title: [Interpersonal attention management inventory: a new instrument to capture different self- and external perception skills].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Interpersonal Attention Management Inventory (IAMI) represents a new instrument to capture self- and external perception skills. The underlying theoretical model assumes 3 mental locations of attention (the intrapersonal space, the extrapersonal space, and the external intrapersonal space) of the other.
  
  
  METHODS
  The IAMI was studied regarding its factor structure; it was shortened and statistical values as well as first reference values were calculated based on a larger sample (n = 1089).
  
  
  RESULTS
  By factor analysis, the superordinate scales could be widely validated. The shortened version with 31 items and 3 superordinate scales shows a high reliability of the global value (Cronbach's α = 0.81) and, regarding the convergent validity, a modest correlation (r = 0.41) of the global value and mindfulness, measured with the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (FMI).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Further validation studies are invited so that the IAMI can be used as an instrument for (course) diagnosis in the therapy of psychiatric disorders as well as for research in social neuroscience, e.g., in investigations on mindfulness, compassion, empathy, theory of mind, and self-boundaries.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Applied Boundary Studies, Basel, Schweiz.
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Blaser
authors.forename: Milena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zlabinger
authors.forename: Thilo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hinterberger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010465:Perception; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D055815:Young Adult