Adaptation of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale into Turkish

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to adapt Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) developed Brown & Ryan (2003) into Turkish on a group of university students. The original and Turkish versions of the scale were administered to English language teaching students and significant positive correlations between Turkish and English version scores were found. To determine the construct validity of MAAS, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were employed and analyses showed a strong single factor solution. The relation for all items of the scale was calculated above .40 as a result of item total correlations. The factor loading was between .48 and .81 for each item of the MAAS. The Cronbach’s Alpha internal consistency of the scale was .80 and test-retest correlation was .86. There were significant positive relationships with respect to the correlation analysis employed for the Discriminated Validity of MAAS.