Miscellaneous Measures

Miscellaneous Measures Community June 10, 2021 - 3:47pm

RFT Measures

RFT Measures of Acceptance and Experiential Avoidance

Levin, M.E., Haeger, J. & Smith, G.S. Examining the Role of Implicit Emotional Judgments in Social Anxiety and Experiential Avoidance. J Psychopathol Behav Assess 39, 264–278 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-016-9583-5
Drake, C.E., Timko, C.A. & Luoma, J.B. Exploring an Implicit Measure of Acceptance and Experiential Avoidance of Anxiety. Psychol Rec 66, 463–475 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-016-0186-z

RFT Measures of Clinical Issues

Chan, G., Dermot Barnes-Holmes, D., Barnes-Holmes, Y. Stewart, I. (2009) Implicit Attitudes to Work and Leisure Among North American and Irish Individuals: A Preliminary Study. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 9(3), 317-334.
Cullen, C., Barnes-Holmes, D., Barnes-Holmes, Y. et al. The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP ) and the Malleability of Ageist Attitudes. Psychol Rec 59, 591–620 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03395683
Power, P., Barnes-Holmes, D., Barnes-Holmes, Y. et al. The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a Measure of Implicit Relative Preferences: A First Study. Psychol Rec 59, 621–640 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03395684
Vahey, N.A., Barnes-Holmes, D., Barnes-Holmes, Y. et al. A First Test of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure as a Measure of Self-Esteem: Irish Prisoner Groups and University Students. Psychol Rec 59, 371–387 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03395670
Dawson, D. L., Barnes-Holmes, D., Gresswell, D. M., Hart, A. J. P., & Gore, N. J. (2009). Assessing the implicit beliefs of sexual offenders using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure: A First Study. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 21(1), 57-75.

Community June 16, 2021 - 12:06am

Shame Measures

Shame Measures Community June 17, 2021 - 12:32am

Chronic Illness-related Shame Scale (CISS)

Trindade, I. A., Ferreira, C., & Pinto-Gouveia, J. (2017). Chronic illness-related shame: Development of a new scale and novel approach for IBD patients’ depressive symptomatology. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 24(1), 255–263. doi: 10.1002/cpp.2035

(original version in Portuguese from Portugal)

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CISS - Portuguese

(original version in Portuguese from Portugal)

Community June 8, 2021 - 2:00pm

Internalized Shame Scale (ISS)

Internalized Shame Scale. Reference: Rosario, P.M. & White, R.M. (2006). The Internalized Shame Scale: Temporal stability, internal consistency, and principal components analysis. Personality and Individual Differences, 41, 95–103.

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ISS - Italian

INTERNALIZED SHAME SCALE (ISS)

Rosario, P.M. & White, R.M. (2006). The Internalized Shame Scale: Temporal stability, internal consistency, and principal components analysis. Personality and Individual Differences, 41, 95–103.

Traduzione Italiana (1.0) a cura di Lijoi, E., Cioci, M., Francesconi, C., Rossi, E., Melchiorri, E., Violini, P., Ristè, N. (2013) AISCC, Gruppo Ricerca ACT.

Traduzione Italiana (2.0) a cura di Violini, P., Lijoi, E., Ristè, N., Rossi, E., Melchiorri, E., (2014) AISCC, Gruppo Ricerca ACT.

Referenza bibliografica: Lijoi, E., Violini, P., Rossi, E., Melchiorri, E., Ristè, N., Panzera, A., (2014). Validity and reliability of an Italian version of the Internalized Shame Scale (ISS) for Youth. Poster presented at ACBS World Conference 12 Poster Session - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - June 17-22, 2014.

Per informazioni: segreteria@aiscc.it – www.aiscc.it

AISCC - ACT Re… November 20, 2015 - 6:24pm

ISS - Korean

Insuk Lee, Haerim Choi. (2005) Validation Study of the Internalized Shame Scale (ISS). Journal of the Korean Psychological Association: Counseling and Psychotherapy, 17.3, 651-670.

Community July 27, 2021 - 10:58pm

ISS - Norwegian

Arne Vikan, Anne Marit Hassel, Arild Rugset, Hedda Eline Johansen & Tomas Moen (2010) A test of shame in outpatients with emotional disorder. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 64(3), 196-202. DOI: 10.3109/08039480903398177

Community August 11, 2021 - 3:54pm

ISS - Portuguese

Matos, M., Pinto-Gouveia, J., & Duarte, C. (2012). When I don't Like Myself: Portuguese Version of the Internalized Shame Scale. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 15(3), 1411-1423. http://doi.org/10.5209/rev_SJOP.2012.v15.n3.39425

Community July 14, 2021 - 10:49am

Stigma Measures

Stigma Measures Community June 17, 2021 - 12:34am

Perceived Stigma of Substance Abuse Scale (PSAS)

Perceived Stigma of Substance Abuse Scale (PSAS) is attached. Login to your ACBS account to see the attachment.

Luoma, J. B., O'Hair, A. K., Kohlenberg, B. S., Hayes, S. C., Fletcher, L. (2010). The development and psychometric properties of a new measure of perceived stigma toward substance users. Substance Use and Misuse, 45, 47-57.

Community June 12, 2021 - 11:37pm

PSAS - Hindi

Mattoo, S.K. & Sarkar, S. (2012). Validation of Hindi version of perceived stigma of substance abuse scale. Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry, 28 (3-4), 117-120. The full text of the article can be found on researchgate.net.

Community July 20, 2021 - 8:22pm

PSAS - Vietnam

Stockton, M. A., Mughal, A. Y., Bui, Q., Greene, M. C., Pence, B. W., Go, V., & Gaynes, B. N. (2021). Psychometric performance of the perceived stigma of substance abuse scale (PSAS) among patients on methadone maintenance therapy in Vietnam. Drug and alcohol dependence, 226, 108831. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108831

Community July 20, 2021 - 8:18pm

Stigmatizing Attitudes–Believability (SAB)

Assesses believability of negative thoughts towards clients.

Reference: Hayes, S. C., Bissett, R., Roget, N., Padilla, M., Kohlenberg, B. S., Fisher, G., Masuda, A., Pistorello, J., Rye, A. K., Berry, K. & Niccolls, R. (2004). The impact of acceptance and commitment training and multicultural training on the stigmatizing attitudes and professional burnout of substance abuse counselors. Behavior Therapy, 35, 821-835.

Michael Levin February 14, 2008 - 12:40am

Substance Abuse Self-Stigma Scale (SASSS)

Substance Abuse Self-Stigma Scale (SASSS) is attached. Please login to your ACBS account to see the attachment.

Luoma, J.B.,Nobles, R. H., Drake, C., E., Hayes, S. C., O-Hair, A., Fletcher, L., & Kohlenberg, B. S. (2013). Self-Stigma in Substance Abuse: Development of a New Measure. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 34, 1-12.

Community June 12, 2021 - 11:42pm

Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire (WSSQ)

Lillis, J., Luoma, J.B., Levin, M.E., & Hayes, S.C. (2010). Measuring weight self-stigma: The Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire. Obesity, 18(5), 971-976.

The WSSQ is available at stevenchayes.com.

Community June 12, 2021 - 11:32pm

WSSQ - Arabic

BinDhim N.F., Althumiri N.A., Basyouni M.H., Sims O.T., Alhusseini N., & Alqahtani S.A. (2020) Arabic Translation of the Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire: Instrument Validation Study of Factor Structure and Reliability.
JMIR Formative Research, 4(11), e24169. doi: 10.2196/24169 Arabic Translation of the WSSQ is in the Multimedia Appendix 1.

Community July 20, 2021 - 8:27pm

WSSQ - Chinese

Lin, K. P., & Lee, M. L. (2017). Validating a Chinese version of the Weight Self-stigma Questionnaire for use with obese adults. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 23(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/ijn.12537

Community July 20, 2021 - 8:38pm

WSSQ - French

Maïano, C., Aimé, A., Lepage, G., ASPQ Team, & Morin, A. (2019). Psychometric properties of the Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire (WSSQ) among a sample of overweight/obese French-speaking adolescents. Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 24(3), 575–583. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-017-0382-0 The French translation of the WSSQ is in table 3.

