___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ FIVE FACET MINDFULNESS QUESTIONNAIRE (long/original version) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 11-06-2015 last updated: 02-22-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 02-22-2022 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements a computerized adaptation of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (original) as described in: Baer, R. A., Smith, G. T., Hopkins, J., Krietemeyer, J., & Toney, L. (2006). Using self-report assessment methods to explore facets of mindfulness. Assessment, 13, 27-45. Baer, R. A., et all. (2008). Construct Validity of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire in Meditating and Nonmeditating Samples. Assessment, 15, 329 Paper and Pencil Form and Scoring instructions can be downloaded from: http://www.ruthbaer.com/academics/index.html Note: while the paper and pencil FFMQ uses fill in the boxes questions (write a number of 1-5 into the box next to each question), this computerized version uses likert-type questions with radiobuttons. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Participants are asked to answer 39 5-point Likert-type questions with the following anchors: "Never or very rarely true", "rarely true", "sometimes true", "often true", "very often or always true". ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 3 minutes to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA FILE INFORMATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The default data stored in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'fivefacetmindfulnessquestionnaire_raw*.iqdat' date, time: date and time script was run with the current group/subjectnumber subject, group, session: with the current subject/groupnumber/session id build: the Inquisit build q*_response: response given (in assigned values) Scale: 1 (never true) - 5 (always true) R = automatically reversed scored questions q*_latency: how much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveypage with this particular question (the last time this particular surveypage was visited) (2) Summary data file: 'fivefacetmindfulnessquestionnaire_summary*.iqdat' (a separate file for each participant) inquisit.version: Inquisit version run computer.platform: the platform the script was run on (win/mac/ios/android) startDate: date script was run startTime: time script was started subjectid: assigned subject id number groupid: assigned group id number sessionid: assigned session id number elapsedTime: time it took to run script (in ms); measured from onset to offset of script completed: 0 = script was not completed (prematurely aborted); 1 = script was completed (all conditions run) calculate scores for the 5 subscales (see descriptions under section 'Scoring'): Observing Describing ActingWithAwareness NonJudgingofInnerExperience NonReactivitytoInnerExperience combinedscore: calculates the combined score ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ QUESTIONNAIRE SET-UP & SCORING ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 39 5-point Likert-type questions on 5 facets/subscales scored on a scale from 1-5: 1) Observing (8 questions, Max: 40 points): "includes noticing or attending to internal and external experiences, such as sensations, cognitions, emotions, sights, sounds, and smells." (Baer et al, 2008, p.330) 2) Describing (8 questions, Max: 40 points): "refers to labeling internal experiences with words." (Baer et al, 2008, p.330) 3) ActingWithAwareness (8 questions, Max: 40 points): "includes attending to one’s activities of the moment and can be contrasted with behaving mechanically while attention is focused elsewhere (often called automatic pilot)." (Baer et al, 2008, p.330) 4) NonjudgingOfInnerExperience (8 questions, Max: 40 points): "refers to taking a nonevaluative stance toward thoughts and feelings." (Baer et al, 2008, p.330) 5) NonreactivityToInnerExperience (7 questions, Max: 35 points): "is the tendency to allow thoughts and feelings to come and go, without getting caught up in or carried away by them." (Baer et al, 2008, p.330) Scoring: higher scores represent higher levels of mindfulness ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ can be edited under section Editable Parameters. The original wording is: "Please rate each of the following statements using the scale provided. Write the number in the blank that best describes your own opinion of what is generally true for you" ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EDITABLE CODE ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ check below for (relatively) easily editable parameters, stimuli, instructions etc. Keep in mind that you can use this script as a template and therefore always "mess" with the entire code to further customize your experiment. The parameters you can change are: /pageinstructions: the instructions that appear at the top of each surveypage