Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills

Mindfulness as an Intervention for Improving Academic Success among Students with Executive Functioning Disorders

“…Thus, promoting metacognitive awareness through intentional reflection upon both positive and negative emotional states could very easily translate from the personal to academic realms: encouraging students to be purposely selective in their actions. Furthermore, mindfulness has also been shown to decrease neuroticism and increase harm avoidance while supporting increases in openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness (Baer, Smith, & Allen, 2004;Brown & Ryan, 2003). In these ways, mindfulness has the potential to help individuals achieve more balance in their lives, especially during stressful times or when dealing with overwhelming emotional states.…”

Buddhist psychology: Selected insights, benefits, and research agenda for consumer psychology

“…Full scales, or select items thereof, can be utilized to verify individuals' degree of adherence to Buddhist psychology (see, e.g., Gilgen & Cho, 1979; Pace, 2013). Other scales have been developed for assessing trait mindfulness, including (1) the mindfulness attention awareness scale (MAAS; Brown & Ryan, 2003, 15 items) that determines the tendency to be attentive to and aware of present‐moment experiences; (2) the shortened form of the Freiburg mindfulness scale (FMI; Walach et al, 2006, 14 items) that measures present‐moment observation and openness to negative experiences; and (3) the Kentucky inventory of mindfulness skills (KIMS; Baer et al, 2004, 39 items) that assesses four different facets of Buddhist mindfulness (observing, describing, acting with awareness, and nonjudgmental acceptance). While these scales have similarities, their differences could matter across alternative projects.…”

Are the DSM‐IV Personality Disorders Related to Mindfulness? An Italian Study on Clinical Participants

“…Consistent with the notion that mindfulness is associated with clarity of awareness and an objective or unbiased processing of experience, self‐report measures of mindfulness have been associated with stronger affect regulation abilities. Additionally, mindfulness may contribute to greater awareness, understanding, and acceptance of emotions as well as a greater ability to correct or repair unpleasant mood states (Brown & Ryan, ; Baer, Smith, & Allen, ). This self‐report, correlational research has been corroborated and extended by fMRI research examining the neural substrates of emotional reactivity and repair (Creswell, Way, Eisenberger, & Lieberman, ).…”

“…However, few studies are currently available on this topic. Baer et al () showed that BPD patients scored significantly lower on mindfulness measures than did a control group of undergraduate students. Recently, Wupperman et al () showed in a sample of 342 young nonclinical adults that mindfulness significantly and negatively predicted BPD features, even after controlling for the effects of negative affectivity, impulsivity, and emotional and interpersonal dysfunction.…”

“…Furthermore, research on the relationship between mindfulness and DSM‐IV PD diagnoses is likely to have been hampered by methodological problems in assessing mindfulness. Indeed, several instruments for assessing mindfulness recently have become available, such as the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (FMI; e.g., Walach et al, ), the Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills (KIMS; Baer et al, ), the FFMQ (Baer et al, ), and the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS; Brown & Ryan, ; Carlson & Brown, ). The most widely used and validated mindfulness scales (Christopher, Charoensuk, Gilbert, Neary, & Pearce, ) are the KIMS (based on Linehan's [] model of mindfulness; Baer et al, ), the FFMQ (a psychometrically improved version of the KIMS; Baer et al, ), and the MAAS (Brown & Ryan, ; Brown, 2005).…”