Community July 20, 2021 - 8:34pm

WSSQ - German

Hain, B., Langer, L., Hünnemeyer, K. et al. (2015). Translation and Validation of the German Version of the Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire (WSSQ). Obesity Surgery. 25, 750–753. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-015-1598-6

Community July 20, 2021 - 8:32pm

WSSQ - Italian

Rossi, A.A., Manzoni, G.M., Pietrabissa, G. et al. (2022). Weight stigma in patients with overweight and obesity: validation of the Italian Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire (WSSQ). Eating and Weight Disorders, 27, 2459–2472. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-022-01385-8

Community March 15, 2023 - 12:40am

WSSQ - Persian

Lin, C.Y., Imani, V., Cheung, P. et al. (2020) Psychometric testing on two weight stigma instruments in Iran: Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire and Weight Bias Internalized Scale. Eat Weight Disord, 25, 889–901. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-019-00699-4

Community August 1, 2021 - 11:31pm

WSSQ - Turkish

Sevincer, G.M., Kaya, A., Bozkurt, S., Akin, E., & Kose, S. (2017). Reliability, validity, and factorial structure of the Turkish version of the Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire (Turkish WSSQ). Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 27, 386-392. http://doi.org/10.1080/24750573.2017.1379717

Community July 24, 2021 - 12:34am

Other Measures

Other Measures Community June 17, 2021 - 12:44am

ACT ADVISOR Measure

ACT ADVISOR

ACT ADVISOR is a hexaflex-based self-report measure of psychological flexibility, its name being an acronym for the hexaflex processes (Acceptance; Commitment & Taking action; Attention to present; Defusion; Values Identification; Self as Observer; and Resulting psychological flexibility). It may be used both in case formulation and in tracking progress during therapy.

On being presented with this “double hexaflex” diagram, users are asked to choose where they would place themselves on the six different scales representing these core ACT processes, each with “opposite” statements at either end. Scoring is simply a matter of recording the user’s numerical responses and totalling them to give their Resulting psychological flexibility score. If ACT ADVISOR is administered repeatedly, scores can be tracked using the charts provided.

The idea for using the hexaflex as a diagnostic/ case formulation tool was, I believe, originally Kelly Wilson's and his materials (see The Hexaflex Dimensional Approach to Diagnostics) influenced the development of this instrument. Steve Hayes made helpful suggestions about the anchor statements for each process in earlier drafts, and I am also grateful for the ACT listserv community’s interest and input.

ACT ADVISOR statement rating form offers an alternative format. In this version users are asked to rate 12 statements independently of each other and without the possible steer of the double hexaflex diagram. Instructions for scoring this version are provided separately, with the Resulting psychological flexibility score here being converted to a percentage.

ACBS members login their account to see attachments.

Submitted by David Chantry

David Chantry June 1, 2008 - 10:21am

ACT Advisor - Swedish

ACT Advisor Svenska: https://contextualscience.org/files/ACT.Case_.Concepualisation.svens%20ka.Livheim.%C3%B6vers.2016.04.20.pdf

Community January 31, 2022 - 12:40pm

Adult OCD Impact Scale (AOIS)

Wetterneck, C. et al. (2020) Development and validation of the Adult OCD Impact Scale (AOIS): A measure of psychosocial functioning for adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 18, 287-293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2020.10.005 The AOIS is in the Appendix.

Community June 17, 2021 - 11:27am

Brief COPE

Carver, C.S. (1997) You want to measure coping but your protocol’ too long: Consider the brief cope. Int. J. Behav. Med., 4, 92. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327558ijbm0401_6

The Brief COPE is available at miami.edu.

Community July 21, 2021 - 10:47pm

Brief COPE - Arabic

Alghamdi, M. (2020) Cross-cultural validation and psychometric properties of the Arabic Brief COPE in Saudi population. Medical Journal of Malaysia, 75, 5, 502-509. Full text available on journal website.

Community July 15, 2021 - 11:46pm

Brief COPE - Chinese

Shao Di, Gao Qingling, Guo Wei (2015). Analysis of reliability and validity of Brief COPE in adolescents experienced explosion events. Journal: Chinese Nursing Research, 34, 4249-4253.

YU Pengpeng, YUAN Lu, WANG Dongfang, Bob Lew, PING Fan, JIA Cunxian (2019) Reliability and validity of Brief COPE Scale in medical college students. Journal of Shandong University(Health Sciences), 2019(01), 101-106

Community July 29, 2021 - 10:21pm

Brief COPE - Dutch

Marije Dollen, Gert-Jan Pepping, Bob Grove (2015) A comparison of coping-styles of individual and team athletes of Australia and the Netherlands. International Sports Studies.

Community August 11, 2021 - 4:10pm

Brief COPE - French

Baumstarck, K., Alessandrini, M., Hamidou, Z. et al. (2017). Assessment of coping: a new french four-factor structure of the brief COPE inventory. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 15, 8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-016-0581-9

Muller, L., Spitz, E. (2003). Multidimensional assessment of coping: Validation of the Brief COPE among French population. Encephale, 29(6), 507-518.

Community July 16, 2021 - 8:10pm

Brief COPE - German

Knoll, N., Rieckmann, N., & Schwarzer, R. (2005). Coping as a mediator between personality and stress outcomes: A longitudinal study with cataract surgery patients. European Journal of Personality, 19, 229-247.

The Brief COPE in German is available on miami.edu

Community July 21, 2021 - 11:04pm

Brief COPE - Greek

Kapsou, M., Panayiotou, G., Kokkinos, C. M., & Demetriou, A. G. (2010). Dimensionality of coping: an empirical contribution to the construct validation of the brief-COPE with a Greek-speaking sample. Journal of health psychology, 15(2), 215–229. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105309346516

The Brief COPE - Greek is available on miami.edu

Community July 21, 2021 - 10:44pm

Brief COPE - Italian

Monzani, D., Steca, P., Greco, A., D'Addario, M., Cappelletti, E., & Pancani, L. (2015). The Situational Version of the Brief COPE: Dimensionality and Relationships With Goal-Related Variables. Europe's journal of psychology, 11(2), 295–310. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v11i2.935

Community July 21, 2021 - 10:22pm

Brief COPE - Japanese

Yasumasa Otsuka (2008). 理論的作成方法によるコーピング尺度--COPE [The COPE inventory: a theoretically based coping questionnaire]. Hiroshima psychological research (8), 121-128. http://doi.org/10.15027/26794

Community July 30, 2021 - 9:33pm

Brief COPE - Korean

Kim, Y., & Seidlitz, L. (2002). Spirituality moderates the effect of stress. Personality and Individual Differences, 32(8), 1377-1390. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(01)00128-3

The Brief COPE - Korean is available on miami.edu

Community July 21, 2021 - 11:07pm

Brief COPE - Malay

Yusoff, N., Low, W.Y. & Yip, C.H. (2009) RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF THE MALAY VERSION OF BRIEF COPE SCALE: A STUDY ON MALAYSIAN WOMEN TREATED WITH ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY FOR BREAST CANCER. Malaysian Journal of Psychiatry, 18 (1), 1-9.

Muhamad Saiful Bahri Yusoff (2011) The Validity of the Malay Brief COPE in Identifying Coping Strategies among Adolescents in Secondary School. International Medical Journal, 18(1), 29 - 33. The Brief COPE items translation is in Table 1.

