Self-Report Assessment of Mindfulness and the Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

Mindfulness refers to nonjudgmental present-moment awareness of internal and external stimuli. It can be culti-vated through meditation and behavioral skills training, and a large treatment literature shows that these proce-dures have beneficial effects on a range of disorders, including substance use disorders (Keng, Smoski, & Robins, 2011; Zgierska et al., 2009). Mindfulness has also been conceptualized as a dispositional characteristic that varies in the general population, and several self-report measures of mindfulness have been developed. A growing body of literature suggests that such measures are psycho-metrically sound, and that higher levels of self-reported dispositional mindfulness are associated with adaptive functioning (Baer, 2011). Of these self-report measures, the Five-Facet Mindfulnes