Specific Objectivity of Mindfulness—A Rasch Analysis of the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory

Sauer, Sebastian; Ziegler, Matthias; Danay, Erik; Ives, John A.; Kohls, Niko

doi:10.1007/s12671-012-0145-y

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“…When it comes to DIF regarding the age of the participants, findings reported in the present study show that, overall, the MAP does not favor, nor is biased against older and Younger respondentes, despite the fact that some items displayed negligible contrast, and that only one item showed moderate DIF favoring younger respondents. Also, this finding of absence of DIF corroborates previous research on this topic (Medvedev et al, 2016;Sauer et al, 2011), however, on the other side, our result is different of the findings described by Sauer et al (2013), whose authors reported strong DIF in seven items of the FMI, when considering theage of the respondents.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

“…In this sense, it is likely that these differences be reflecting women´s vulnerability to anxiety, since women tend to react best to negative stimuli than to positive, when compared with men (Gardener, Carr, MacGregor, & Felmingham, 2013). Additionally, within the scope of the construct of mindfulness, our findings reiterate the study by Sauer et al (2013), whose results indicate that the FMI functions similarly to men and women.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 69%

“…In this study, item-DIF was not present for any of the tested groups. However, differently, in a further study of DIF with this same instrument, Sauer, et al (2013) reported DIF by sex in item 13 (I am impatient with myself and with others [reverse scored]), despite the fact that the authors did not specify whether this item favored men or women. Also, using the ages median, strong DIF was found for items 2 (I sense my body, whether eating, cooking, cleaning or talking), 3 (When I notice an absence of mind, I gently return to the experience of the here and now), 4 (I am able to appreciate myself), 8 (I accept unpleasant experiences), 9 (I am friendly to myself when things go wrong) and 13 (already mentioned).…”

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confidence: 94%

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Differential item functioning analysis on a measure of mindfulness (MAP)

Pires¹,

Nunes²

2018

Psico

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Analysis of the differential item functioning (DIF) is of great importance when developing or validating psychological instruments, since it enables to identify whether there are bias on a given instrument concerning sample characteristics. Considering this importance, in this study, we verified the presence of DIF within items of a new instrument for the measurement of mindfulness (MAP), regarding the sex, age, practice with meditation, and use of alternative medicine of the sample. For this, 788 Brazilian adults, mean age of 26 years (SD=9.59), most women (79%) and single, responded the MAP. Overall, no DIF was identified with the positively worded items, indicating that the analyzed items do not favor, specifically, any of the groups tested in the present study.***Análise do funcionamento diferencial de uma medida de atenção plena (MAP)***Análise do funcionamento diferencial do item (DIF) é de extrema importância quando se está desenvolvendo ou adaptando instrumentos psicológicos, já que possibilita verificar diferenças nos escores por conta de variáveis diversas àquela mensurada pelo instrumento. Neste estudo, verificamos a presença de DIF nos itens de uma nova medida de mindfulness (MAP), considerando o sexo, idade, experiência com meditação, e o uso de medicina alternativa da amostra. Participaram 788 adultos brasileiros, com média de idade de 26 anos (DP=9,59), sendo a maioria mulheres (79%) e solteiros (79%), os quais responderam a MAP. De forma geral, não foram encontrados DIF considerados moderados ou altos na subscala mindfulness. Os resultados indicam que os itens da MAP não favorecem, exclusivamente, nenhum dos grupos testados.

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Differential item functioning analysis on a measure of mindfulness (MAP)

Pires¹,

Nunes²

2018

Psico

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“…The two factors have been labeled ''Presence,'' indicating the awareness of stimuli in the subjective now , and ''Acceptance,'' indicating a nonjudgmental stance toward all kinds of experience (Kohls et al, 2009). One strength of the instrument is that it has been validated using not only classical psychometric methods such as exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (Kohls et al, 2009) but also item response theory (Sauer, Walach, Offenbächer, Lynch, & Kohls, 2011a;Sauer, Ziegler, Danay, Ives, & Kohls, 2013). The instrument consists of 14 items with four answer options.…”

Section: Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (Fmi-14)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mindful in a random forest: Assessing the validity of mindfulness items using random forests methods

Sauer

Lemke

Zinn³

et al. 2015

Personality and Individual Differences

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“…Efforts to use IRT for mindfulness scales have been made on the predecessor to the FFMQ (Medvedev, Siegert, Kersten, & Krägeloh, 2016), the MAAS (Goh, Marais, & Ireland, 2017;Van Dam , Earleywine, & Borders, 2010), and the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (Sauer, Ziegler, Danay, Ives, & Kohls, 2013). Notably, most implementations of IRT models have required either scale unidimensionality or (in the case of the Rasch model) treat multidimensionality as unique cases of multiple unidimensionality (Briggs & Wilson, 2003).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%