Community July 21, 2021 - 10:34pm

Brief COPE - Norwegian

Hoel, Geirdal AØ. Belastning, mestring og psykisk helse hos pårørende til mennesker med ruslidelse. Sykepleien Forskning. 2016 http://doi.org/10.4220/Sykepleienf.2016.59839

Kristiansen, E., Roberts, G. C., & Abrahamsen, F. E. (2008). Achievement involvement and stress coping in elite wrestling. Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports, 18(4), 526–538. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0838.2007.00646.x

Community August 11, 2021 - 4:05pm

Brief COPE - Persian

Ashktorab, T., Baghcheghi, N., Seyedfatemi, N., & Baghestani, A. (2017). Psychometric parameters of the Persian version of the BriefCOPE among wives of patients under hemodialysis. Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 31, 20. https://doi.org/10.18869/mjiri.31.20

Community July 21, 2021 - 10:41pm

Brief COPE - Portuguese

Brasileiro, S. V., Orsini, M. R., Cavalcante, J. A., Bartholomeu, D., Montiel, J. M., Costa, P. S., & Costa, L. R. (2016). Controversies Regarding the Psychometric Properties of the Brief COPE: The Case of the Brazilian-Portuguese Version "COPE Breve". PloS one, 11(3), e0152233. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152233

Dias, C., Cruz, J. F., & Fonseca, A. M. (2009). Anxiety and coping strategies in sport contexts: a look at the psychometric properties of Portuguese instruments for their assessment. The Spanish journal of psychology, 12(1), 338–348. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1138741600001736

Community July 21, 2021 - 10:26pm

Brief COPE - Sinhala

Weeratunga E, Senadheera C, Hettiarachchi M, Perera B. (2021). Validation of the Sinhalese Version of Brief COPE Scale for patients with cancer in Sri Lanka. BMC Psychology, 10, 157. DOI: 10.1186/s40359-022-00863-z

Community August 19, 2022 - 10:08am

Brief COPE - Spanish

García, F. E., Barraza-Peña, C. G., Wlodarczyk, A., Alvear-Carrasco, M., & Reyes-Reyes, A. (2018). Psychometric properties of the Brief-COPE for the evaluation of coping strategies in the Chilean population. Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS, 31(1), 22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41155-018-0102-3

Vargas-Manzanares, Sandra Paola; Herrera-Olaya, Gina Paola; Rodríguez-García, Laura; Sepúlveda Carrillo, Gloria Judith (2010) Confiabilidad del cuestionario Brief COPE Inventory en versión en español para evaluar estrategias de afrontamiento en pacientes con cáncer de seno [Reliability of the Questionnaire Brief COPE Inventory in Spanish Version for Assessing Coping Strategies in Patients with Breast Cancer]. Investigación en Enfermería: Imagen y Desarrollo, 12, 1, 7-24. https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/1452/145216903002.pdf

Perczek, R., Carver, C. S., Price, A. A., & Pozo-Kaderman, C. (2000). Coping, mood, and aspects of personality in Spanish translation and evidence of convergence with English versions. Journal of personality assessment, 74(1), 63–87. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327752JPA740105

The Brief COPE Spanish Translation is available at miami.edu.

Community July 16, 2021 - 8:15pm

Brief COPE - Urdu

Asma Nisa & Salma Siddiqui (2020) Urdu Translation and Adaptation of Brief COPE Scale. Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research, 35(1), 1-21. https://doi:org/10.33824/PJPR.2020.35.1.1 The Urdu Version of the Brief COPE can be found on psychologyroots.com

Community July 13, 2021 - 8:53pm

Brief COPE - Vietnamese

Shoko Matsumoto, et al. (2020). Validation of the Brief Coping Orientation to Problem Experienced (Brief COPE) inventory in people living with HIV/AIDS in Vietnam. Global Health & Medicine, 2(6), 374-383. https://doi.org/10.35772/ghm.2020.01064

Community July 13, 2021 - 8:59pm

COPE

Reference: Carver, C. S., Scheier, M. F., & Weintraub, J. K. (1989). Assessing coping strategies: A theoretically based approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56(2), 267-283.

Description from abstract of original paper:
"We developed a multidimensional coping inventory to assess the different ways in which people respond to stress. Five scales (of four items each) measure conceptually distinct aspects of problem-focused coping (active coping, planning, suppression of competing activities, restraint coping, seeking of instrumental social support); five scales measure aspects of what might be viewed as emotion-focused coping (seeking of emotional social support, positive reinterpretation, acceptance, denial, turning to religion); and three scales measure coping responses that arguably are less useful (focus on and venting of emotions, behavioral disengagement, mental disengagement). Study 1 reports the development of scale items. Study 2 reports correlations between the various coping scales and several theoretically relevant personality measures in an effort to provide preliminary information about the inventory's convergent and discriminant validity. Study 3 uses the inventory to assess coping responses among a group of undergraduates who were attempting to cope with a specific stressful episode. This study also allowed an initial examination of associations between dispositional and situational coping tendencies."

admin February 16, 2008 - 7:20pm

COPE - Arabic

Fahmi H. Fadhel (2015). Psychometric Properties of COPE Inventory in a Yemeni Sample. http://dx.doi.org/10.12785/JEPS/160119

Community July 16, 2021 - 7:58pm

COPE - Chinese

Zhang Weidong. (2001). STUDY ON THE DIMENSIONALITY OF THE COPING INVENTORY(COPE). Acta Psychologica Sinica, 33(01), 55-62. http://journal.psych.ac.cn/acps/EN/Y2001/V33/I01/55

Community July 16, 2021 - 8:23pm

COPE - Croatian

Hudek-Knežević, J., Kardum, I. and Vukmirović, Ž. (1999). The structure of coping styles: a comparative study of croatian sample. Eur. J. Pers., 13, 149-161. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0984(199903/04)13:2<149::AID-PER326>3.0.CO;2-Z

Community July 13, 2021 - 9:05pm

COPE - Dutch

Kleijn, W. C., van Heck, G. L., & van Waning, A. (2000). Ervaringen met een Nederlandse bewerking van de COPE copingvragenlijst. De COPE-Easy [Experiences with a Dutch adaptation of the COPE coping questionnaire: The COPE-Easy]. Gedrag & Gezondheid: Tijdschrift voor Psychologie en Gezondheid, 28(4), 213–226.

Community July 29, 2021 - 7:06pm

COPE - Estonian

Kallasmaa, T. & Pulver, A. (2000) The structure and properties of the Estonian COPE inventory. Personality and Individual Differences, 29(5), 881-894. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00240-8

Community July 16, 2021 - 8:38pm

COPE - Greek

Magda Dinou, Despina Moraitou, Georgia Papantoniou, Anastasia Kalogiannidou, Aphrodite Papantoniou (2013) Ψυχομετρικές ιδιότητες της ελληνικής εκδοχής του Ερωτηματολογίου Προσανατολισμών στην Αντιμετώπιση Προβλημάτων [Psychometric properties of the Greek version of the Coping Orientations to Problems Experienced - COPE Inventory]. Scientific Annals - School of Psychology AUTh, 10, 163-192. http://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/psyannals/article/view/4270

Community July 16, 2021 - 8:27pm

COPE - Italian

Claudio Sica, Caterina Novara, Stella Dorz, & Ezio Sanavio (1997) Coping strategies: Evidence for cross-cultural differences? A preliminary study with the Italian version of coping orientations to problems experienced (COPE). Personality and Individual Differences, 23(6), 1025-1029. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00112-8

Community July 16, 2021 - 7:50pm

COPE - Japanese

Community July 30, 2021 - 9:34pm

COPE - Latvian

Petrova, I. (2009) Paškategorizācijas, uztvertā stresa un stresa pārvarēšanas stratēģiju saistība ar bezdarbnieku priekšstatiem par izredzēm atgriezties darba tirgū. Thesis. http://dspace.lu.lv/dspace/handle/7/9975

Community July 26, 2021 - 10:07pm

COPE - Portuguese

Cabral, J., & Mena Matos, P. (2010). Cope-inventory: Teste da estrutura factorial com uma amostra de jovens adultos universitários. PSICOLOGIA, 24(1), 49–71. https://doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v24i1.296

Community July 16, 2021 - 8:20pm

COPE - Romanian

Craovan, D.I. & Sava, Florin. (2013). Translation, adaptation, and validation on romanian population of cope questionnaire for coping mechanisms analysis. Cognition, Brain, Behavior, 17, 61-76. The Romanian version of the COPE is in the appendix.

