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Original Source: Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire-Reliability and Factor Structure: A Swedish Version.
Two studies were conducted to assess the Swedish version of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), which was originally created by Baer et al. (2006). The aim of Study 1 was to examine the psychometric properties of the FFMQ using data from 495 individuals. Quantitative and qualitative analyses resulted in a reduction of the scale by 10 items. Psychometric properties, including internal consistency of the revised instrument, were examined. The Swedish FFMQ provides results comparable to those obt...
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Psychologists Question 'Universal' Personality Traits
For decades, consensus among psychologists has held that a group of five personality traits - or slight variations of these five - are a universal feature of human psychology. However, a study by anth...
Mindfulness meditation reduces loneliness in older adults, study shows
For older adults, loneliness is a major risk factor for health problems -- such as cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's -- and death. A new study offers the first evidence that mindfulness meditatio...
'Universal' personality traits may not be universal after all
(University of California - Santa Barbara) For decades, consensus among psychologists has held that a group of five personality traits -- or slight variations of these five -- are a universal feature...
Learn to Live in the Now [Video]
Being mindful means being acutely aware of what is happening now--rather than drifting into the past or musing about the future--without emotionally reacting to these ongoing events. Maintaining a foc...
The Science Behind Mindfulness
Achieving mindfulness through meditation has helped people maintain a healthy mind by quelling negative emotions and thoughts, such as desire, anger and anxiety, and encouraging more positive disposit...
Strong Link Discovered Between Personality And Grades
In one of three studies, Pia Rosander carried out personality tests on 200 pupils in southern Sweden when they entered upper secondary school at 16. Three years later, when they received their final g...
For older adults, loneliness is a major risk factor for health problems - such as cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's - and death. Attempts to diminish loneliness with social networking programs li...
Mindfulness at school reduces likelihood of depression-related symptoms in adolescents
Secondary school students who follow an in-class mindfulness program report reduced indications of depression, anxiety and stress up to six months later. Moreover, these students were less likely to d...
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Distressed ('Type D') personality, the combination of negative affectivity (NA) and social inhibition (SI), has been associated with adverse health outcomes. The purpose of this study was to examine i...
Objectives Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) was originally developed to prevent relapse in recurrent depression. More recently it has been applied to individuals at high risk of suicide or c...
Mindfulness-based psychotherapy.
Mindfulness-based psychotherapy is rooted in the Far East meditation culture. In the context of psychotherapy mindfulness-based treatment programs mostly include mindfulness as modular components aimi...
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 scar...
Mindfulness-based interventions and mindfulness techniques have become increasingly popular in psychosocial care. These interventions have also been increasingly used with cancer patients and surviv...
