Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory.
FMI
- What it measures
- dispositional mindfulness; presence; acceptance
- Length and format
- 30 items. 4-point Likert (rarely to almost always) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Originally German; English and other-language versions available
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Buchheld, N., Grossman, P., & Walach, H. (2001). Measuring mindfulness in insight meditation (Vipassana) and meditation-based psychotherapy. Journal for Meditation and Meditation Research, 1, 11-34.
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