Psychometric properties of the short version of the Five Facets of Mindfulness Questionnaire in Brazilian Portuguese

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About the authors:

Daniela Fernández Curado is a biomedical scientist, MSc in Psychobiology from Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Collaborator of Nepsis (Research Center on Health and Substance use), with research focused on mindfulness, chronic hypnotic use, statistical models and psychometry. E-mail: dani.fc@live.com

Giovana Gonçalves Gallo is a biomedical scientist, undergraduate student in Nursing at Universidade de São Paulo and a doctoral student at the Department of Psychobiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Collaborator of Nepsis (Research Center on Health and Substance Use), with research focused on mindfulness, university students and substance use. E-mail: gallo_giovana@yahoo.com.br

Mayra Pires Alves Machado is an occupational therapist, mindfulness instructor (founding member of Medita Nepsis and Plenativamente), specialist in psychiatry, substance use disorders and PhD in Psychobiology from Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Researches mindfulness-based interventions at Nepsis (Research Center on Health and Substance Use). E-mail: Mayra.pamachado@gmail.com

Viviam Vargas de Barros is a psychologist, certified teacher of mindfulness and compassion (founding member of Medita Nepsis and Centro de Promoção de Mindfulness), master in Psychology from Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora and doctor in Psychobiology from Universidade Federal de São Paulo, researching the validation of mindfulness scales and Mindfulness-based interventions for insomnia, respectively. E-mail: viviamvb@yahoo.com.br

Ana Regina Noto is a professor at the graduate program of Psychobiology at Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Coordinator of Nepsis (Research Center on Health and Substance Use). Main study topics: alcohol / drug use among adolescents and populations in social vulnerability; mindfulness and mental health. E-mail: anareginanoto@gmail.com

Category		N	%
Sex	Male	111	27.2
	Female	297	72.8
Age group	18 to 25	137	33.6
	26 to 44	93	22.8
	45 to 64	153	37.5
	65 or more	21	5.1
Missing = 4
Marital status	Single	213	52.2
	Married	129	31.6
	Divorced	51	12.5
	Widowed	11	2.7
Missing = 4
Monthly income (minimum wages)¹	Up to 3	200	49.0
	3 to 6	108	26.5
	6 to 10	53	13.0
	More than 10	42	10.3
Missing = 5
Schooling	Elementary school (complete or incomplete)	104	25.5
	High school (complete or incomlpete)	87	21.3
	College (complete or incomplete)	217	53.2

Questionnaire	Model	χ² (df)	p	RMSEA [90 CI]	CFI	SRMR
FFMQ-SF (24 items, selected by Bohlmeijer et al., 2011Bohlmeijer, E., ten Klooster, P. M., Fledderus, M., Veehof, M., & Baer, R. (2011). Psychometric properties of the five facet mindfulness questionnaire in depressed adults and development of a short form. Assessment, 18(3), 308-320. doi: 10.1177/1073191111408231 https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191111408231... )	Correlated, 5-factor	443.87 (242)	<0.001	.045 [.039; .052]	.886	.072
	Correlated, 5-factor, correlated negative and positive scoring	247.79 (217)	<0.001	.019 [.00; .028]	.985	.046
	Bifactor model	434.51 (228)	<0.001	.047 [.041; .053]	.889	.094

Short form		Nonjudge	Actaware	Describe	Nonreact	Observe
SWBS	Positive Affect	.009	.30*	.42*	.36*	.35*
	Negative Affect	.23*	.41*	.36*	.27*	.20*
	Life Satisfaction	.21*	.31*	.28*	.22*	.17*
	Total	.18*	.41*	.42*	.33*	.28*

	B	SE	95% CI	p
Nonjudge	.23	.12	[-.34; .014]	0.065
Actaware	.28	0.09	[-.46; -.091]	0.0042*
Describe	.91	0.19	[.52; .1.30]	<0.001*
Nonreact	.41	0.062	[.29; .54]	<0.001*
Observe	.77	.19	[-.49; 0.064]	0.0011*

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