About this assessment

Mindfulness is not a mood or a personality trait you either have or lack — it is a measurable quality of attention: how often you are actually in the room where your life is happening, and whether you can meet what shows up without flinching into judgment or sliding into autopilot. This 32-item instrument is inspired by the dispositional mindfulness literature and measures four facets of everyday awareness. Present-moment attention asks whether your mind is where your body is. Non-judgment asks whether you can watch a thought or feeling without instantly grading it as wrong. Awareness of inner and outer experience asks whether the early, quiet signals — a tightening jaw, a shift in someone's voice, the edge in your own mood — register before they become problems. Freedom from autopilot asks whether routine quietly drives while you ride along. It does not measure how much you meditate; it measures how you move through ordinary, unguarded days. The items are deliberately specific and a little uncomfortable, because vague self-flattery tells you nothing. Answer for how you actually are, not how you'd like to sound. This is an original PsychIQ scale inspired by the dispositional-mindfulness literature; it is not the Brown & Ryan Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS).

Your result breaks down across 4 measured dimensions