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Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills

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Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills
Purposemeasures mindfulness

The Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills (KIMS) is a 39-item self-report measuring Mindfulness on four scales: Observing, Describing, Act With Awareness, and Accept Without Judgment. It was developed at Kentucky University by Baer, Smith, & Allen in 2004.[1][2] A short, 20-item version of it (KIMS-Short) was developed in Germany in 2011 and enables researchers to replicate the basic factor structure. However KIMS-Short shows the Observing subscale as comprising two different but strongly correlated factors depending on whether the observed stimuli are internal or external.[3] Good support has been found for the model of four correlated factors, and the scales have been found to be both highly internally consistent and sensitive to change through Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.[4]

Relation with behavior

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The four scales have been positively correlated with social activity.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Baer, R. A., Smith, G. T., & Allen, K. B. (2004). "Assessment of mindfulness by self-report: The Kentucky inventory of mindfulness skills". Assessment. 11 (3): 191–206. doi:10.1177/1073191104268029. PMID 15358875. S2CID 34718343.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Assessment of Mindfulness by Self-Report - The Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills, Sage Journals, Sept 2004
  3. ^ Höfling, Volkmar; Ströhle, Gunnar; Michalak, Johannes; Heidenreich, Thomas (2011). "A short version of the Kentucky inventory of mindfulness skills". Journal of Clinical Psychology.
  4. ^ Baum, Corinna; Kuyken, Willem; Bohus, Martin; Heidenreich, Thomas; Michalak, Johannes ; Steil, Regina (2009). "The Psychometric Properties of the Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills in Clinical Populations". Assessment.
  5. ^ Mathias Dekeysera, Filip Raesa, Mia Leijssena, Sara Leysena, David Dewulf (2008). "Mindfulnessskills and interpersonal behaviour". Personality and Individual Differences.