Mindful Attention Awareness Scale
Instructions:
The following is a collection of statements about your everyday experience. Using the scale from 1 (almost
always) to 6 (almost never), indicate how frequently or infrequently you currently have each experience.
Answer according to what really reflects your experience rather than what you think your experience should be.
Please treat each item separately from every other item.
1 = Almost always | 2 = Very frequently | 3 = Somewhat frequently |
4 = Somewhat infrequently | 5 = Very infrequently | 6 = Almost never
1. I could be experiencing some emotion and not be conscious of it until some time later.
2. I break or spill things because of carelessness, not paying attention, or thinking of something else.
3. I find it difficult to stay focused on what’s happening in the present.
4. I tend to walk quickly to get where I’m going without paying attention to what I experience along
the way.
5. I tend not to notice feelings of physical tension or discomfort until they really grab my attention.
6. I forget a person’s name almost as soon as I’ve been told it for the first time.
7. It seems I am “running on automatic,” without much awareness of what I’m doing.
8. I rush through activities without being really attentive to them
9. I get so focused on the goal I want to achieve that I lose touch with what I’m doing right now to get
there.
10. I do jobs or tasks automatically, without being aware of what I’m doing.
11. I find myself listening to someone with one ear, doing something else at the same time.
12. I drive places on “automatic pilot” and then wonder why I went there.
13. I find myself preoccupied with the future or the past.
14. I find myself doing things without paying attention.
15. I snack without being aware that I’m eating.
Your total score:
Source: Brown, K. W., & Ryan, R. M. (2003). The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-
being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(4), 822–848.
Average:
Scoring:
Add up your scores and divide by 15 to create an average for the 15 statements. The lower the average, the higher your trait
level of mindfulness. Scores range from 1 to 6. The typical average score is approximately 3.86.
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- TotalScore: 0
- Average: 0
