Sharon Danoff-Burg

Differential item function across meditators and non-meditators on the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 10-2009

DOI: 10.1016/J.PAID.2009.05.005

Mind Your Words

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 02-03-2012

DOI: 10.1177/1073191112438743

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 s le 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 in idual scale scores, and further examination of method effects in mindfulness scales.

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