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Key Features
- Measures trait mindfulness
- The most widely used mindfulness questionnaires
- 39 items
- Includes five facets or sub-scales: observing, describing, acting with awareness, non-judging of inner experience, and non-reactivity to inner experience
- Empirical evidence indicates that the analysis should primarily focus on the sub-scales. The use of an overarching mindfulness factor (“total mindfulness”) is less robust and should usually not be used
- A mix of positively and negatively worded items (some reverse-scoring required)
- Developed through a factor analytic study that pulled together five independently developed mindfulness questionnaires and extracted the 39 “best-performing” items to form the FFMQ
- Several short-forms of the FFMQ have been developed.
- The FFMQ and some short forms have been validated in several languages
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Description
The FFMQ is the most widely used trait mindfulness questionnaire, arguably because it conceptualises mindfulness in terms of several components or facets.
