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Mindful Attention and Awareness: Relationships with Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2013

Sónia Gregório  and
José Pinto-Gouveia
Sónia Gregório*
Affiliation:
University of Coimbra (Portugal)
José Pinto-Gouveia
Affiliation:
University of Coimbra (Portugal)
*
*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Sónia Gregório. CINEICC. Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação. Universidade de Coimbra. Rua do Colégio Novo. Apartado 6153. 3001–802. Coimbra (Portugal). Phone: +351–966913438. Fax: +351–239851462. E-mail: sm_gregorio@hotmail.com
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Abstract

The growing interest in mindfulness from the scientific community has originated several self-report measures of this psychological construct. The Mindful Attention and Awareness Scale (MAAS) is a self-report measure of mindfulness at a trait-level. This paper aims at exploring MAAS psychometric characteristics and validating it for the Portuguese population. The first two studies replicate some of the original author’s statistical procedures in two different samples from the Portuguese general community population, in particular confirmatory factor analyses. Results from both analyses confirmed the scale single-factor structure and indicated a very good reliability. Moreover, cross-validation statistics showed that this single-factor structure is valid for different respondents from the general community population. In the third study the Portuguese version of the MAAS was found to have good convergent and discriminant validities. Overall the findings support the psychometric validity of the Portuguese version of MAAS and suggest this is a reliable self-report measure of trait-mindfulness, a central construct in Clinical Psychology research and intervention fields.

Keywords

mindfulnessMAASPortuguese validationemotion regulation
Type
Research Article
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The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 16 , 2013 , E79
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Copyright © Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid 2013 

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