Abstract
This study aimed to determine the psychometric properties of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire(FFMQ) in university students from the city of Temuco, Chile (n = 399). The FFMQ is a self-report testconsisting of 39 items, which measures the general tendency to proceed with Mindfulness by using five skills:Observation, Description, Acting with Awareness, Non-judging of inner experience and Non-reactivity to innerexperience. The design is descriptive correlational of unique group. The results show adequate reliabilityand Mindfulness association with personality dimensions of the Five Factor Model of Costa and McCrae,with the Self-Actualization of humanistic theories and an inverse relation to negative emotional states ofdepression, anxiety and stress. Analyzes show that the Chilean version of FFMQ has adequate psychometricproperties for use in Chilean university students and discriminates between meditators and non-meditators.
