Validation of the factor structure of the Five Facets of Mindfulness Questionnaire in men diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer
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Mindfulness interventions are increasingly popular in cancer care, emerging in both literature and practice. Evidence suggests that mindfulness is helpful for women diagnosed with breast cancer, but this may not be the case in other settings. To understand when, how, and which mindfulness skills promote effective coping with cancer, well‐validated measures are needed.\nThe Five Facets of Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) is a self-report measure of engagement in mindfulness practices. The five facets include observing or noticing ones' reaction, ability to describe this reaction, acting with awareness, nonjudging of inner experience, and nonreactivity to inner experience. The FFMQ was originally validated with university students and is widely used to measure mindfulness for patients with noncommunicable disease (depression), including cancer. However, these studies overrepresent women with breast cancer, present a factor structure that differs in clinical populations from that originally proposed, and none examine construct validity of the FFMQ in cancer populations. Accordingly, we validated the FFMQ using confirmatory factor analysis in men diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer (PCa).
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Acting with awareness consistently predicted various health measures and their close linkages are in line with previous findings.
“Acting with awareness consistently predicted various health measures and their close linkages are in line with previous findings [19, 23, 27].”
From Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire—short form in cancer patients: a Bayesian structural equation modeling approach (2021) · cites this paper as [27]
The Results (p. 5) report significant correlations between mindfulness facets, distress, and quality of life, and say these findings concur with previous work. The Discussion also reports that acting with awareness correlated with higher health-related quality of life and lower psychological distress in men with advanced prostate cancer. Neither passage establishes that acting with awareness consistently predicted health measures; the reported relationships are correlations. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredIn cancer patients, the only psychometric study revealed a six-factor structure rather than the original five-factor structure for the FFMQ in a sample of prostate cancer patients.
“In the context of cancer patients, the only psychometric study [27] revealed a six-factor structure rather than the original five-factor structure for the FFMQ in a sample of prostate cancer patients.”
In the previous psychometric study on FFMQ in prostate cancer patients, acting with awareness emerged as two separate and moderately correlated factors of awareness and attention.
“In the previous psychometric study on FFMQ in prostate cancer patients [27], acting with awareness emerged as two separate and moderately correlated factors of awareness and attention.”
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- Authors
- Laurie, K., Hyde, M. K., Lepore, S. J., & Chambers, S. K.
- Affiliations
- Griffith University (AU)
- Temple University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Chambers, Suzanne K.
- Venue
- Psycho-Oncology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-06-29
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1061-1064
- ISSN
- 1057-9249 (ISSN-L)
- 1099-1611
- OpenAlex
- W2626523385
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2021: 4
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Locations
- Psycho-Oncology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
- Australasian Journal of Paramedicine (submittedVersion)
- OPUS - Open Publications of UTS Scholars (University of Technology Sydney) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Health and Medical Research Council (APP1024989)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Keywords
- factor structure, mindfulness, advanced prostate cancer, men, construct validity, coping with cancer, mindfulness-based interventions
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