Measure Of Cognitive Fusion Research Articles

Assessing psychological inflexibility in text: An examination of the inflexitext program

We generate a large amount of text through interactions with technology. Identifying digital markers of psychological constructs in this data may provide novel opportunities for research, assessment, and intervention. Psychological inflexibility has been broadly related to distress and poorer well-being and represents a promising target for such efforts. The present study examined the performance of Inflexitext, a program scoring psychological inflexibility in text, within essays about an important emotional issue by 630 undergraduates. Relationships between Inflexitext and self-report measures of psychological inflexibility processes, self-compassion, distress, and state positive and negative affect, use of words from positive and negative emotion categories, and human coder ratings were examined. Inflexitext scores demonstrated small theoretically consistent relationships with measures of cognitive fusion, challenges in pursuing values, self-compassion, distress, state positive and negative affect, and use of positive and negative emotion terms. Inflexitext also evidenced a moderate relationship with human coder ratings of inflexibility and was moderately predictive of coder classification of essays as containing any inflexibility in a Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis. However, a comparison of areas under the curve (AUCs) associated with Inflexitext and use of negative emotion terms did not demonstrate a statistically significant difference in ability to classify essays as containing inflexibility. Inflexitext scores also did not evidence expected associations with self-reported progress towards values, experiential avoidance, and state experiential avoidance while writing the essay. Limitations of current findings and implications for future research are discussed.

Southampton Mindfulness Questionnaire: Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Psychometric Properties Across Portuguese Clinical and Non-clinical Samples

Southampton Mindfulness Questionnaire (SMQ) is one of the available instruments to assess mindfulness and has been described as particularly suited for clinical populations. The original study of the SMQ conceptualized it as having four facets, but yielded a single factor structure. The aim of this study was to confirm the SMQ factor structure and examine its psychometric properties in clinical and non-clinical Portuguese samples. The community sample comprised 243 participants, ranging from 18 to 77 years. Additionally, to assess sensitivity, two distinct samples were used: individuals with meditation experience (n = 30) and a clinical sample (43 individuals with psychosis). Factor structure, reliability, validity, and sensitivity analyses were performed. Confirmatory factor analyses of the SMQ seem to support one overarching mindfulness construct containing four facets, revealing an acceptable fit through a parceling method. Significant correlations were obtained between SMQ and another mindfulness measure, and also with measures of cognitive fusion, and positive and negative affect. Results also indicated significant differences in SMQ non-judging facet between meditators and non-meditators and clinical samples. The results indicate that although the SMQ has shown adequate reliability and validity, some limitations to the measure have been found. Further studies are needed, particularly with clinical samples, to determine how the current SMQ version could be improved and whether it should be revised.

Does Cognitive Fusion show up similarly across two behavioral health samples? Psychometric properties and invariance of the Greek–Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (G-CFQ)

The Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (CFQ) is a measure of cognitive fusion, a fundamental component of the psychological flexibility model, underlying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Numerous studies present cognitive fusion as a core pathological process contributing to psychological suffering, but none to date have examined phenomenological differences of this construct or assessed the CFQs' measuring performance across a clinical chronic pain sample vs. a sample of daily smoker university students. The purpose of this study was to examine the CFQ's psychometric properties in two Greek-speaking behavioral health samples (Sample 1: university student daily smokers, Sample 2: chronic pain patients) and assess its measurement model. Consistent with previous studies and the original English version, Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis, conducted separately per group, showed a unitary-factor solution for the Greek CFQ (G-CFQ). G-CFQ exhibited high internal reliability (Sample 1: Cronbach's α = 0.96, Sample 2: Cronbach's α = 0.95), good convergent validity with a theoretically related construct (Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure), good concurrent validity with the depression subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Smoking Self-Efficacy Questionnaire and good discriminant validity with the Fagerström Test of Nicotine Dependence. Overall, the construct of cognitive fusion consists of items which are interpreted similarly across young adult smokers and chronic pain patients. The two groups differed in terms of the loadings on item 1, suggesting that they seem to understand this item differently. Also, these two populations were not significantly different in terms of their levels of cognitive fusion. Practical usability of the CFQ and future directions are discussed.