative and cross-sectional study, we compared 52 Tibetan Buddhists with religious and non-religious population, showing significantly lower differences for Future Anxiety, Aggression-Hostility and Activity, when comparing the Buddhist group with the rest, and in Neuroticism-Anxiety when compared only with the religious group. The current article shows the qualitative results of the project, with a sample of 14 Buddhists. In-depth interviews were used to explore participants’ perception of psychological changes attributed to Buddhism. The qualitative analysis converged in certain results when compared to the quantitative counterpart. The results describe participants’ perception of changes in constructs/facets related to Aggression-Hostility, Future Anxiety and Neuroticism-Anxiety. The analysis of the constructs Activity and Sociability-Extraversion all...