Community July 13, 2021 - 8:47pm

COPE - Russian

Rasskazova, E. I., Gordeeva, T. O., & Osin, E. N. (2013). Koping-strategii v strukture deyatel'nosti i samoregulyatsii: psikhometricheskie kharakteristiki i vozmozhnosti primeneniya metodiki COPE [Coping Strategies in the Structure of Activity and Self-Regulation: Psychometric Properties and Applications of the COPE Inventory]. Psychology. Journal of Higher School of Economics, 10(1), 82-118. (in Russian) https://psy-journal.hse.ru/ru/2013-10-1/78932127.html

Community July 16, 2021 - 8:07pm

COPE - Serbian

The COPE Serbian Transation and the Brief COPE Serbian Translation can be found on the Repository of psychological instruments in Serbian [Repozitorijum psiholoških instrumenata na srpskom jeziku] (REPOPSI). https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/5ZB8P

Community July 13, 2021 - 8:29pm

COPE - Slovak

Halamová, J., Kanovský, M., Krizova, K., et al. (2021). The Factor Structure and External Validity of the COPE 60 Inventory in Slovak Translation. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 800166. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.800166

Community August 19, 2022 - 10:25am

COPE - Spanish

The COPE in Spanish is available at https://local.psy.miami.edu/people/faculty/ccarver/availbale-self-report-instruments/cope/cope-in-spanish/

Community July 21, 2021 - 11:09pm

COPE - Turkish

Mehmet Yücel AĞARGÜN, Lütfullah BEŞİROĞLU, Ümit Kemal KIRAN, Ömer Akil ÖZER, Hayrettin KARA (2005) COPE (Başa Çıkma Tutumlarını Değerlendirme Ölçeği): Psikometrik özelliklere ilişkin bir ön çalışma [The psychometric properties of the COPE inventory in Turkish
sample: a preliminary research]. Anatolian Journal of Psychiatry, 6, 221-226. Full text of the article is on www.researchgate.net

Community July 16, 2021 - 8:19pm

COPE - Ukrainian

Kovalenko, Y.V. (2019). Adaptation and validation of the Ukrainian dispositional ‘cope’ questionnaire. Університет імені Альфреда Нобеля (Alfred Nobel University), Серія «Педагогіка і психологія». Педагогічні науки, 2 (18). http://doi.org/10.32342/2522-4115-2019-2-18-9

Community May 24, 2022 - 9:54pm

Emotion Efficacy Scale (EES2) - Revised

Overview

The Emotion Efficacy Scale (EES2) assesses the degree to which people can respond to a full range of emotions in a contextually-sensitive, values-consistent manner. The original version of the scale was first published in Emotion Efficacy Therapy (McKay & West, 2016). It has since been revised and validated in English, Farsi and Turkish. (See references below).

Professionals can use the scale in conjunction with administering the Emotion Efficacy Therapy protocol in a group or individual format, or as an adjunct to increasing emotional intelligence, psychological flexibility, and resilience in clinical or coaching work.

This scale has been validated for adults ages 18 and older.

Developer

Aprilia West, PsyD, MT, PCC

Scoring/ Interpretation

10 items total
Items 3-8 are reverse scored
Score can range from 10-50
Items are summed; a higher score indicates higher emotion efficacy

Percentile Rankings

Based on a validation study (n=24) with a clinical population:

Total score >19: 25th percentile
Total score >25: 50th percentile
Total score >31: 75th percentile
Total score >37: 90th percentile

Use of this scale

No permission is needed to use this scale for clinical purposes. If you are using this scale in conjunction with research, please notify aprilia@drapriliawest.com.

Download the EES2 below for the most recent version of the scale and for scoring instructions.

Learn More:
Bozkurt, F., Uzun, R. B., & West, A. (2024). Psychometric Properties of the Turkish Version of the Emotion Efficacy Scale– 2 in a Sample of Turkish Emerging Adults. Emerging Adulthood, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/21676968241247878.

Foroughi, A. A., Parvizifard, A., Sadeghi, K., & Moghadam, A. P. (2021). Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. Trends in psychiatry and psychotherapy, 43(2), 101–107. https://doi.org/10.47626/2237-6089-2018-0106.

Shannon, M. (2018). Measuring Emotion Regulation, Psychological Flexibility and Valued Living through the Emotion Efficacy Scale: A Validation Study. The Wright Institute, Berkeley California.

www.emotionefficacytherapy.com

Aprilia West June 28, 2019 - 7:29am

Forms of Responding to Self-Critical Thoughts Scale’ (FoReST)

White, R.G., Larkin, P., McCluskey, J., Lloyd, J., & McLeodd, H.J. (2020). The development of the ‘Forms of Responding to Self-Critical Thoughts Scale’ (FoReST). Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 15, 20-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2019.11.003

Community June 14, 2021 - 9:41am

FoReST - Turkish

Mehmet Emrah Karadere & Huseyin Sehid Burhan (2021) Turkish Version of the Forms of Responding to Self-Critical Thoughts Scale (FoReST): A Reliability and Validity Analysis over Non-Clinical Samples. Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 11(1):57-62. http://doi.org/10.5455/PBS.20210315025754

The Türkish version of the FoReST is on the ACBS Türkiye Chapter website

Community July 21, 2021 - 11:19pm

Generalized Pliance Questionnaire (GPQ)

Ruiz, F.J. et al (2019) Development and initial validation of the Generalized Pliance Questionnaire. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 12, 189-198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2018.03.003 English and Spanish translations of the GPQ are in the Supplementary material Appendix.

Community June 15, 2021 - 2:27pm

GPQ - Polish

Dudek, J., Cyniak-Cieciura, M. & Ostaszewski, P. (2023). The Polish adaptation of the measurements of rule-governed behaviors: Generalized Pliance Questionnaire, Generalized Tracking Questionnaire and Generalized Self-Pliance Questionnaire. PLOS ONE, 18(4), e0283795. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283795 The Polish versions of the GPQ, GTQ, and GSPQ are in Table 1.

Community May 2, 2023 - 10:17pm

GPQ - Spanish

Ruiz, F. J., Odriozola-González, P., & Suárez-Falcón, J. C. (2020 in press). Psychometric properties of the Generalized Pliance Questionnaire in Spain. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000614

Ruiz, F.J. et al (2019) Development and initial validation of the Generalized Pliance Questionnaire. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 12, 189-198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2018.03.003 The Spanish translation of the GPQ is in the Supplementary material Appendix.

Community June 14, 2021 - 6:04pm

MindFlex Assessment System

THE SERVICE

The MindFlex Assessment System is an online service designed for therapists using ACT [or Mindfulness-based] interventions. The MindFlex system:

provides standardized profiles showing how individual clients are functioning across 21 well-validated indices
provides a straightforward and easy method for therapists to track the process of change in therapy.

The MINDFLEX SYSTEM assesses:

7 dimensions of flexibility
7 additional dimensions of inflexibility
2 main dimensions of psychological distress (depressive & anxiety symptoms)
5 dimensions of well-being

HOW TO GET STARTED:

By enrolling yourself as a clinician in the project (2-5min survey) and then enrolling individual clients (3-5min survey), you can have clients complete a 15-20min survey assessing all of these scales.

THERAPIST ENROLLMENT LINK

WEBSITE DETAILING THE SERVICE

Each time a client completes a MindFlex assessment, we will then score the responses, and integrate that information into a standardized profile to show you how that client is doing compared to thousands of others. If that client has completed a previous MindFlex assessment, then the profile generated will help you track statistically significant change.

COST FOR THE SERVICE:

The MindFlex service is entirely free of charge. In fact, roughly the first 100 therapists to help us pilot this service can receive up to $100 in compensation and their clients can receive up to $80 for participating in the MindFlex Assessment Project, conducted by Dr. Ron Rogge.

rogge February 26, 2019 - 12:24pm

Mindful Eating Questionnaire (MEQ)

Framson, C., Kristal, A. R., Schenk, J. M., Littman, A. J., Zeliadt, S., & Benitez, D. (2009). Development and validation of the mindful eating questionnaire. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 109(8), 1439–1444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jada.2009.05.006

Paola Lucena-Santos December 12, 2016 - 6:16am

MEQ - Brazilian Portuguese

Mindful Eating Questionnaire (MEQ) Brazilian Portuguese version

Corresponding author: Paola Lucena-Santos, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.

