Development of a 20-item Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Short Form: Factorial confirmation, validity and reliability.

Abstract

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.

Maternal dispositional mindfulness and mother–child relationship: The mediating role of emotional control during parenting

“…Maternal dispositional mindfulness was measured with the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire‐Short Form (FFMQ‐SF; Wilkinson & Hao, 2021). The FFMQ‐SF is composed of 20 items selected by the original 39‐items of the FFMQ (Baer et al, 2006).…”