The Development Of Questionnaire To Measure Mindfulness

With the development of society, people pay more attention to their physical and mental health.Mindfulness has been knowd as as a kind of spiritual training activities, In order to relax the body, reducing stress and anxiety, More and more people began to practice mindfulness. Therefore how to measure people’s mindfulness leves is necessary. In this paper the mindfulness as a personality trait, based on summarizing the documents and discussing with psychological experts,3dimensions were designed,which were Focusing attention on the present, Experience awareness, attitude of no evaluation and accept. And mindfulness Initial questionnaire were developed. After that, We passed through three Survey, there are960College student were surveyed, and832valid questionnaires are withdrawn. After analyzing the possible factors and repeatedly revising the initial test questionnaire, a formal scale formed. The formal mindfulness questionnaire included22test items and4dimensions, namely Focusing attention on the present, Body awareness,Emotional awareness,Self-acceptance.1020College student surveyed with this formal scale, we got912valid questionnaires. Confirmatory factor analysis of912data demonstrated that the construct validity of midfulness questionnaire was good, and we also examin the reliability and validity, Through confirmatory factor analysis and others method.at the same time the characteristics of the views of mindfulness were examined on participants of different gender, grade,age,and major,。 Finally,we investigated the relationship of mindfulness and subjective well-being, and self-esteem, results show that.(1) Questionnaire of mindfulness was a multi-dimensional model, consisted of22items and4dimensions.(Focusing attention on the present, Body awareness, Emotional awareness, Self-acceptance)(2)mindfulness questionnair has good reliability and validity which can be used as an effective measurement of people’s mindfulness. (3) There were significant differences among participants of different genders,grade,age in some dimensions. Male scored more than female in Body awareness. Participants who aged17-18scored more than others in mindful questionnair, and Freshman scored more than Sophomore and Junior in mindful questionnair,but There were no significant differences for majior.(4) mindful questionnaire has a significant negative correlation with self-esteem (that means that the the higher score of mindful questionnair, the higher the self-evaluation); mindful questionnaire has a significant negative correlation with trait anxiety, has a significant positive correlation with positive coping styles,has a negative correlation with correlation with negative coping styles,(but the correlation is not significant).(5) Mindfulness and well-being have a close relationship, has a significant positive correlation with well-being,after Mediation analysis we find self-esteem is a partial mediator between mindfulness and well-being.