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Applied Mindfulness Process Scale (AMPS)

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The Applied Mindfulness Process Scale (AMPS) is a measure that assesses the use of mindfulness skills in daily life. The scale is ideally used during or after a mindfulness-based intervention. It consists of 15 items that can be rated on a five-point Likert scale and measures three different domains, namely, decentering, positive emotion regulation, and negative emotion regulation. The AMPS was developed and validated using qualitative and quantitative techniques. It exhibits excellent reliability and nomological validity, correlating positively with well-being scales and negatively with measures of distress. Moreover, it has incremental validity accounting for variance in outcome measures beyond the explanatory power of other mindfulness measures. Preliminary research findings indicate that the scale is sensitive to changes in mindfulness. However, the AMPS is a relatively new scale, and more research is needed that uses the scale in mindfulness-based intervention research.

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  1. School of Psychology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Anja Roemer

  2. School of Psychology, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Oleg N. Medvedev

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  1. School of Psychology, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Oleg N. Medvedev

  2. North Shore Campus, Auckland Univ of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Christian U. Krägeloh

  3. Dept of Psychology and Neuroscience, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Richard J. Siegert

  4. Augusta University, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Nirbhay N. Singh

Appendix 1

Appendix 1

The Applied Mindfulness Process Scale (AMPS)

Instructions: Everyone gets confronted with negative or stressful events in daily life, and people who practice mindfulness cope with these events in different ways. Please indicate how often you have used mindfulness to cope in each of these ways (if at all) for the period of the last week (past 7 days).

0 – Never 1 – Rarely 2 – Sometimes 3 – Often 4 – Almost always

I used mindfulness practice to …

  1. 1.

    observe my thoughts in a detached manner.

  2. 2.

    relax my body when I was tense.

  3. 3.

    see that my thoughts were not necessarily true.

  4. 4.

    enjoy the little things in life more fully.

  5. 5.

    calm my emotions when I was upset.

  6. 6.

    stop reacting to my negative impulses.

  7. 7.

    see the positive side of difficult circumstances.

  8. 8.

    reduce tension when I was stressed.

  9. 9.

    realize that I can grow stronger from difficult circumstances.

  10. 10.

    stop my unhelpful reactions to situations.

  11. 11.

    be aware of and appreciating pleasant events.

  12. 12.

    let go of unpleasant thoughts and feelings.

  13. 13.

    realize that my thoughts are not facts.

  14. 14.

    notice pleasant things in the face of difficult circumstances.

  15. 15.

    see alternative views of a situation.

Factor 1 (decentering), items 1, 3, 12, 13, and 15; factor 2 (positive emotion regulation), items 4, 7, 9, 11, and 14; factor 3 (negative emotion regulation), items 2, 5, 6, 8, and 10.

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Li, M. J., Black, D. S., & Garland, E. L. (2016). The Applied Mindfulness Process Scale (AMPS): A process measure for evaluating mindfulness-based interventions. Personality and Individual Differences, 93, 6–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.03.040

Instructions for administration. We suggest that the AMPS process measure be administered one or more times during the course of the intervention when the participant has become familiar with the practice (e.g., at week 4, the intervention midpoint; at week 8, the end of the MBI).

Instructions for scoring. (1) Sum each factor individually to obtain score ranging from 0 to 20, and/or (2) sum all 15 items to obtain score ranging from 0 to 60.

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Roemer, A., Medvedev, O.N. (2022). Applied Mindfulness Process Scale (AMPS). In: Medvedev, O.N., Krägeloh, C.U., Siegert, R.J., Singh, N.N. (eds) Handbook of Assessment in Mindfulness Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77644-2_27-1

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