Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale.
PHLMS
- What it measures
- dispositional mindfulness; present-moment awareness; acceptance
- Length and format
- 20 items. 5-point Likert (never to very often); 2 subscales (Awareness 10, Acceptance 10) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Validated in Spanish, German, Italian and other languages
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Cardaciotto, L., Herbert, J. D., Forman, E. M., Moitra, E., & Farrow, V. (2008). The assessment of present-moment awareness and acceptance: The Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale. Assessment, 15(2), 204-223.
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