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

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 instanc...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2019-04, Vol.16 (8), p.1355
Main Authors: Guerra, Joan, García-Gómez, María, Turanzas, Jorge, Cordón, Jose R, Suárez-Jurado, Cristina, Mestre, José Miguel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Age
Anxiety
Child
Children
Children & youth
Consent
Emotions
Ethics
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Female
Guardians
Health Surveys - instrumentation
Humans
Informed consent
Male
Mental depression
Mindfulness
Mindfulness - instrumentation
Parents
Psychometrics - instrumentation
Quantitative psychology
Reproducibility of Results
Spain
Sustainable development
Teenagers
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary: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.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph16081355