TY - JOUR
T1 - Evidencias psicométricas de una versión breve de la mindful awareness attention scale en estudiantes universitarios
AU - Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás
AU - García Cadena, Cirilo H.
AU - Reyes-Bossio, Mario
AU - Cabrera-Orosco, Isabel
AU - Oblitas Guadalupe, Luís A.
AU - Arias Gallegos, Walter L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Universidad Nacional de Cordoba - Facultad de Psicologia. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - In recent years, there has been an increase in interventions based on mindfulness to reduce the psychological problems of college students. Therefore, it is necessary to have adequate tools to measure it. Considering this gap, the objective of this study was to perform a psychometric analysis of the five-item version of the Mindful Awareness Attention Scale (MAAS-5) in a sample of 398 Peruvian college students with an average age of 21.14 years (SD = 2.97). To this end, participants were given a battery of tests that included the MAAS-5, WHO-Five Well-Being Index, Patient Health Questionnaire-2, Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale-2 and the Garcia's Anger Proneness Scale. The results indicate that the structure of a factor of the MAAS-5 presents a good fit to the data and an adequate internal consistency. On the other hand, the MAAS-5 shows correlations theoretically consistent with depression, anxiety, anger and well-being, and factorial invariance with respect to sex. In conclusion, this study provides preliminary evidence that support the use of MAAS-5 as an instrument with evidence of validity, reliability and invariance to measure full attention in college students in Peru.
AB - In recent years, there has been an increase in interventions based on mindfulness to reduce the psychological problems of college students. Therefore, it is necessary to have adequate tools to measure it. Considering this gap, the objective of this study was to perform a psychometric analysis of the five-item version of the Mindful Awareness Attention Scale (MAAS-5) in a sample of 398 Peruvian college students with an average age of 21.14 years (SD = 2.97). To this end, participants were given a battery of tests that included the MAAS-5, WHO-Five Well-Being Index, Patient Health Questionnaire-2, Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale-2 and the Garcia's Anger Proneness Scale. The results indicate that the structure of a factor of the MAAS-5 presents a good fit to the data and an adequate internal consistency. On the other hand, the MAAS-5 shows correlations theoretically consistent with depression, anxiety, anger and well-being, and factorial invariance with respect to sex. In conclusion, this study provides preliminary evidence that support the use of MAAS-5 as an instrument with evidence of validity, reliability and invariance to measure full attention in college students in Peru.
KW - Factorial invariance
KW - Mindfulness
KW - Reliability
KW - Validity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079762561&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.32348/1852.4206.v11.n3.24870
DO - 10.32348/1852.4206.v11.n3.24870
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85079762561
SN - 1852-4206
VL - 11
SP - 19
EP - 32
JO - Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento
JF - Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento
IS - 3
ER -