A Brief Spanish Version of the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM). A Dispositional Mindfulness Measure.

Guerra Guerra,Suárez-Jurado Suárez-Jurado,Cordón Cordón,Mestre Mestre,García-Gómez García-Gómez,Turanzas Turanzas

doi:10.3390/ijerph16081355

Abstract

Dispositional Mindfulness (DM) is the awareness of the thoughts and feelings in the present moment. DM in children and adolescents has been related to mechanisms of change in mindfulness-based interventions, which have shown significant mediation relationships with mental health outcomes (for instance, lower social anxiety, depression symptoms, or perceived stress). However, the assessment of DM among children and adolescents is being unsatisfactory due cultural biases and/or reliability issues. In this study, we examined the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM) in a sample of 687 children and adolescents between 8 and 16 years old. Although the CAMM has been validated in English, Portuguese, Italian, and Catalonian versions, until now no data has been reported in a Spanish context. Results showed that the best CAMM factor structure was constituted by five items from the original version (1, 4, 7, 8, and 9). These items defined dispositional mindfulness. The rest of the items (2, 3, 5, 6, and 10) were eliminated from the Spanish final version. The analyses revealed good reliability and internal consistency for the Spanish version of the CAMM. As we expected, the confirmatory factor analysis showed the unidimensional structure of the CAMM.

Highlights

Mindfulness is defined as a process of bringing a certain quality of attention to moment-by-moment experience that starts with bringing awareness to current experience by regulating the focus of attention [1]
The study was compliant with the following ethical standards: the 1964-Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards and, according to the Article 13.1 of the Spanish Organic Law of Data Protection, the “data of persons over fourteen years of age may be processed with their consent, except in those cases in which the Law requires the assistance of the holders of parental authority or guardianship
Dispositional Mindfulness (DM) did not tend to perceive a higher quality of feeling positive affect, DM was negatively related to negative affect

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Introduction

Mindfulness is defined as a process of bringing a certain quality of attention to moment-by-moment experience that starts with bringing awareness to current experience by regulating the focus of attention [1]. Dispositional mindfulness (DM) has been defined as awareness of the thoughts and feelings in the present moment [2]. A systematic review conducted by Tomlinson et al pointed out how DM was related to the psychological health of young people. Authors reviewed non-interventional and quantitative DM’s articles in non-clinical samples [4]. According to their revision, DM was negatively related to non-adaptative emotions (such as anxiety or depression symptoms), and positively linked to adaptative

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