- Title
- Development of a 20-item Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Short Form: Factorial confirmation, validity, and reliability
- Creator
- Wilkinson, Ross B.; Hao, Jichun
- Relation
- Journal of Psychology and Behavioural Science Vol. 9, Issue 2, p. 1-18
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.15640/jpbs.v9n2a1
- Publisher
- American Research Institute for Policy Development
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Mindfulness has become a prominent clinical and research interest in psychology and self-report measures of dispositional mindfulness, such as the Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), have been widely adopted. While multiple short forms of the FFMQ have been developed, most are in languages other than English and few have had in-depth psychometric examinations. The current series of studies reports an independent confirmatory factor analysis of the FFMQ and the development of an English language, 20-item short form. The structure of the shortform was examined across multiple samples of university students (n= 939) and community members (n=508) and measurement invariance evaluated across age and gender. The Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire – Newcastle Short Form (FFMQ-NSF) was found to retain the factorial structure of the FFMQ while retaining appropriate convergent and discriminant validity and test-retest stability. Results indicate that the FFMQ-NSF may be an efficient tool to assess dispositional mindfulness and its aspects in a wide range of individuals.
- Subject
- mindfulness; short-form; assessment; confirmatory factor analysis; invariance testing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1460444
- Identifier
- uon:45962
- Identifier
- ISSN:2374-2399
- Language
- eng
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