The Mindful Attention Awareness Scale for Adolescents (MAAS-A): Psychometric Properties in a Dutch Sample

Mindfulness

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 201-211

  de Bruin, Esther I ^a   Zijlstra, Bonne J H ^a   van de Weijer Bergsma, Eva ^a   Bögels, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Construct validity; Internal consistency; MAAS A; Mindfulness; Psychometric properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869211154     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-011-0061-6     Document Type: Article

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