Validation of a French version of the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory - short version: relationships between mindfulness and stress in an adult population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Whereas interest in incorporating mindfulness into interventions in medicine is growing, data on the relationships of mindfulness to stress and coping in management is still scarce. This report first presents a French validation of the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory-short form (FMI) in a middle-aged working population. Secondly, it investigates the relationship between psychological adjustment and mindfulness.

Methods

Five hundred and six non-clinical middle-aged working individuals rated themselves on the self-report French version FMI and completed measures of psychological constructs potentially related to mindfulness levels.

Results

Results were comparable to results of the original short version. Internal consistency of the scale based on the one-facto

SUBMITTER: Trousselard M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2927476 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature