Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire (ATQ)

The Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire (ATQ; Hollon & Kendall, 1980). The ATQ measures depressogenic thought frequency. This measure is commonly used in depression studies examining the impact of cognitive therapy. However, the ATQ-B is a revision to this measure by Zettle and Hayes (ATQ-B, Zettle & Hayes, 1986) aimed at assessing the believability of these depressive thoughts if they occur and it has been used as a proxy measure for defusion in the ACT community. We recommend that you use both subscales; the ATQ-F for frequency of automatic/depressive thoughts and the ATQ-B for believability of (or fusion with) these thoughts. Scoring for the measure is typically a simple sum score for the F sub scale and the B sub scale. The F and B scores can be used in analyses as separate entities and have been shown to be differentially related to outcomes (e.g., frequency of thoughts was not reduced at post treatment but believability of them was reduced) in studies of depression using behavioral interventions.

Reference: Zettle, R. D. & Hayes, S. C. (1986). Dysfunctional control by client verbal behavior: The context of reason giving. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 4, 30 38.

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ATQ - Portuguese

Pereira, I., Matos, A., & Azevedo, A. (2014). Portuguese version of the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire – Revised: Relation with depressive symptomatology in adolescents. Psicologia, Saúde & Doenças, 15, 37-47. http://doi.org/10.15309/14psd150105

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ATQ - Chinese

CAO Ri-fang, CHENG Shu-lin, TANG Wen-xin, SONG Hai-dong (2001) The Reliability and Validity of Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2, 108.

Jia‐Yan Pan, Shengquan Ye, Petrus Ng (2015) Validation of the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire (ATQ) Among Mainland Chinese Students in Hong Kong. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 72, 1, 38-48. DOI: 10.1002/jclp.22193

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ATQ - Danish

Lichtenstein, M.B. et al (2019). A psychometric evaluation of the automatic thoughts questionnaire in Danish adolescents and emerging adults. Nordic Psychology, 71(4), 262-275. http://doi.org/10.1080/19012276.2019.1604252

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ATQ - Dutch

Boelen PA. (2007) Psychometric properties of the Dutch version of the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire - Positive (ATQ - P). Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 36(1), 23-33. http://doi.org/10.1080/16506070600874315

Raes, F., & Hermans, D. (2011). De Nederlandstalige versie van de Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire-Revised (ATQ-R-NL) [The Dutch version of the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire-Revised (ATQ-R-NL)]. Gedragstherapie, 44(1), 53–62.

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ATQ - French

Lebreuilly, R. & Alsaleh, M. (2019) Élaboration d’un questionnaire court de pensées automatiques positives et négatives (ATQ-18-Fr) auprès d’étudiants français [Study to develop the positive and negative Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire (ATQ-18-Fr) for French students]. Journal de Thérapie Comportementale et Cognitive, 29(3), 132-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcc.2019.01.003

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ATQ - Italian

Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire (ATQ)

Zettle, R. D. & Hayes, S. C. (1986). Dysfunctional control by client verbal behavior: The context of reason giving. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 4, 30-38.

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

Traduzione Italiana (2.0) a cura di Melchiorri, E., Francesconi, C., Rossi, E., Ristè, N., Violini, P., Lijoi, E., Cioci, M. (2013) AISCC, Gruppo Ricerca ACT.

Traduzione Italiana (3.0) a cura di Melchiorri, E., Rossi, E., Violini, P., Ristè, N., Lijoi, E., (2014) AISCC, Gruppo Ricerca ACT.

Referenza bibliografica: Rossi, E., Melchiorri, E., Lijoi, E., Ristè, N., Violini, P., Panzera, A., (2014). A Preliminary Study on Validating the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire (ATQ) in Italian Adolescents. Poster presented at ACBS World Conference 12 Poster Session - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - June 17-22, 2014.

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

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ATQ - Japanese

TANAKA, N., UJI, M., HIRAMURA, H., CHEN, Z., SHIKAI, N. and KITAMURA, T. (2006). Cognitive patterns and depression: Study of a Japanese university student population. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 60, 358-364. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.2006.01514.x

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ATQ - Malay

Oei, T. P. S.; Mukhtar, F. (2008) Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Validation and Psychometric Properties of the automatic Thoughts Questionnaire for Malays (ATQ-Malay) in Malaysia. Hong Kong Journal of Psychiatry, 18(3), 92-100.

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ATQ - Norwegian

Chioqueta, A. & Stiles, T. (2004). Norwegian version of the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire: A reliability and validity study. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 33, 79-82. http://doi.org/10.1080/16506070310016031

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ATQ - Persian

Ghassemzadeh, H., Mojtabai, R., Karamghadiri, N., & Ebrahimkhani, N. (2006). Psychometric properties of a Persian-language version of the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire: ATQ-Persian. The International journal of social psychiatry, 52(2), 127–137. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764006062095

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ATQ - Spanish

Ruiz, F., Suárez-Falcón, J., & Riaño-Hernández, D. (2017). Validity Evidence of the Spanish Version of the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire–8 in Colombia. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 20, E12. http://doi.org/10.1017/sjp.2017.7

Ruiz, F.J., Segura-Vargas M.A., Odriozola-González, P., & Suárez-Falcón J.C. (2020). Psychometric properties of the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire-8 in two Spanish nonclinical samples. PeerJ, 8,e9747 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9747

Community June 10, 2021 - 12:43pm

ATQ - Tamil

Dr. Veera Balaji Kumar has shared his Tamil translation of ATQ. Therapists working with Tamil speaking clients can utilize this measure.

Proviso: Although this translation was cross-checked by a language expert and found workable in Veera's practice, it has not been psychometrically tested for accuracy.

Community July 21, 2021 - 4:33pm

ATQ - Turkish

Bozkurt, N , Aysan, F . (2013). GELİŞTİRİLMİŞ OTOMATİK DÜŞÜNCELER ÖLÇEĞI(ODÖ - G)'NİN LİSE ÖĞRENCİLERİ İÇİN GEÇERLİK VE GÜVENİRLİK ÇALIŞMASI . Marmara Üniversitesi Atatürk Eğitim Fakültesi Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi , 12 (12) , 91-108 .

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