E-mail: paolabc2.lucena@gmail.com

WhatsApp: +55 (51) 998055874

Affiliation: CINEICC - Cognitive Behavioral Research Center (Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Coimbra)

Community June 8, 2021 - 2:03pm

MEQ - Chinese

Zhang, Q., Hugh-Jones, S. & O'Connor,D.B. (2022). Investigation of psychometric properties of the Mindful Eating Questionnaire in Chinese adolescents and young adults using mixed methods. Appetite, 176, 106097. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2022.106097

Community October 11, 2023 - 4:18pm

MEQ - Greek

Koptsi, I., Tsapekos, D. & Goulis, D. (2022). ADAPTATION OF THE MINDFUL EATING QUESTIONNAIRE IN GREEK. Hellenic Journal of Psychology, 19(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.26262/hjp.v19i1.7884

Community October 11, 2023 - 4:14pm

MEQ - Italian

Clementi, C., Casu, G., & Gremigni, P. (2017). An Abbreviated Version of the Mindful Eating Questionnaire. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 49(4), 352–356.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2017.01.016

Community July 22, 2021 - 10:55am

MEQ - Korean

Seung-Hye Choi, Eun-Mi Lee, Hae-Young Lee. (2018). Psychometric Evaluation of Korean Version of Mindful Eating Questionnaire. Journal of the Korean Wellness Society, 13.1, 63-72.

Community July 27, 2021 - 11:02pm

MEQ - Malay

Abdul Basir, S.M., Abdul Manaf, Z., Ahmad, M., Abdul Kadir, N.B., Ismail, W.N.K., Mat Ludin, A.F., & Shahar, S. (2021) Reliability and Validity of the Malay Mindful Eating Questionnaire (MEQ-M) among Overweight and Obese Adults. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 18, 1021. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18031021 Translation is in Appendix A.

Community June 17, 2021 - 1:18am

MEQ - Persian

References:

Abbaspoor, Z., Javadifar, N., Miryan, M. et al. (2018) Psychometric properties of the Iranian version of mindful eating questionnaire in women who seeking weight reduction. J Eat Disord 6, 33. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-018-0220-4

Rezaei, S. & Jahanbin, E. (2022). Translation and Validation of the Persian Version of Mindful Eating Questionnaire. Caspian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 8(2), 76-89. http://dx.doi.org/10.32598/CJNS.8.29.2

Community June 17, 2021 - 1:16am

MEQ - Romanian

Serban, D. M., Serban, C. L., Ursoniu, S., Putnoky, S., Moleriu, R. D., & Putnoky, S. (2022). Mindful Eating Questionnaire: Validation and Reliability in Romanian Adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(17), 10517. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710517

Community October 11, 2023 - 4:11pm

MEQ - Turkish

References:

Gizem KÖSE, Muhittin TAYFUR, İnci BİRİNCİOĞLU, Aslıhan DÖNMEZ (2016) Yeme Farkındalığı Ölçeği’ni Türkçeye Uyarlama Çalışması [Adaptation Study of the Mindful Eating Questiıonnare (MEQ) into Turkish.] Journal of Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy and Research, 5(3), 125-134. DOI: 10.5455/JCBPR.250644

Kömürcü Akik, B., & Yiğit, İ. (2023). Evaluating the psychometric properties of the mindful eating questionnaire: Turkish validity and reliability study. Curr Psychol, 42, 12661–12670. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02502-z

Community July 30, 2021 - 11:39pm

Mindful Eating Questionnaire for Children (MEQ-C)

Kocaadam-Bozkurt, B., Köksal, E. & Özalp Ateş, F.S. (2022). Mindful Eating Questionnaire for Children: Validation and Reliability in Turkish Children. Mindfulness, 13, 1469–1478. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-01889-5

Community October 11, 2023 - 4:06pm

MEQ-C (Chinese)

Wang, D., Hu, Y., Zhou, H., Ye, Z., & Fu, J. (2022). Translation and Modification of a Mindful Eating Questionnaire for Children Assisted by Item Response Theory in Chinese Children and Adolescents. Nutrients, 14(14), 2854. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14142854

Community October 11, 2023 - 4:07pm

MEQ-C (Turkish)

Kocaadam-Bozkurt, B., Köksal, E. & Özalp Ateş, F.S. (2022). Mindful Eating Questionnaire for Children: Validation and Reliability in Turkish Children. Mindfulness, 13, 1469–1478. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-01889-5

Community October 11, 2023 - 4:07pm

New SVS version

We've also similarly updated the SVS. Please use this version rather than the previously posted one.

social values survey

SVS validation slides

JT Blackledge November 16, 2005 - 11:27pm

Parental Psychological Flexibility Questionnaire (PPF)

Burke, K., Moore, S. (2015). Development of the Parental Psychological Flexibility Questionnaire. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 46, 548–557. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-014-0495-x

Community June 15, 2021 - 12:08pm

Personal Values Questionnaire II (PVQII)

We were a bit reluctant to do this as it basically invalidates what little prior data there is for the Personal Values Questionnaire, but it made sense to us under the circumstances.

We’ve gone through two sets of reformatting and rewording the instrument. The first ‘re-draft’ was spurred by Ann Bailey, who rightfully noted that the wording of some of the Likert items was a bit complicated for those with a sub-college writing level and that the ordering of the Likert questions did not flow very well. This re-draft has been up on the ACBS site for a couple of years now.

The most recent changes occurred late last year. In the process of translating the instrument into German, Andrew Gloster and two of his doctoral students at Dresden Technical University noted that the prompts provided for the domain-specific values narratives differed across domains.

I had initially done this to provide a variety of ways of talking about values in the hope that subjects who had not been through ACT therapy might still ‘get’ what a value is. Andrew, I think rightfully, questioned this strategy as the different prompts might differentially cue different qualities of responses across domains, resulting in narratives (and subsequently, Likert ratings on those narratives) that might be functionally different.

So, in advance of that translation, we decided on a uniform values narrative prompt to be used across all domains. That served as the basis for the German translation, which I’ve also attached. I’m posting both of these on the ACBS site, but wanted to send them here as well as I know some others have used or plan to use the PVQ for research, etc (Martin Cernval from Uppsala University will be beginning a Swedish translation soon, for example).

I thought about further modifying the instrument (e.g., I really like Kelly Wilson’s addition of Parenting and Aesthetics values domains to the VLQ), but the instrument is beastly enough already. Functionally, it’s still the same instrument—except, hopefully, the aspects of the original instrument that functioned to confuse some subjects and potentially yield differentially ‘ACT-consistent’ (for lack of a better phrase) across domains have been eliminated!

JT Blackledge January 13, 2010 - 11:17am

PVQ II - German

PVQ II - German Community July 25, 2021 - 10:40pm

PVQ II - Japanese

Personal Values Questionnaire II (PVQ II) is a scale that measures the value of "value", which is the core process of ACT, and the behavior along with the value in each area of life. PVQⅡ has an 8-item 3-factor structure.

Rimi Doi, Kengo Yokomitsu, Yuji Sakano (2014). Verification of the internal consistency and validity of Personal Values Questionnaire II. Behavior Therapy Research, 40 (1), 45-55.

The PVQ II Japanese version is on the ACBS Japan Chapter website.

Community July 22, 2021 - 11:04pm

PVQ-II - Spanish

En adjunto está la traducción y adaptación al español del PVQ-II (que está en esta página). La traducción fue realizada por Solange Estévez y Dalila Acuña, del equipo de diseminación de Grupo ACT Argentina (https://grupoact.com.ar/el-cuestionario-de-valores-personales-ii/)

Tiene algunas adaptaciones menores de formato respecto al original en inglés (como separar las puntuaciones de las descripciones en las escalas Likert), y está en castellano neutro.

Fabian Maero August 28, 2020 - 10:04am

Personal Values Questionnaire (PVQ)

This is a new approach developed by J. T. Blacklege and Joe Ciarocchi at the University of Wollongong.

In an August 2005 email J. T. said this:

Joseph Ciarrochi & I (with invaluable suggestions from Steve) have just finished designing two new ACT values questionnaires that borrow elements from Sheldon's Personal Striving assessment form (Joseph discovered Kennon Sheldon's work a while back and it pointed us in a direction we felt might enhance ACT values assessment). One is a full-length form called the Personal Values Questionnaire (which measures all 9 ACT values domains); the second is called the Social Values Survey (which measures only social, family, and couples relationships) that we tailored for a brief intervention with young adolescents.

