Standardization of Langer Mindfulness Scale in Women Teachers

Mindfulness is a strategy that is being used with increased frequency and receiving mainstream acceptance around the world as a means to enhance both students and teachers wellbeing. The Langer Mindfulness Scale is constructed by Langer (2004) and contains scales for assessing engagement, novelty producing, flexibility, and novelty seeking. In the first step, validity of translation of 21-item Langer Mindfulness Scale has confirmed by several experts. Data were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis. Principal component analysis with Varimax rotation extracted four factors. Despite the reduction of items, the constructions remained the same as original scale and then performed by 385 women teachers were selected by using a multi-steps cluster randomized sampling method Coefficient for factors computed 0/51-0/75. The present study is conducted in order to validate Langer Mindfulness Scale in women teachers. A 14-item scale with 4 factors was extracted which justifies %40/07 of the variance.