This handbook provides comprehensive coverage of assessment instruments used in mindfulness research. It discusses traditional and modern approaches used to develop psychometric measures and to establish their reliability and validity, such as classical test theory, item response theory and Rasch model, generalizability theory, facet benchmarking, and network analysis. The handbook provides information on conceptual foundations, development, and psychometric properties of assessment instruments used to measure mindfulness in children, adolescents, and adults. In addition, it provides similar information on scales used in specific contexts and for various purposes. It reviews behavioral, cognitive, and psychophysiological assessment measures of mindfulness. The handbook examines a broad range of psychological, physical health, and mental health, and related measures that are used in mindfulness research. This reference work enables researchers to choose appropriate measurement tools fora broad range of mindfulness research.
Key areas of coverage include:
- Nature and theoretical foundations of assessment.
- Origins and definitions of mindfulness.
- Mindfulness scales for children and adolescents.
- Mindfulness scales for adults.
- Mindfulness scales for specific contexts and purposes.
- Mindfulness and Buddhist-related scales.
- Behavioral assessments of mindfulness.
- Cognitive and psychophysiological assessments of mindfulness.
The Handbook of Assessment in Mindfulness Research is an essential reference for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other mental health practitioners in clinical psychology and affiliated medical and mental health disciplines, including complementary and alternative medicine, social work, occupational and rehabilitation therapy.
Preface.- Part
1. Introduction.
Chapter
1. Assessment in Mindfulness:
An introduction.
Chapter
2. Nature of Mindfulness.- Part
2. Foundations of
Assessment.
Chapter
3. Classical Test Theory.
Chapter
4. Item Response
Theory and Rasch Model.
Chapter
5. Generalizability Theory.
Chapter
6.
Facet Benchmarking.
Chapter
7. Network Analysis.- Part
3. Mindfulness Scales
for Children and Adolescents.
Chapter
8. Mindful Attention Awareness Scale
for Children (MAAS-C).
Chapter
9. Mindful Attention Awareness Scale for
Adolescents (MAAS-A).
Chapter
10. Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure
(CAMM).
Chapter
11. Comprehensive Inventory of Mindfulness
Experience-Adolescents (CHIME-A).
Chapter
12. Adolescent and Adult
Mindfulness Scale (AAMS).- Part
4. Mindfulness Scales for Adults.
Chapter
13. Mindful Attention and Awareness Scale (MAAS).
Chapter
14. Five Facet
Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ).
Chapter
15. Kentucky Inventory of
Mindfulness Skills (KIMS).
Chapter
16. Toronto Mindfulness Scale (TMS).-
Chapter
17. Toronto Mindfulness Scale Trait Version (Trait TMS).
Chapter
18.
Comprehensive Inventory of Mindfulness Experiences (CHIME).
Chapter
19.
Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (CAMS-R).
Chapter
20.
Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale (PHLMS).
Chapter
21. Freiburg Mindfulness
Inventory (FMI).
Chapter
22. Southampton Mindfulness Questionnaire (SMQ).-
Chapter
23. Multidimensional State Mindfulness Questionnaire (MSMQ).
Chapter
24. State Mindful Scale (SMS).
Chapter
25. Mindfulness Inventory: Nine
Dimension (MI:ND).
Chapter
26. Applied Mindfulness Process Scale (AMPS).-
Chapter
27. Langer Mindfulness/Mindlessness Scale (MMS).- Part
5. Mindfulness
Scales for Specific Contexts and Purposes.
Chapter
28. Interpersonal Mindful
Parenting (IM-P) Scale.
Chapter
29. Bangor Mindful Parenting Scale (BMPS).-
Chapter
30. Mindful Eating Behavior Scale (MEBS).
Chapter
31. Mindful Eating
Questionnaire (MEQ).
Chapter
32. Mindfulness in Teaching Scale (MTS).-
Chapter
33. Athlete Mindfulness Questionnaire (AMQ).
Chapter
34. Teaching
Mindfulness in Education Observation Scale (TIMEOS).
Chapter
35.
MBCT-Adherence Scale (MBCT-AS).- Part
6. Mindfulness and Buddhist-Related
Scales.
Chapter
36. Self-Compassion Scale (SCS).
Chapter
37.
Self-Compassion Scale for Youth (SCS-Y).
Chapter
38. State Self-Compassion
Scales Long and Short Forms.
Chapter
39. Compassion Scale (CS).
Chapter
40.
Compassionate Love Scale (CLS).
Chapter
41. Nonattachment Scale (NAS).-
Chapter
42. Self-Other Four Immeasurable (SOFI) Scale.
Chapter
43.
Appreciative Joy Scale (AJS).
Chapter
44. Interconnectedness Scale.
Chapter
45. Compassionate Engagement and Action Scales.
Chapter
46. Fears of
Compassion Scales.
Chapter
47. Buddhist Affective Scale (BASS).
Chapter
48.
Santa Clara Brief Compassion Scale (SCBCS).
Chapter
49. Interpersonal
Reactivity Index (IRI).
Chapter
50. Equanimity Scale-16.- Part
7. Behavioral
Assessment of Mindfulness.
Chapter
51. Meditation Breath Attention Scores
(MBAS) and Meditation Experiences Questionnare (MEQ).
Chapter
52. Breath
Counting (BC).
Chapter
53. Daily Mindful Responding Scale (DMRS).
Chapter
54. Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA).
Chapter
55. Single Experience and
Self-Implicit Association Test (SES-IAT).
Chapter
56. The MindfulBreather:
Motion Guided Mindfulness.- Part
7. Mindfulness-Related Assessments.
Chapter
57. Mindfulness Process Questionnaire (MPQ).
Chapter
58. Multidimensional
Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA).
