Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Female; Humans; Middle Aged; Mindfulness/methods; Psychometrics/instrumentation; Reproducibility of Results; Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological/diagnosis; Surveys and Questionnaires/standards; Young Adult; Mindfulness; Psychometrics; Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological; Surveys and Questionnaires; Gender Studies; Sociology and Political Science; Psychology (all); History and Philosophy of Science; General Psychology
Abstract :
[en] It has been recently demonstrated that mindfulness-based intervention may be particularly suitable for addressing sexual difficulties in women. Although the Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) is currently one of the most widely used scales to assess mindfulness, no adaptation and validation of the FFMQ to measure female sexual functioning has been published. The main aim of this study was to develop and validate a sexual version of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-S) to specifically measure mindfulness in the context of sexual encounters. A total of 251 healthy, French-speaking female volunteers were administered the FFMQ-S, the original FFMQ, and the Female Sexual Distress Scale (FSDS-R). Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that the FFMQ-S exhibits a five-factor model, as implied by the original FFMQ. Good scale reliability was observed. The FFMQ-S showed significant correlations with the FSDS-R and the usual FFMQ. Scores on the FFMQ-S correlated significantly more negatively with the total FSDS-R score than with the total score of the original version of the FFMQ. These findings clearly support the relevance of developing a version of the FFMQ tailored to sexual functioning.
Disciplines :
Treatment & clinical psychology
Author, co-author :
Adam, Françoise ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Psychologie de la Sexualité ; a Psychological Sciences Research Institute , Université catholique de Louvain
Heeren, Alexandre; Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium
Day, James; Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
de Sutter, Pascal; Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Language :
English
Title :
Development of the Sexual Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-S): Validation Among a Community Sample of French-Speaking Women.
Alexandre Heeren (postdoctoral research fellow) is funded by the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS, Belgium). The writing of this article was also supported by the Bourse d’Excellence Scientifi-que de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles-International (awarded to Alexandre Heeren). However, these funds did not exert any editorial direction or censorship on any part of this article.
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