There is currently no psychometric data for either (they are changed enough that Sheldon's Personal Striving data is largely irrelevant), though we will be validating the SVS on a sample of 8th graders in a few weeks, and validating the PVQ on a university student sample early next year. Please feel more than free to validate these questionnaires on any samply you see fit (just let us know--we'd love to see the data). The format of the questionnaire is close enough to Sheldon's for us to expect the measures to have similarly reasonable psychometric properties, but, of course, who knows until we see data.

We had two primary purposes in mind while we were designing these instruments. First, we wanted to describe each values domain in a way likely to influence subjects to write relatively ACT-consistent values--even if these subjects had not been exposed to ACT therapy. As we all know, ACT talks about values in a different way than the term is usually used--and it's thus hard to expect someone not familiar with ACT to state a value in an ACT-consistent way without interacting with a therapist. We wanted to make it clear to subjects that by value, we are referring to unilateral actions that are likely to lead to increased vitality, meaning, purpose--not static end states that appear implicitly out of one's control. In other words, to avoid getting responses like "I value close friendships", we included prompts like, "What kinds of friendships would you most like to build? If you were able to be the best friend possible, how would you behave toward your friends? For example, you might value building friendships that are supportive, considerate, caring, accepting, loyal, or honest—but choose for yourself which qualities you would most like to bring to your friendships.

Some subtle changes from wording used on previous versions of values questionnaires, but we felt the 'build' theme, along with examples, seemed to provide the kind of prompts that might be more helpful. Second, we wanted to include Likert-scale questions that assessed things like how much each stated value might be a function of things like pliance or experiential avoidance. Steve oriented us back toward RFT/rule governed behaviour terms that capture what we were trying to assess: as it stands now, question one under each values domain on the SVS and PVQ assesses pliance, question 2 assesses avoidant tracking, and questions 3 & 4 assess augmentals. There are also items that get at importance of each value, effectiveness in moving toward it, etc. As it stands (using Sheldon's scoring algorithms and common sense), subtracting the sum of items 1 & 2 from the sum of items 3 & 4 would yield a sort of 'value purity' score that tells us to what degree a subject/client values the stated value for the reasons we'd hope for from an ACT perspective (higher positive score = greater 'purity' of the value; negative score means the 'value' is actually a function of pliance and/or avoidance).

Steven Hayes August 30, 2005 - 11:14pm

Psychological Flexibility Questionnaire

Ben-Itzhak, S., Bluvstein, I., & Maor, M. (2014). The Psychological Flexibility Questionnaire (PFQ): Development, Reliability and Validity. WebmedCentral PSYCHOLOGY, 5(4), WMC004606. DOI: 10.9754/journal.wmc.2014.004606

Community March 15, 2023 - 12:58am

Questionnaire on Self-Transcendence

This scale, informed by ACT and other contextual cognitive behavioral therapies, measures three related factors:

1. Distancing from content of mental experience (informed by cognitive defusion)

2. Observing self - capacity to "notice the noticer" of experiences (informed by self-as-context)

3. Inter-transcendence - capacity to recognize transcendent connection between self and other beings (informed by aspects of self-as-context and RFT)

The scale is available for public use.

Please cite the scale as follows:

Fishbein, J. N., Baer, R. A., Correll, J., & Arch, J. J. (2020). The Questionnaire on Self-Transcendence (QUEST): A measure of trait self-transcendence informed by contextual cognitive behavioral therapies. Assessment, In press. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191120980061

joel.n.fishbei… April 21, 2021 - 1:29pm

Scale for Personality Rigidity

Scale for personality rigidity.

Reference: Rehfisch, J.M. (1958). A scale for personality rigidity. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 22, 11-15.

This scale has been found to relate to rule governed behavior in laboratory studies.

Wulfert, E., Greenway, D. E., Farkas, P., Hayes, S. C., & Dougher, M. J. (1994). Correlation between a personality test for rigidity and rule-governed insensitivity to operant contingencies. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 27, 659-671.

From abstract:

"Adults were selected on the basis of their scores on the Scale for Personality Rigidity (Rehfisch, 1958). Their scores served as a measure of hypothesized rule governance in the natural environment. Experiment 1 studied the effects of accurate versus minimal instructions and high versus low rigitidy on performance on a multiple differential-reinforcement-of-low-rate (DRL) 4-s fixed-ratio (FR) 18 schedule. When the schedule was switched to extinction, accurate instructions and high rigidity were associated with greater perseveration in the response pattern subjects developed during the reinforcement phase. In Experiment 2, the effects of rigidity and of accurate versus inaccurate instructions were studied. Initially, all subjects received accurate instructions about an FR schedule. The schedule was then switched to DRL, but only half of the subjects received instructions about the DRL contingency, and the other half received FR instructions as before. Accurate instructions minimized individual differences because both high and low scorers on the rigidity scale earned points in DRL. However, when inaccurate instructions were provided, all high-rigidity subjects follow them although they did not earn points on the schedule, whereas most low-rigidity subjects abandoned them and responded appropriately to DRL. The experiments demonstrate a correlation between performances observed in the human operant laboratory and a paper-and-pencil test of rigidity that purportedly reflects important response styles that differentiate individuals in the natural environment. Implications for applied research and intervention are discussed."

admin February 16, 2008 - 8:17pm

Tacting of Function Scale (TOF)

Pierce, B.G. & Levin, M.E. (2019). Preliminary validation and reliability assessment of a 10-item Tacting of Function Scale. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 12, 322-328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2019.01.002 The Tacting of Function Scale can be downloaded from the Utah State University ACT Research Group.

Community June 15, 2021 - 2:22pm

Teacher Psychological Flexibilty Scale (TPFS)

Teacher Psychological Flexibilty Scale was developed in Turkish.

Çelik Aslan, H. & Tuzgöl Dost, M. (2023). ÖĞRETMEN PSİKOLOJİK ESNEKLİK ÖLÇEĞİ’ NİN GELİŞTİRİLMESİ [DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEACHER PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY SCALE]. Elektronik Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 22(85), 86-102. DOI: 10.17755/esosder.1197849

Community March 16, 2023 - 1:58pm

Thought Control Questionnaire

The Thought Control Questionnaire assesses different methods used to control unwanted/aversive thoughts. The measure can be downloaded here.

Reference: Wells, A., & Davies, M. I. (1994). The thought control questionnaire: A measure of individual differences in the control of unwanted thoughts. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 32, 871–878.

admin October 21, 2008 - 11:48am

Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20)

Authors: R. Michael Bagby, James D. A. Parker and Graeme J. Taylor

The TAS is a 20-item instrument that is one of the most commonly used measures of alexithymia. Alexithymia refers to people who have trouble identifying and describing emotions and who tend to minimise emotional experience and focus attention externally.

The TAS-20 has 3 subscales:
• Difficulty Describing Feelings subscale is used to measure difficulty describing emotions. 5 items – 2, 4, 11, 12, 17.
• Difficulty Identifying Feeling subscale is used to measure difficulty identifying emotions. 7 items – 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 13, 14.
• Externally-Oriented Thinking subscale is used to measure the tendency of individuals to focus their attention externally. 8 items – 5, 8, 10, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20.

Scoring: The TAS-20 is a self-report scale that is comprised of 20 items. Items are rated using a 5-point Likert scale whereby 1 = strongly disagree and 5 = strongly agree. There are 5 items that are negatively keyed (items 4, 5, 10, 18 and 19). The total alexithymia score is the sum of responses to all 20 items, while the score for each subscale factor is the sum of the responses to that subscale. The TAS-20 uses cutoff scoring: equal to or less than 51 = non-alexithymia, equal to or greater than 61 = alexithymia. Scores of 52 to 60 = possible alexithymia.

Reliability: Demonstrates good internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = .81) and test-retest reliability (.77, p<.01). Validity: Research using the TAS-20 demonstrates adequate levels of convergent and concurrent validity. The 3 factor structure was found to be theoretically congruent with the alexithymia construct. In addition, it has been found to be stable and replicable across clinical and nonclinical populations.

