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Key Features
- Measures trait mindfulness in adults
- Initially validated in German
- Meanwhile validated English versions have been published
- 37 items
- Includes 8 sub-scales: (1) awareness of internal experiences, (2) awareness of external experiences, (3) acting with awareness, (4) accepting with nonjudgmental attitude, (5) nonreactive decentering, (6) openness to experience, (7) awareness of thoughts’ relativity, and (8) insightful understanding.
- A mix of positively and negatively worded items (some reverse-scoring required)
- Integrates constructs from 8 other mindfulness questionnaires (see Description below)
- The total score, which combines all 8 sub-scales can be considered a meaningful measure of mindfulness
- in 2024 two English language short forms were validated, the CHIME-S with 24-items (3 per sub-scale) and the 16-item CHIME-XS (2 items per sub-scale)
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Description
The CHIME was developed with the aim of covering mindfulness in its full breadth.
