Assessing adolescent mindfulness: Validation of an adapted mindful attention awareness scale in adolescent normative and psychiatric populations
- Brown, K., West, A., Loverich, T. & Biegel, G. (2011). Assessing adolescent mindfulness: Validation of an adapted mindful attention awareness scale in adolescent normative and psychiatric populations. Psychological Assessment, 23(4), 1023-1033. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021338
- The focus of this research was to validate a mindfulness measure among adolescents: the Mindful Attention Awareness ScaleAdolescent (MAAS-A). Study 1 tested the reliability and validity of the MAAS-A in a normative sample of adolescents from eight Midwestern public schools. Study 2 examined the utility of the MAAS-A in a clinical context with a sample of adolescent psychiatric outpatients who were randomly assigned to an intervention group who received Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) or treatment-as-usual (control) group
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