The Assessment of Mindfulness with Self-Report Measures: Existing Scales and Open Issues

Mindfulness

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 191-202

  Bergomi, Claudia ^a   Tschacher, Wolfgang ^a   Kupper, Zeno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assessment; Mindfulness; Questionnaire; Self Report

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874676852     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-012-0110-9     Document Type: Article

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