Attention: exploring its science

I have been fascinated as I have prepared this blog to discover a number of scientific studies on 2,500 year old faith practices.
So, I invite you to take the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale and see what results you come up with. Honest self-appraisal is the goal here.

If you are fascinated by psychological research and statistics, you can compare your scores to the scale's average:
"A t test of the difference between MAAS scale scores of the Zen practitioner group (M 4.29, SD 0.66) and the comparison group (M 3.97, SD 0.64) was significant... These results indicate that the MAAS is sensitive to individual differences in mindfulness and suggest that the higher scores among those consciously practicing this skill are due to such training."
"Mindfulness captures a quality of consciousness that is characterized by clarity and vividness of current experience and functioning and thus stands in contrast to the mindless, less “awake” states of habitual or automatic functioning that may be chronic for many individuals."
After using a series of mind-body relaxation exercises with cancer patients: "The results of this clinical intervention study showed that higher levels of mindfulness were related to lower levels of both mood disturbance and stress before and after the MBSR [mindfulness-based stress reduction] intervention. Increases in mindfulness over the course of the intervention predicted decreases in these two indicators of psychological disturbance. These relations between the MAAS and the outcomes were found after controlling for the influences of fatigue and pain. Such results suggest that the scale can be applied to the study of well-being issues in cancer populations."
Brown, K.W. and Ryan, R.M. (2003). The benefits of being present: The role of mindfulness in psychological well-being.