Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills.

KIMS

What it measures

dispositional mindfulness; observing; describing; acting with awareness; accepting without judgment

Length and format

39 items. 5-point Likert (never/very rarely true to very often/always true); 4 subscales (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Translated into German, French, Spanish, Italian and others

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

Baer, R. A., Smith, G. T., & Allen, K. B. (2004). Assessment of mindfulness by self-report: The Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills. Assessment, 11(3), 191-206.