Mind Your Words: Positive and Negative Items Create Method Effects on the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

Assessment

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 198-204

  van Dam, Nicholas T ^a   Hobkirk, Andréa L ^a   Danoff Burg, Sharon ^a   Earleywine, Mitch ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

FFMQ; item wording effects; method effects; mindfulness; psychometrics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY; WRITING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WRITING;

EID: 84861816417     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191112438743     Document Type: Article

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