The Development and Initial Validation of the Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire

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• 作者：David T. Gill ; ers ; Helen Bolderston ; Frank W. Bond ; Maria Dempster ; Paul E. Flaxman ; Lindsey Campbell ; Sian Kerr ; Louise Tansey ; Penelope Noel ; Clive Ferenbach ; Samantha Masley ; Louise Roach ; Joda Lloyd ; Lauraine May ; Susan Clarke ; Bob Remington
• 关键词：cognitive-behavior therapy ; acceptance and commitment therapy ; measurement ; questionnaires ; cognitive fusion
• 刊名：Behavior Therapy
• 出版年：January, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：45
• 期：1
• 页码：83-101
• 全文大小：318 K

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes the relationship a person has with their thoughts and beliefs as potentially more relevant than belief content in predicting the emotional and behavioral consequences of cognition. In ACT, 鈥渄efusion鈥?interventions aim to 鈥渦nhook鈥?thoughts from actions and to create psychological distance between a person and their thoughts, beliefs, memories, and self-stories. A number of similar concepts have been described in the psychology literature (e.g., decentering, metacognition, mentalization, and mindfulness) suggesting converging evidence that how we relate to mental events may be of critical importance. While there are some good measures of these related processes, none of them provides an adequate operationalization of cognitive fusion. Despite the centrality of cognitive fusion in the ACT model, there is as yet no agreed-upon measure of cognitive fusion. This paper presents the construction and development of a brief, self-report measure of cognitive fusion: The Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (CFQ). The results of a series of studies involving over 1,800 people across diverse samples show good preliminary evidence of the CFQ鈥檚 factor structure, reliability, temporal stability, validity, discriminant validity, and sensitivity to treatment effects. The potential uses of the CFQ in research and clinical practice are outlined.