Chapter
59. Meditation Depth
Index (MEDI) and Meditation Depth Questionnaire (MEDEQ).
Chapter
60.
Experiences Questionnaire (EQ).
Chapter
61. Language-Based Measures of
Mindfulness (MEQ).
Chapter
62. Modified Differential Emotions Scale (mDES).-
Chapter
63. Interpersonal Mindfulness Scale.
Chapter
64. Mindfulness-based
Relapse Prevention Adherence and Competence Scale (MBRP-AC).
Chapter
65.
Practice Quality-Mindfulness (PQ-M).
Chapter
66. Determinants of Meditation
Practice Inventory (DMPI).- Part
8. Cognitive and Psychophysiological
Assessments of Mindfulness.
Chapter
67. fMRI and fMRI Task.
Chapter
68.
EEG Neurofeedback.
Chapter
69. Hair Cortisol Concentrations (HCC).
Chapter
70. Event-Related Brain Potentials (ERPs).
Chapter
71. Facial
Electromyography (EMG).
Chapter
72. Emotional Stroop Task.
Chapter
73.
Stroop Task.
Chapter
74. Heart Rate (HR) and Heart Rate Variability (HRV).-
Chapter
75. Alpha-Amylase Measurement.
Chapter
76. Cold Pressor Test.- Part
9. Other Assessments Used in Mindfulness Research.
Chapter
77. Gratitude
Questionnaire.
Chapter
78. Clinical Routine Outcome Measure.
Chapter
79.
Adult Self-Transcendence Inventory.
Chapter
80. Social Connectedness and the
Social Assurance Scales.
Chapter
81. Peace of Mind.- Chapter
82. Perceived
Stress Scale.
Chapter
83. Social Value Questionnaire .
Chapter
84. General
Anxiety Disorder Scale.
Chapter
85. Distress Thermometer.
Chapter
86.
Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale.
Chapter
87. Parental Burnout
Assessment (PBA).
Chapter
88. Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II).-
Chapter
89. Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS).
Chapter
90.
Pain-Related Cognitive Processes Questionnaire (PCPQ).
Chapter
91. Emotion
Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ).
Chapter
92. Attentional Control Scale
(ACS).
Chapter
93. Ruminative Response Scale (RRS).
Chapter
94.
Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS).
Chapter
95. Psychological Needs Scale
(PNS).
Chapter
96. Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI).
Chapter
97. Life Events
Checklist for DSM-5 (LEC-5).
Chapter
98. Professional Quality of Life Scale
(ProQOL).
Chapter
99. Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale (STSS).
Chapter
100.
Brief Resilience Scale (BRS).
Chapter
101. Distress Tolerance Scale (DTS).-
Chapter
102. Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale-Short Form (MC-10).-
Chapter
103. Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D).
Chapter
104. Parenting Stress Index-Short Form (PSI/SF).
Chapter
105. Cognitive
Emotion Regulation Questionnaire-Short Form (CERQ).
Chapter
106. Types of
Positive Affect Scale (TPAS).
Chapter
107. Forms of
Self-Criticism/Self-Reassuring Scale (FSCRS).
Chapter
108. Scale of Body
Connection (SBC).
Chapter
109. White Bear Suppression Inventory (WBSI).-
Chapter
110. Rumination Reflection Questionnaire Short Form (RRQ-SF).
Oleg N. Medvedev, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research spans mindfulness-based interventions, affective disorders, schizophrenia, stroke, and dementia, employing advanced methodological approaches including Generalizability Theory, Rasch measurement models, network analyses, AI and machine learning. He has authored approximately 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and 30 book chapters and is co-author of Mindfulness-Based Intervention Research: Characteristics, Approaches, and Developments and co-editor of International Handbook of Behavioral Health Assessment. Oleg is joint Editor-in-Chief of two international journals: Mindfulness and Journal of Psychology and AI.
Chris Krägeloh, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His research spans health outcome measurement, psychosocial aspects of robotics and AI, and empirical and conceptual studies in mindfulness. He has authored over 150 journal articles and several books, including Mindfulness-Based Intervention Research. Apart from the Handbook of Assessment in Mindfulness Research, he is also a co-editor of another major reference work on assessment, the International Handbook of Behavioral Health Assessment. Chris serves as joint Editor-in-Chief of Mindfulness, the leading journal in the field, and has recently co-launched a new journal, Journal of Psychology & AI.
Richard Siegert, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Rehabilitation in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Auckland University of Technology. He has worked as a clinical psychologist in corrections, mental health, private practice and neurology. He lectured in Psychology at VUW 1991-2002 where he was Director of the Clinical Psychology programme for six years. He was head of the Rehabilitation Teaching and Research Unit at the University of Otago (Wellington) 2002 -2007 before teaching in the Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation at Kings College London from 2007 2012. With almost 200 journal articles and several books to his name, Richards primary research interests focus on mindfulness, measurement and outcomes in mental health, rehabilitation and palliative care. He has been an active mindfulness researcher since 2014 with a special interest in mindfulness and neurological rehabilitation.
Nirbhay N. Singh, PhD, is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, USA. His research interests include mindfulness, behavioral treatment for individuals with disabilities, and assistive technology for supporting individuals with severe, profound, and multiple disabilities. Dr. Singh has served as the founding editor of four international journals, including Mindfulness, and currently serves as the editor of three Springer book series: Mindfulness in Behavioral Health, Evidence-Based Practice in Behavioral Health, and Children and Families. A prolific researcher, he has over 800 publications, including 30 books, 125 book chapters, and more than 650 peer-reviewed journal articles. In addition, he is the Editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Mindfulness, Buddhism, and Other Contemplative Practices.
