Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of an Arabic version of the Cognitive-Affective Mindfulness Scale (CAMS-R)

Figures & data

Figure 1. Scree plot of the Arabic CAMS-R.

Table 1. The factor loadings of the Arabic CAMS-R.

Items	Focus	Attention	Acceptance	Awareness
I1	0.038	0.819	−0.072	0.038
I2	−0.005	0.791	0.081	−0.018
I3	−0.029	0.867	0.012	−0.004
I4	0.876	−0.066	−0.031	0.056
I5	0.836	0.058	0.049	−0.050
I6	0.804	0.021	0.001	−0.004
I7	0.014	0.052	0.036	0.809
I8	0.026	−0.001	0.065	0.776
I9	−0.021	−0.022	−0.051	0.849
I10	0.014	0.043	0.787	0.016
I11	0.053	0.015	0.786	−0.014
I12	−0.045	−0.041	0.871	0.030

Entries in bold are primary factor loadings. 

Table 2. Internal consistency of the Arabic CAMS-R.

	Items	Scale mean if item deleted		Corrected item-total correlation		Cronbach’s alpha if item deleted		Cronbach’s alpha
		exploratory sample	confirmatory sample	exploratory sample	confirmatory sample	exploratory sample	confirmatory sample	exploratory sample	confirmatory sample
Attention	I1	5.33	5.63	0.736	0.605	0.829	0.736	0.868	0.787
	I2	5.38	5.65	0.749	0.643	0.813	0.694
	I3	5.40	5.66	0.768	0.637	0.796	0.700
Focus	I4	5.29	5.48	0.776	0.696	0.821	0.738	0.880	0.823
	I5	5.30	5.53	0.778	0.679	0.820	0.756
	I6	5.29	5.48	0.747	0.660	0.847	0.774
Awareness	I7	5.43	5.49	0.760	0.688	0.795	0.769	0.865	0.810
	I8	5.40	5.42	0.745	0.693	0.809	0.764
	I9	5.36	5.43	0.726	0.691	0.827	0.766
Acceptance	I10	5.40	5.37	0.743	0.660	0.810	0.737	0.865	0.809
	I11	5.40	5.32	0.736	0.663	0.818	0.735
	I12	5.33	5.29	0.753	0.652	0.802	0.745

Table 3. Descriptive statistics, Skewness and Kurtosis for the confirmatory sample.

	Mean	Std. deviation	Skewness	Kurtosis
I1	2.84	0.78	−0.14	−0.54
I2	2.82	0.87	−0.28	−0.64
I3	2.81	0.85	−0.15	−0.77
I4	2.77	0.94	−0.20	−0.94
I5	2.71	0.95	−0.17	−0.91
I6	2.76	0.92	−0.18	−0.88
I7	2.68	0.92	−0.10	−0.87
I8	2.75	0.93	−0.14	−0.93
I9	2.74	0.88	−0.20	−0.69
I10	2.62	0.91	0.02	−0.86
I11	2.67	0.85	−0.03	−0.68
I12	2.70	0.89	−0.07	−0.82

Figure 2. Confirmatory factor analysis of the Arabic CAMS-R.

Figure 3. Receiver-operating characteristics (ROC) curve for the Arabic CAMS-R total scores separating between high and low GPA.

Table 4. Discriminant validity of the Arabic CAMS-R.

	Attention	Focus	Awareness	Acceptance
1. Attention	0.75	–	–	–
2. Focus	0.376**	0.78	–	–
3. Awareness	0.351**	0.420**	0.79	–
4. Acceptance	0.425**	0.339**	0.450**	0.77

**The square root of AVE lower than the correlation coefficients. 

Table 5. Correlation matrix of the Arabic CAMS-R scores with Grit and GPA.

	Attention	Focus	Awareness	Acceptance	Mindfulness	Grit
Attention	1
Focus	0.376**	1
Awareness	0.351**	0.420**	1
Acceptance	0.425**	0.339**	0.450**	1
Mindfulness	0.712**	0.733**	0.755**	0.748**	1
Grit	0.337**	0.321**	0.307**	0.379**	0.454**	1
GPA	0.293**	0.278**	0.305**	0.255**	0.370**	0.211**