Psychometric Properties of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire in Depressed Adults and Development of a Short Form

Autor/inn/en	Bohlmeijer, Ernst; ten Klooster, Peter M.; Fledderus, Martine; Veehof, Martine; Baer, Ruth
Titel	Psychometric Properties of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire in Depressed Adults and Development of a Short Form
Quelle	In: Assessment, 18 (2011) 3, S. 308-320Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1073-1911
DOI	10.1177/1073191111408231
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Construct Validity; Factor Structure; Personality Traits; Patients; Measures (Individuals); Psychometrics; Therapy; Depression (Psychology); Anxiety; Metacognition; Questionnaires; Foreign Countries; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Factor Analysis; Diseases; Goodness of Fit; Well Being; Neurosis; Adults; Netherlands; NEO Five Factor Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Faktorenstruktur; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Patient; Messdaten; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Therapie; Angst; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Fragebogen; Ausland; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Faktorenanalyse; Disease; Krankheit; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Neurose; Niederlande
Abstract	In recent years, there has been a growing interest in therapies that include the learning of mindfulness skills. The 39-item Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) has been developed as a reliable and valid comprehensive instrument for assessing different aspects of mindfulness in community and student samples. In this study, the psychometric properties of the Dutch FFMQ were assessed in a sample of 376 adults with clinically relevant symptoms of depression and anxiety. Construct validity was examined with confirmatory factor analyses and by relating the FFMQ to measures of psychological symptoms, well-being, experiential avoidance, and the personality factors neuroticism and openness to experience. In addition, a 24-item short form of the FFMQ (FFMQ-SF) was developed and assessed in the same sample and cross-validated in an independent sample of patients with fibromyalgia. Confirmatory factor analyses showed acceptable model fit for a correlated five-factor structure of the FFMQ and good model fit for the structure of the FFMQ-SF. The replicability of the five-factor structure of the FFMQ-SF was confirmed in the fibromyalgia sample. Both instruments proved highly sensitive to change. It is concluded that both the FFMQ and the FFMQ-SF are reliable and valid instruments for use in adults with clinically relevant symptoms of depression and anxiety. (Contains 8 tables.) (As Provided).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10