The Latent Structure Of Mindful Perception

Background:Mindful perception is the experience that individuals devote attention to the moment and it’s an acceptable attitude to the experience, it’s not only a perception state and trait but also a kind of psychological intervention techniques. As a technical intervention, the function that mindful perception can reduce depression emotion and prevent the recurrence of depression has been generally recognized. But, the measurement research on mindful perception limited in the revision and development of mindful perception scale and the previous studies explore the role of mindful perception in despite of the perspective of qualitative difference, most of the studies assumed the objects to be homogeneous. The foreign researches have shown that the role of perception on different latent classes of subjects have different effects. Based on the previous studies, this study takes three different study methods of exploratory analysis to form the view of the quality inspection of different categories of subjects.Objects and Methods:In this study, we selected 685 college students from 6 universities in Zhejiang province and Henan Province as the subjects. Through the discussion on several existing mindfulness scales, we decided to use the five facet mindfulness questionnaire (FFMQ) as a measurement of the subjects’level of mindfulness and the self rating depression scale (SDS) to measure the level of the subjects. Prior to the implementation of the test, the questionnaire was validated by confirmatory factor analysis to test the scientificalness of the test data. We use the Rasch model, mixed Rasch model and latent class model to the test data at the same time, and the data analysis software, such as Mplus software, WINMIRA2001, Amos21.0, SPSS21.0 and so on. The three models represent different types of psychological internal structure:continuous or classified.Results and Conclusions:In the analysis process of test results, the model selection, model fit, latent class name and latent class feature were mainly analyzed, the results showed that the mixed model fit the model for each latent class of approximately good, it can objectively characterizations the mindfulness perception feature. College students’ mindfulness perception latent class is classified, It has four latent classes, named:"high levels of mindful perception", "self perception tendency", "environmental perception tendency" and "low levels of mindful perception", the proportion were 36.2%,29.3%,21.6% and 12.9%. Each latent class has its own characteristic, subjects in "high levels of mindful perception" group can profoundly aware of the common experience of the external environment and self factors, they can get higher scores in describing these perceptions factors; subjects in "self perception tendency" will be aware of self factors, such as emotion, thinking, physiology, the items describing self factors tend to get high scores while other items score is relatively low; subjects in "environmental awareness tendency" turn the attention point to the external factors, such as the other persons, natural environment and so on, these subjects have higher levels of mindfulness when they aware the environmental factors; "low level of mindfulness" were tested in all situations to better mindfulness, this kind of subjects is difficult to enter the state of mindfulness perception. The results reveal the intervention effect of different perception tendency (latent class) on depression and this intervention mechanism and its application will become a hot research direction of current and future.