Reference: Bagby, R. M., Parker, J. D. A. & Taylor, G. J. (1994). The twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale-I. Item selection and cross-validation of the factor structure. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 38, 23-32." Information quoted from Ciarrochi, J. & Bilich, L. (2006). Process measures of potential relevance to ACT. Unpublished manuscript, University of Wollongong, Australia.

Please see http://www.gtaylorpsychiatry.org/tas.htm for additional details.

admin February 16, 2008 - 7:25pm

TAS-20 - Albanian

Arenliu, A., Krasniqi, B., Kelmendi, K., & Statovci, S. (2021). Exploring Factor Validity of 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) in Albanian Clinical and Nonclinical Samples. SAGE Open. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020988726

Community July 16, 2021 - 10:47am

TAS-20 - Arabic

El Abiddine, F. Z., Dave, H., Aldhafri, S., El-Astal, S., Hemaid, F., & Parker, J. D. A. (2017). Cross-validation of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale: Results from an Arabic multicenter study. Personality and Individual Differences, 113, 219–222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.03.017

Community July 16, 2021 - 2:44pm

TAS-20 - Bulgarian

Popov, V., Psederska, E., Peneva, E., Bozgunov, K., Vasilev, G., Nedelchev, D., & Vassileva, J. (2016). Psychometric Characteristics of the Bulgarian Version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). Psychological Research, 19(2), 25-42. The Bulgarian translation of the TAS-20 items is in table 1. The full text of the article can be found at venpopov.com

Community July 15, 2021 - 11:23pm

TAS-20 - Chinese

YUAN Yonggui, SHEN Zuohua, ZHANG Xiangrong, WU Aiqin, SUN Houchun, ZHANG Ning, ZHANG Xinbao, LI Hailin (2003) The reliability and validity of Toronto alexithymia scale (TAS - 20). SICHUAN MENTAL HEALTH, Year: 2003 Issue: 1, 25-27.

Xiongzhao Zhu, Jinyao Yi, Shuqiao Yao, Andrew G. Ryder, Graeme J. Taylor, & R. Michael Bagby (2007) Cross-cultural validation of a Chinese translation of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 48(5), 489-496. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2007.04.007

Ling, Y., Zeng, Y., Yuan, H., & Zhong, M. (2016). Cross-cultural validation of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale in Chinese adolescents. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing, 23(3-4), 179–187. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12298

Community July 16, 2021 - 11:13am

TAS-20 - Croatian

Kusevic, Z., Civljak, M., Rukavina, T. V., Babic, G., Loncar, M., Cusa, B. V., & Gregurek, R. (2013). The Connection between Alexithymia and Somatic Morbidity in a Population of Combat Veterans with Chronic PTSD. Acta informatica medica: AIM: journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina, 21(1), 7–11. https://doi.org/10.5455/AIM.2013.21.7-11

Community August 14, 2021 - 12:44am

TAS-20 - Czech

Anna Faltýnková (2018) Souvislost alexithymie a závislosti na online hraní. Thesis. The Czech version of the TAS-20 is in the Appendix.

Community July 16, 2021 - 9:23pm

TAS-20 - Dutch

Kooiman, C. G., Spinhoven, P., & Trijsburg, R. W. (2002). The assessment of alexithymia. A critical review of the literature and a psychometric study of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 53, 1083-1090. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-3999(02)00348-3

Meganck, R., Vanheule, S., & Desmet, M. (2008). Does the TAS-20 measure alexithymia? A study of natural language use. 28th European Conference on Psychosomatic Research, Abstracts. Presented at the 28th European Conference on Psychosomatic Research (ECPR - 2012).

Inslegers, R., Meganck, R., Ooms, E., Vanheule, S., Bagby, M., Taylor, G., De Fruyt, F., et al. (2013). The Dutch language version of the Toronto structured interview for Alexithymia: reliability, concurrent validity, and factor structure. PSYCHOLOGICA BELGICA, 53(1), 93–116.

Community August 11, 2021 - 11:50pm

TAS-20 - Finnish

Matti Joukamaa, Jouko Miettunen, Pirkko Kokkonen, Minna Koskinen, Juhani Julkunen, Jussi Kauhanen, Jari Jokelainen, Juha Veijola, Kristian Läksy, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin (2001). Psychometric properties of the Finnish 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 55(2), 123-127. http://doi.org/10.1080/08039480116694

Säkkinen, P. et al. (2007) Psychometric Properties of the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale and Prevalence of Alexithymia in a Finnish Adolescent Population. Psychosomatics, 48 (2), 154-161. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psy.48.2.154

Community July 15, 2021 - 11:12pm

TAS-20 - French

Watters, C.A., Taylor, G.J., Ayearst, L., Bagby, R.M. (2019) Measurement invariance of English and French language versions of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 35, 29-36.

Loas, G., Fremaux, D., & Marchand, M. P. (1995). Etude de la structure factorielle et de la cohérence interne de la version française de l'échelle d'alexithymie de Toronto à 20 items (TAS-20) chez un groupe de 183 sujets sains [Factorial structure and internal consistency of the French version of the twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale in a group of 183 healthy probands]. L'Encephale, 21(2), 117–122.

Loas G., Otmani O., Verrier A., Fremaux D. & Marchand M.P. (1995) Factor Analysis of the French Version of the 20-ltem Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). Psychopathology, 29, 139–144. https://doi.org/10.1159/000284983

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TAS-20 - German

Grabe, H.J., Löbel, S, Dittrich, D., Bagby, R.M., Taylor, G.J., Quilty, L.C., Spitzer, C., Barnow, S., Mathier, F., Jenewein, J., Freyberger, H.J., Ruffer, M. (2009). The German Version of the Toronto Structured Interview for Alexithymia: Factor Structure, Reliability, and Concurrent Validity in a Psychiatric Patient Sample. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 50, 424-430.

Bach, M., Bach, D., de Zwaan, M., & Serim, M. (1996). Validierung der deutschen Version der 20-Item Toronto-Alexithymie-Skala bei Normalpersonen und psychiatrischen Patienten [Validation of the German version of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale in normal adults and psychiatric inpatients]. PPmP: Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie, 46(1), 23–28.

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TAS-20 - Greek

Ioannis Tsaousis, Graeme Taylor, Lena Quilty, Stelios Georgiades, Marios Stavrogiannopoulos, R. Michael Bagby (2010) Validation of a Greek adaptation of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 51(4), 443-448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2009.09.005 Full text of the article is on psychology.soc.uoc.gr

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TAS-20 - Hindi

Pandey, R., Mandal, M.K., Taylor, G.J. & Parker, J.D.A. (1996). Cross-cultural alexithymia: Development and validation of a Hindi translation of the 20-item Toronto alexithymia scale. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 52, 173-176. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4679(199603)52:2<173::AID-JCLP8>3.0.CO;2-V

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TAS-20 - Hungarian

Cserjesi Renata , Luminet Olivier , Lenard Laszlo (2007) RELIABILITY AND FACTOR VALIDITY OF THE HUNGARIAN TRANSLATION OF THE TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE IN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT SAMPLES. Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review), 62,3, 355-368.

Cserjesi, Renata & Luminet, Olivier & Lénárd, László. (2007). A Torontói Alexitímia Skála (TAS-20) magyar változata: Megbízhatósága és faktorvaliditása egyetemista mintán [Hungarian version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20): Reliability and factor validity in a student sample]. Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle, 62. https://doi.org/10.1556/mpszle.62.2007.3.4

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TAS-20 - Indonesian

Geni, P. (2020). Struktur Internal dan Validitas Konstruk dari Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) dengan Sampel Mahasiswa pada Universitas di Jakarta. JP3I (Jurnal Pengukuran Psikologi dan Pendidikan Indonesia), 9(1), 30-40. https://doi.org/10.15408/jp3i.v9i1.15450

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TAS-20 - Italian

Bressi, C. et al. (1996) Cross validation of the factor structure of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale: An Italian multicenter study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 41(6), 551-559. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-3999(96)00228-0

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TAS-20 - Japanese

Komaki, G., Maeda, M., Arimura, T., Nakata, A., Shinoda, H., OgataI Shimura, M., Kawamura, N., & Kubo, C. (2003) The reliability and factorial validity of the Japanese version of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 55(2), 143. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-3999(03)00360-X

Moriguchi, Y., Maeda, M., Igarashi, T. et al. (2007) Age and gender effect on alexithymia in large, Japanese community and clinical samples: a cross-validation study of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). BioPsychoSocial Med 1, 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/1751-0759-1-7

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TAS-20 - Korean

Woon-Sun Jeong, et al. (2003). Comparison of Reliability and Validity of Three Korean Versions of the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale. Psycho-Physical Medicine, 11(1), 77 - 88.

