Psychometric Evaluation of Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM) with Turkish Sample

Authors: Dr. Zeynep Aydin Sünbül

Pages: 56-59

Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric features as well as the correlates of Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM) in Turkish adolescents. In total, 221 adolescents (125 female, 86 male) attended to the study. CFA analysis was used to examine the initially offered one factor structure of CAMM. So as to check the convergent and incremental validity, Mindful Attention Awareness Scale- Adolescent version (Brown, West, Loverich, & Biegel, 2011) SelfCompassion Scale (Neff, 2003) and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (Gratz & Roemer, 2004) were also utilized. The findings of CFA promoted the single factor CAMM in Turkish adolescents. In addition CAMM came out to have positive correlations to MAASA (r=.56, p