Measuring mindfulness: A rasch analysis of the freiburg mindfulness inventory

Religions

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 693-706

  Sauer, Sebastian ^a,b   Walach, Harald ^c,d   Offenbächer, Martin ^a   Lynch, Siobhan ^e   Kohls, Niko ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Peter Schilffarth Institute for Sociotechnology   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA   (Germany)

^d SAMUELI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Item response theory; Measurement; Mindfulness; Rasch

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873479490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20771444     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rel2040693     Document Type: Article

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