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[O-16-03]Validation of the Embodied Mindfulness Questionnaire (EMQ) in a Chinese Context: Preliminary Evidence for Cross-cultural Measurement Invariance
*Jieting Zhang1, Ruixi Ji1, Rodrigo Clemente Vergara2,3, Mingcong Tang4, Bassam Khoury5 (1.College of Psychology, Shenzhen University(China), 2.Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial CENIA(Chile), 3.Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de La Educación(Chile), 4.Boston University(United States of America), 5.McGill University(Canada))
Keywords:
Embodiment,Mindfulness,Embodied Mindfulness Questionnaire,Cross-cultural validation,Measurement invariance
Objectives: The Embodied Mindfulness Questionnaire (EMQ), based on the notion of embodied mindfulness and the theory of embodiment, has been developed and validated among an English Canadian population but not yet among Eastern populations. The current study aimed to validate a Chinese version of the EMQ and examine its cross-cultural measurement invariance.
Methods: In Study 1, we translated the EMQ into Chinese, explored its factor structure and then examined its internal validity using a sample of Chinese adults (N = 330). In Study 2, after excluding participants with over 600 hours of meditation practice, we assessed the reliability and validity of the EMQ using a separate sample of Chinese adults (N = 380). Then, multiple confirmatory factor analyses was used to examine the measurement invariance of EMQ between the Chinese and Canadian samples (N = 1077).
Results: The original five-factor structures were replicated with acceptable internal reliability and construct and criterion-related validity. Only configural and metric invariance were supported between the Chinese and Canadian samples. Differences in item intercepts, residual variances, and latent variable covariances suggest potential cultural differences in conceptualizing and measuring embodied mindfulness.
Conclusions: The Chinese EMQ replicated the five-factor structure of the original version, with reasonably acceptable reliability and validity. The Chinese samples showed smaller intercepts and larger residual variance for most items, and inequivalent factor covariances.
Methods: In Study 1, we translated the EMQ into Chinese, explored its factor structure and then examined its internal validity using a sample of Chinese adults (N = 330). In Study 2, after excluding participants with over 600 hours of meditation practice, we assessed the reliability and validity of the EMQ using a separate sample of Chinese adults (N = 380). Then, multiple confirmatory factor analyses was used to examine the measurement invariance of EMQ between the Chinese and Canadian samples (N = 1077).
Results: The original five-factor structures were replicated with acceptable internal reliability and construct and criterion-related validity. Only configural and metric invariance were supported between the Chinese and Canadian samples. Differences in item intercepts, residual variances, and latent variable covariances suggest potential cultural differences in conceptualizing and measuring embodied mindfulness.
Conclusions: The Chinese EMQ replicated the five-factor structure of the original version, with reasonably acceptable reliability and validity. The Chinese samples showed smaller intercepts and larger residual variance for most items, and inequivalent factor covariances.