Mindful Partnering: Introducing a Theoretical Construct and Testing Psychometric Properties of the Mindful Partnering Measure.

ABSTRACT: Although evidence suggests many benefits of mindfulness, interpersonal forms of mindfulness are understudied. We present the conceptualization of a novel theoretical construct, mindful partnering, as interpersonal mindfulness with ones' romantic partner; we also present initial validation of the Mindful Partnering Measure (MPM). Participants were 599 individuals from: 1) an undergraduate student sample recruited from a University subject pool (used for exploratory factor analyses, N= 335) and 2) a sample of married adults that was recruited through Mechanical Turk (used for confirmatory factor analyses, N= 264, subsets used for construct validity N= 147, and test-retest analyses N= 53). Results of the EFA and CFA supported a five-factor structure with the subsca

SUBMITTER: Seiter NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9122086 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature