Construct Validity of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire in Meditating and Nonmeditating Samples

By Ruth A. Baer, Gregory T. Smith, E. Lykins, Daniel F Button, Jennifer Krietemeyer, Shannon E. Sauer, E. Walsh, Danielle S. Duggan, J. Williams. Assessment (Odessa, Fla.), 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Mindfulness, by any other name…: trials and tribulations of sati in western psychology and science (2011, background): “Furthermore, evidence from Baer et al. (2008) indicates that a central aspect of mindfulness (‘Observing’; also one of the two subscales showing evidence of differential item functioning) could not be reliably assessed so that meditators and nonmeditators might be validly compared: items in this…”
Mediating role of resilience in the impact of mindfulness on life satisfaction and affect as indices of subjective well-being (2016, background): “Levels of mindfulness may also be increased through meditation or mindfulness training (Baer et al., 2008; Falkenstrom, 2010).”
Mind the Gap in Mindfulness Research: A Comparative Account of the Leading Schools of Thought (2013, methodology): “FFMQ items include: “When I do things, my mind wanders off and I’m easily distracted”; “I watch my feelings without getting lost in them”; “It seems I am ’running on automatic’ without much awareness of what I’m doing”; and “I pay attention to how my emotions affect my thoughts and behavior”.”
The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Educator Stress and Well-Being: Results from a Pilot Study (2013, positive): “The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ; Baer et al. 2008) is a 39-item Likert-type scale designed tomeasure different facets of mindfulness in adults.”
Relating Mindfulness, Heartfulness, and Psychological Well-Being: the Role of Self-Compassion and Gratitude (2018, methodology): “…mindfulness has been found positively related to psychological wellbeing, considered both as a single construct obtained by collapsing the six dimensions (e.g., Baer et al. 2008; Josefsson et al. 2011), and separately in its six dimensions (e.g., Bergin and Pakenham 2016; Bravo et al. 2016).”
Mindfulness training and reductions in teacher stress and burnout: Results from two randomized, waitlist-control field trials. (2013, methodology): “Mindfulness was assessed with the Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire, a validated measure for use with adults (FFM; Baer et al., 2008).”
A Preliminary Investigation of the Relationships Between Dispositional Mindfulness and Impulsivity (2011, background): “ Baer et al. (2006) proposed that in populations untrained in mindfulness meditation, observing can assess mindful attention but can also measure a type of attention that is ruminative, reactive, and judgmental, and therefore inconsistent with mindfulness.”
Meditation and happiness: Mindfulness and self-compassion may mediate the meditation–happiness relationship (2016, background): “…been related to positive emotions (Fredrickson, Cohn, Coffey, Pek & Finkel, 2008), positive reappraisal (Hanley & Garland, 2014), life satisfaction (Kong, Wang & Zhao, 2014), psychological health (Keng, Smoski & Robins, 2011), and psychological well-being (Baer et al., 2008; Brown & Ryan, 2003).”
Mindfulness, Self-compassion, Self-efficacy, and Gender as Predictors of Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and Well-being (2015, background): “Baer et al. (2008) found that describing, awareness, non-judging, and non-reactivity predicted well-being, while observing did not.”
Effects of Mindfulness on Psychological Health: A Review of Empirical Studies (2011, background): “In two other studies, facets of trait mindfulness were found to mediate the relationship between meditation experience and psychological wellbeing in combined samples of meditators and non-meditators (Baer et al., 2008; Josefsson, Larsman, Broberg, & Lundh, 2011).”
Exploring self‐compassion and empathy in the context of mindfulness‐based stress reduction (MBSR) (2010, positive): “Future research would benefi t from using a mindfulness measure that more clearly delineates different facets of mindfulness, such as the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (Baer et al., 2006, 2008), which could provide insight into more nuanced relationships between components of empathy and mind”