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Development and Standardization of Mindfulness Qualities Scale for College Students


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With the increasing demands, we are put on a 24x7 clock running behind goals, weekend targets. Mindfulness provides an opportunity to open doors to the beauty of present moment. With empirical evidence supporting the benefits of mindfulness, an indigenous scale is essential. This study focused on developing an indigenous scale to measure the various affective and cognitive qualities that fosters mindfulness as conceptualized by Jon Kabat-Zinn and Shauna-Shapiro, Jeffrey-Schwartz. An intensive set of focus group discussion, trial run and expert reviews were done. Post expert reviews, a sample of 105 college students were given the scale to assess the Internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha 0.796) and Test Retest reliability of 0.548 respectively. Concurrent validity of the scale based upon its relation with Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (Greg Feldman, Adele Haves, Sameet, Kumar, Jeff Greeson, & Jean Philippe Laurenceau, 2006) is found to be 0.576. Item were reduced throughout the standardization procedure and a final version of 30 item scale with the response category- Never, Sometimes, Often, Always was formulated along with norms. The scale shall be extended further beyond college population.
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B. Arunya
Department of Psychology, PSG College of Arts and Science, Affiliated to Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India
P. Thamilselvan
Department of Psychology, PSG College of Arts and Science, Affiliated to Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India

Abstract


With the increasing demands, we are put on a 24x7 clock running behind goals, weekend targets. Mindfulness provides an opportunity to open doors to the beauty of present moment. With empirical evidence supporting the benefits of mindfulness, an indigenous scale is essential. This study focused on developing an indigenous scale to measure the various affective and cognitive qualities that fosters mindfulness as conceptualized by Jon Kabat-Zinn and Shauna-Shapiro, Jeffrey-Schwartz. An intensive set of focus group discussion, trial run and expert reviews were done. Post expert reviews, a sample of 105 college students were given the scale to assess the Internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha 0.796) and Test Retest reliability of 0.548 respectively. Concurrent validity of the scale based upon its relation with Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (Greg Feldman, Adele Haves, Sameet, Kumar, Jeff Greeson, & Jean Philippe Laurenceau, 2006) is found to be 0.576. Item were reduced throughout the standardization procedure and a final version of 30 item scale with the response category- Never, Sometimes, Often, Always was formulated along with norms. The scale shall be extended further beyond college population.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15614/ijpp%2F2017%2Fv8i1%2F147215