Abstract
The mindfulness approach to psychotherapy has become a topic of continuously growing scientific interest. In accordance with such interest, various self-report assessment tools have been developed to measure the mindfulness construct. The majority of the studies conducted to investigate the properties of these assessment instruments included Western populations. Thus, the measurement of mindfulness in non-Western cultures still requires further research. Based on this premise, the psychometric properties of the 10 item Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (CAMS-R) were investigated in two different studies using two non-clinical Turkish samples. In Study 1, the psychometric properties of the 10 item CAMS-R were examined in an undergraduate student sample (N = 265). Study 2 extended the examination of the psychometric properties of the CAMS-R to an adult community sample consisting of white-collar public employees (N = 88). The results of both studies showed that the Turkish CAMS-R possessed acceptable levels of internal consistency and the scale displayed convergent as well as concurrent validity. Statistically meaningful relationships were found between mindfulness as measures by Turkish CAMS-R and depression, anxiety, well-being as well as perceived stress. The findings from both studies suggest CAMS-R retains its psychometric properties when utilized in a non-Western culture and the Turkish version of CAMS-R is a valid instrument which can be used to measure mindfulness in the Turkish population.
Highlights
Mindfulness and acceptance based approaches to psychotherapy are the focus of regularly increasing scientific interest
The results showed that the Turkish version of Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (CAMS-R) demonstrated accepted levels of internal consistency
The results of the confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the internal structure of the Turkish version of CAMS-R retained the second-order factor structure reported for the original version
Summary
Mindfulness and acceptance based approaches to psychotherapy are the focus of regularly increasing scientific interest. One way of overcoming this obstacle is to create psychometrically sound and conceptually accurate assessment instruments for mindfulness construct. This is a notion which emerged as a mainstream in the research related mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches. The developers of the MAAS suggest that only present focused attention and awareness are fundamental to mindfulness Attitudional aspects such as acceptance remain peripheral to the measurement of mindfulness. Multi-factor mindfulness scales include items developed to measure attitudional components of mindfulness such as non-judgment and acceptance. These multi-dimensional instruments offer means of comprehensive assessment. A trade-off between brevity and detailed measurement occurs as a natural consequence of the inclusion of multiple factors
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