Assessing Adolescent Mindfulness: Validation of an Adapted Mindful Attention Awareness Scale in Adolescent Normative and Psychiatric Populations

Autor/inn/en	Brown, Kirk Warren; West, Angela Marie; Loverich, Tamara M.; Biegel, Gina M.
Titel	Assessing Adolescent Mindfulness: Validation of an Adapted Mindful Attention Awareness Scale in Adolescent Normative and Psychiatric Populations
Quelle	In: Psychological Assessment, 23 (2011) 4, S.1023-1033 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1040-3590
DOI	10.1037/a0021338
Schlagwörter	Intervention; Validity; Adolescents; Measures (Individuals); Attention; Scores; Public Schools; Factor Analysis; Pretests Posttests; Mental Health; Life Satisfaction; Psychiatry; Psychiatric Services; Consciousness Raising; Perception; Metacognition; Attention Control; Self Concept; Flesch Kincaid Grade Level Formula; Hopkins Symptom Checklist; Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale; State Trait Anxiety Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gültigkeit; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Messdaten; Aufmerksamkeit; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Faktorenanalyse; Psychohygiene; Lebensvollendung; Psychiatrie; Psychiatric care; Psychiatrische Versorgung; Bewusstseinsbildung; Wahrnehmung; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Selbstkonzept
Abstract	Interest in mindfulness-based interventions for children and adolescents is burgeoning, bringing with it the need for validated instruments to assess mindfulness in youths. The present studies were designed to validate among adolescents a measure of mindfulness previously validated for adults (e.g., Brown & Ryan, 2003), which we herein call the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale--Adolescent (MAAS-A). In 2 large samples of healthy 14- to 18-year-olds (N = 595), Study 1 supported a single-factor MAAS-A structure, along with acceptably high internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and both concurrent and incremental validity. In Study 2, with a sample of 102 psychiatric outpatient adolescents age 14-18 years, participants randomized to a mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention showed significant increases in MAAS-A scores from baseline to 3-month follow-up, relative to nonsignificant score changes among treatment-as-usual participants. Increases in MAAS-A scores among mindfulness-based stress reduction participants were significantly related to beneficial changes in numerous mental health indicators. The findings support the reliability and validity of the MAAS-A in normative and mixed psychiatric adolescent populations and suggest that the MAAS-A has utility in mindfulness intervention research. (Contains 2 footnotes and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10