The Development of Chinese Children Mindfulness Measure

• Main Authors: Ying-Ju Lai, 賴瀅如
• Other Authors: Feng-Ying Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/mc95t7

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 教育學系生命教育碩士班 === 104 === The root of Mindfulness originally comes from Buddhist meditation practice. The practice of mindfulness involes focus-attention and open-awareness moment by moment and with acceptance and non-judgemental attitudes toward our daily experiences. Although the concept of mindfulness has been widely adapted to medical, counseling and educational domains, there is still lack of children mindfulness measure in Taiwan . The current research includes two studies to develop and validate the Chinese Children Mindfulness Measure. Study one involved 170 elementary school children from New Taipei city who answered the questionnaires and the result shown that four factors (attention and observation, acceptance, non-judgement, and defusion) were identified from the exploratory factor analysis. Study two involved 618 elementary school children praticipants to test the realibility and validity of the Chinese Children Mindfulness Measure . The findings are as follows: i. The results of the inventory revealed acceptable reliability and construct validity. The Cronbach’s α in the scale was .731. The test-retest reliability of three weeks later after the initial measurement was .913. From the confirmatory factor analysis, it shows the Chinese Children Mindfulness Measure containing four factors and all the model fit indexes revealing the measure has good reliability and validity. ii. There was no difference between the trait of mindfulness according to the Children’ academic status, gender, and their grades. iii. The Chinese Children Mindfulness Measure and optimism subscales scale had significant positive correlation, and had significant negative correlation with pessimism subscales. In addition , the Chinese Children Mindfulness Measure and Children’s Depression Inventory Taiwan Version had significant negative correlation with each other. iv. Finally, the reaserch found that four factors of the Chinese Children Mindfulness Measure had asymmetrical correation of any two factors. The participants were children without mindfulness intervention might be the key factor to contribute the result, however, more research to check the finding is needed.