Measuring mindfulness-the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (FMI)

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1543-1555

  Walach, Harald ^a,d   Buchheld, Nina ^b   Buttenmüller, Valentin ^c   Kleinknecht, Norman ^c   Schmidt, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b TUMOR BIOLOGY CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assessment; Meditation; Mindfulness; Questionnaire; Validity measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646137377     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.11.025     Document Type: Article

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