The Italian adaptation of the Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised

Cerca con AIRE(opens in a new window)|View at Publisher| Export | Download | Add to List | More... TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology Volume 22, Issue 1, 1 March 2015, Pages 43-52 The Italian adaptation of the Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (Article) Veneziani, C.A., Voci, A. Department FISPPA, Section of Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, Padova (PD), Italy View references (36) Abstract The Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (CAMS-R; Feldman, Hayes, Kumar, Greeson, & Laurenceau, 2007) consists of 12 items aiming to detect a broad conceptualization of mindfulness. This research intends to create an Italian adaptation of the CAMS-R, to explore its psychometric characteristics, and to investigate initial issues of validity. A questionnaire was administered to 459 respondents. As for the original version, the confirmatory factor analysis sustained a model with four firstorder latent factors and one second-order latent factor. Furthermore, the CAMS-R Italian version showed an acceptable level of internal reliability. Concerning convergent and divergent validity, the CAMS-R Italian version was positively related to the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS; Brown & Ryan, 2003) and negatively to rumination. Finally, we showed that the scale is likely to be vulnerable to socially desirable responding, especially to self-deceptive enhancement. Implications and limits of the study are discussed.