Mindful Attention Awareness Scale

Mindful Attention Awareness Scale is an open-source application for Android. It provides a structured assessment for people who want to examine mindful attention and awareness. The assessment focuses on attention to present experience rather than on meditation instruction.

The scale can be completed in 10 minutes or less, making it suitable for a brief, focused session. Its subject is a quality of consciousness associated with how consistently attention is directed toward what is happening in the present. It is not presented as a general collection of meditation exercises.

Research has reported strong psychometric properties for the MAAS in college, community, and cancer patient samples. Correlational, quasi-experimental, and laboratory studies have examined its relationship with self-regulation and well-being constructs. The measure is described in the 2003 article by Brown and Ryan, The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being.

On MirrorNest, the application belongs to the Health & Fitness category and fits the site’s Android mobile meditation collection. MirrorNest mirrors the official build directly onto its own storage rather than presenting a separately described version. The mirrored build is scanned for malware before publishing, providing a defined safety step in the catalog’s distribution process.