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TAS-20 - Latvian

Laura Bubko, Annija Mežmača, Inese Jurķāne, Zane Lucāne, Artūrs Ancāns “TORONTO – ALEXITHYMIA SCALE 20” SCORES AMONG PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS COMPARED TO OTHER INPATIENTS. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 58th INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE OF DAUGAVPILS UNIVERSITY.

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TAS-20 - Lithuanian

Beresnevaitė, M., Taylor, G.J., Parker, J.D.A., & Andziulis, A. (1998). Cross validation of the factor structure of a Lithuanian translation of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale. Acta Medica Lituanica, 5(2): 146-149.

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TAS-20 - Macedonian

Pop-Jordanova, N., Polenakovic, M., Pop-Jordanov, J., Shaltanovska, H., & Trajceska, L. (2013). Are Macedonian chronic patients alexithymic? Prilozi (Makedonska Akademija na Naukite i umetnostite. Oddelenie za Medicinski Nauki), 34(3), 31-38.

Pop-Jordanova N, Boskovska V. (1995). TAS-20 as a measure of alexithymia in Macedonian population. Neurologia Croatica, 44(1), 60.

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TAS-20 - Norwegian

Pedersen, G., Normann-Eide, E., Eikenaes, I. U., Kvarstein, E. H., & Wilberg, T. (2021 in press). Psychometric evaluation of the Norwegian Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) in a multisite clinical sample of patients with personality disorders and personality problems. Journal of clinical psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23270

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TAS-20 - Persian/Farsi

Besharat, M. A. (2007). Reliability and Factorial Validity of a Farsi Version of the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale with a Sample of Iranian Students. Psychological Reports, 101(1), 209–220. https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.101.1.209-220

Besharat, M. (2008). Psychometric Characteristics of Persian Version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 in Clinical and Non-Clinical Samples. Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 33(1), 1-6.

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TAS-20 - Polish

Ścigała, D.K., Zdankiewicz-Ścigała, E., Bedyńska, S. & Kokoszka, A. (2020) Psychometric Properties and Configural Invariance of the Polish – Language Version of the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale in Non-clinical and Alcohol Addict Persons. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01241

Ścigała, Dawid & Zdankiewicz-Ścigała, Elżbieta & Bedyńska, Sylwia & Kokoszka, Andrzej. (2020). Toronto Alexithymia Scale TAS -20 PL. The Polish TAS-20 is available on researchgate.

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TAS-20 - Portuguese

Verissimo R. (2001). Versão Portuguesa da Escala de Alexitimia de Toronto de 20-itens--I. Adaptação linguística, validação semântica, e estudo de fiabilidade [The Portuguese version of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale -- I. Linguistic adaptation, semantic validation, and reliability study]. Acta medica portuguesa, 14(5-6), 529–536.

Stivaleti Colombarolli, M., Carolina Zuanazzi, A., Koich Miguel, F., & Giromini, L. (2019). Psychometric properties of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) in Brazil. Transcultural Psychiatry, 56(5), 992–1010. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461519847312

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TAS-20 - Romanian

Raluca A. Morariu, Lindsay E. Ayearst, Graeme J. Taylor, R. Michael Bagby (2013). DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A ROMANIAN ADAPTATION OF THE 20-ITEM TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE (TAS-20-RO). Revista Romana de Psihiatrie, 4. Full text of the article is available on www.romjpsychiat.ro

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TAS-20 - Russian

Starostina, E. G., Taylor, G. D., Quilty, L. K., Bobrov, A. E., Moshnyaga, E. N., Puzyreva, N. V., Bobrova, M. A., Ivashkina, M. G., Krivchikova, M. N., Shavrikova, E. P., & Bagby, M. (2010). Торонтская шкала алекситимии (20 пунктов): валидизация русскоязычной версии на выборке терапевтических больных [Toronto Alexithymia Scale (20 points): validation of the Russian-language version on a sample of therapeutic patients]. Social and Clinical Psychiatry, 20(4), 31–38.

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TAS-20 - Serbian

Trajanovic, N., Djurić, V., Latas, M., Milovanović, S., Jovanović, A., & Djurić, D. (2013). Serbian translation of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale: psychometric properties and the new methodological approach in translating scales. Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo, 141 5-6, 366-70. http://doi.org/10.2298/SARH1306366T
The Serbian translation of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale is in Appendix I. The full text of the article is available on www.semanticscholar.org

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TAS-20 - Slovak

LÁTALOVÁ, V. & PILÁRIK, Ľ. (2015) OVERENIE RELIABILITY A FAKTOROVEJ VALIDITY SLOVENSKEJ VERZIE DOTAZNÍKA TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE-20 NA SÚBORE SLOVENSKÝCH ŠTUDENTIEK. Ceskoslovenska Psychologie, 59, 4,369-379.

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TAS-20 - Somali

References:

Kankaanpää, S. (2017). Mental Health Among Somali Origin Migrants in Finland. Dissertation: University of Tampere.

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TAS-20 - Spanish

González-Arias, M., Martínez-Molina, A., Galdames , S., Urzúa, A. (2018) Psychometric Properties of the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale in the Chilean Population. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 963. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00963 The TAS-20 Spanish version is in Table 1.

Fernández-Jiménez, E., Pérez-San-Gregoria, A., Taylor, G.J., Bagby, R.M., Ayearst, L.E., Izquierdo, G. (2013). Psychometric properties of a revised Spanish 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale adaptation in multiple sclerosis patients. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 13, 226-234.

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TAS-20 - Swedish

Simonsson-Sarnecki, M., Lundh, L. G., Törestad, B., Bagby, R. M., Taylor, G. J., & Parker, J. D. (2000). A Swedish translation of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale: cross-validation of the factor structure. Scandinavian journal of psychology, 41(1), 25–30. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9450.00167

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TAS-20 - Turkish

Güleç, Hüseyin & Kose, Samet & Yazici, Medine & Çıtak, Serhat & Evren, Cuneyt & Borckardt, Jeffrey & Sayar, Kemal. (2009). The Turkish Version of the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20): Reliability, Validity, and Factorial Structure. Bulletin of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 19, 214-220.
The Turkish Translation of the TAS-20 is in the Appendix. The full text of the article is available on halileksi.net

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TAS-20 - Urdu

Saba Ghayas, Sadia Niazi, Maria Ghazal and Wajeeha Tahir (2017) Urdu Translation and Validation of Toronto Alexithymia Scale. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 43(1), 114-12

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Computerized measures

In this page I have uploaded a series of computerized measures that I have written in Visual Basic for Applications and used in a few studies. One of these measures, the Deictic Relational Task is a deictic framing measure that captures both deictic accuracy and fluency. We have been developing this measure over the last years with Michael Levin, Steven C. Hayes, Colin Stromberg and others.

There are many advantages to use Microsoft PowerPoint to write your computerized questionnaires and tasks. First of all, it is a highly disseminated software that I think most of you have. Secondly, it can potentially reduce acquiescence bias since you can change the background and format of each measure and you will be more likely to keep the participant's attention throughout.

The code of these slides (which you can find if you add the developer tab under options and click "visual basic") is freely available for modification and improvement as long as your intent is to benefit your clients, research and/or for enhancing the work of other scientist practitioners and researchers. Please, feel free to contact me if you find ways to improve the visual basic code or for questions about it. If you have questions about how to score the Deictic Relational Task or about how to compile all the measures together in a single PowerPoint document, let me know as well.

Note: make sure you enable macro before you try the measure (ex: Powerpoint Options/Trust Center/Trust Center Settings/Macro Settings/Enable all macros).

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