Psychometric properties of the Spanish validation of the Five Facets of Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)

• DOI: 10.4321/s0213-61632012000200005
• Publication Date: 2012-09-13T13:48:19Z
• Authors: A. Cebolla; A. García-Palacios; J. Soler; V. Guillen; R. Baños; C. Botella
• Keywords: Adult; Male; Adolescent; Psychometrics; atenció; Assessment; Young Adult; Surveys and Questionnaires; Validation; Humans; Aged; Language; Psychological Tests; Mental Disorders; Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale; Reproducibility of Results; consciència; Awareness; Middle Aged; Scale; 3. Good health; Acceptance; Psychometric properties; Case-Control Studies; psicometria; Female; Acceptance, Aceptación, Assessment, Atención plena, Escala, Evaluación, Mindfulness, Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale, Scale, Validación, Validation; Mindfulness

The Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale (PHLMS) is a brief questionnaire for assessing 2 key components of mindfulness: present moment awareness, and acceptance. This study was aimed at evaluating the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of PHLMS in a sample of participants with and without psychiatric conditions.The Spanish version of the PHLMS was administered to a sample of 395 volunteers (256 of them with a psychiatric condition, and 130 from a student sample).Exploratory factor analysis found a two factor solution, which was also observed in the original version of the scale, with an explained variance of 44.02%. The scale showed good reliability (Cronbach α between 0.81 and 0.86), and an adequate convergent validity with other questionnaires of mindfulness and acceptance. The results also showed a similar discriminant validity to that in the original instrument validation between PHLMS and the clinical symptomatology reported.The Spanish version of the PHLMS is a psychometrically sound measure for assessing two core components of mindfulness (i.e. awareness and acceptance) in clinical and research settings.