Mind Your Words: Positive and Negative Items Create Method Effects on the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

Autor/inn/en	Van Dam, Nicholas T.; Hobkirk, Andrea L.; Danoff-Burg, Sharon; Earleywine, Mitch
Titel	Mind Your Words: Positive and Negative Items Create Method Effects on the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire
Quelle	In: Assessment, 19 (2012) 2, S.198-204 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1073-1911
DOI	10.1177/1073191112438743
Schlagwörter	Factor Structure; Measures (Individuals); Factor Analysis; Questionnaires; Test Items; Evaluation Research; Undergraduate Students; Test Validity; Models; Attitude Measures; Psychometrics; Psychological Patterns; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Faktorenstruktur; Messdaten; Faktorenanalyse; Fragebogen; Test content; Testaufgabe; Evaluationsforschung; Testvalidität; Analogiemodell; Psychometry; Psychometrie
Abstract	Mindfulness, a construct that entails moment-to-moment effort to be aware of present experiences and positive attitudinal features, has become integrated into the sciences. The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), one popular measure of mindfulness, exhibits different responses to positively and negatively worded items in nonmeditating groups. The current study employed confirmatory factor analysis with a large undergraduate sample to examine the validity of a hierarchical mindfulness model and whether response patterns related to item wording arose from method effects. Results indicated that a correlated facets model better explained the data and that negative and positive wording constituted substantive method effects. This study suggests that the FFMQ measures components that may relate to, but do not seem to directly reflect, a latent variable of mindfulness. The authors recommend against the use of an FFMQ total score, favoring individual scale scores, and further examination of method effects in mindfulness scales. (Contains 1 figure and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10