Nursing Department, University Federal of Maranhão, Imperatriz, MA, Brazil
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
J Nurs Meas. 2023 Nov 29;31(4):569-579. doi: 10.1891/JNM-2021-0096.
The Langer Mindfulness Scale (LMS) is distinguished from other mindfulness scales by its dimensions, which are closely related to the awareness and experience of novelty, and by being a scale derived from a cognitive perspective of information processing. There are no mindfulness instruments of this type available in Brazil. Therefore, this study aimed to carry out a translation and cultural adaptation of the LMS into Brazilian Portuguese and to validate and assess the internal consistency and convergent construct validity of the translated instrument. The study had two distinct stages: (a) translation and cultural adaptation of the LMS into Brazilian Portuguese and (b) validation of the adapted instrument using a sample of 543 participants. The Brazilian version of the LMS demonstrated acceptable internal consistency, with confirmatory factor analysis supporting the original four-factor model. Correlations between LMS, and the Five Facets of Mindfulness Questionnaire and the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale were statistically significant and in the expected directions. Our findings suggest that the Brazilian version of LMS, with its four dimensions, presents acceptable psychometric properties and seems to be a reliable and valid instrument for assessing the state of mindfulness in a Brazilian cultural context.
朗格正念量表（LMS）与其他正念量表的区别在于其维度，它与新颖性的意识和体验密切相关，并且是一种源自信息处理认知视角的量表。巴西没有这种类型的正念工具。因此，本研究旨在将 LMS 翻译成巴西葡萄牙语，并验证和评估翻译工具的内部一致性和收敛结构效度。该研究有两个不同的阶段：（a）将 LMS 翻译成巴西葡萄牙语和（b）使用 543 名参与者的样本验证改编后的工具。LMS 的巴西版本表现出可接受的内部一致性，验证性因素分析支持原始的四因素模型。LMS 与五因素正念问卷和正念注意意识量表之间的相关性在统计学上是显著的，且方向符合预期。我们的研究结果表明，具有四个维度的 LMS 巴西版本具有可接受的心理测量特性，似乎是一种可靠和有效的工具，可用于评估巴西文化背景下的正念状态。
