สติและแบบประเมินสติ

บทคัดย่อ

Objective  To review mindfulness and the mindfulness assessment scales according to Kabat-Zinn’ s concept.

Materials and methods Documentary reviewed by using  2 words i.e. sati and mindfulness as key words to search via  Google search engine from December 2013 – April 2014.

Results  There were 24 articles retrieved. According to Kabat-Zinn, mindfulness composed 2 domains i.e., 7 items of cognitive domain and 5 items of affective domian which magnified by Shaprio and Swartz. Bishoped et al described an operation definition composed 2 factors that is, awareness and acceptance which 7 assessment scales’ developers used to generate the items. There were eight assessment scales based on self report containing 1-5 domains and were vary between 10–39 items. The differences in culture and concept of mindfulness practice impact the application of these assessment scales in Thailand.

Conclusion Mindfulness and the assessment scales according to Kabat-Zinn had both positive and limited issues in Thailand.