The adaptation of five facets mindfulness questionnaire into Turkish: Validity and reliability study

The aim of the present study was to adaptate in Turkish and determine the reliability and validity of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire. Because mindfulness is not a well known concept and research area in Turkey, with the aim of increasing researches on it, the adaptation of Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) into Turkish, validity and reliability studies of the scale were done on a group of university students in this study. The original and two weeks later Turkish versions of the scale were administered to Translation and Interpreting Studies and English Language and Literature 4th year undergraduate students and significant positive correlations between Turkish and English version scores were found. The Cronbach?s Alpha internal consistencies of the scale were between .67 and .85. To determine the construct validity of FFMQ, factor analyses were done and it is found that the scale has five factors. The communalities for all items were between .38 and .79. Factor analyses showed that 4th item of the scale belongs to different factor than the original one?s. The test- retest correlations of the scale were between .23 and .71. There were also significant positive relationships with respect to the correlation analysis employed for the convergent and discriminant validity of FFMQ. Futhermore, in this study some of the relationships between FFMQ and demograpgic variables were also checked. The findings of the present study were discussed in the light of the literature and future studies. Key words: Mindfulness, Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire, Validity and Reliability