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