Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire

CFQ Update August 2011:

The CFQ is a 13-item self-report questionnaire that measures cognitive fusion. It has shown very good reliability across 4 separate samples of community dwelling adults (total n = 1072, Cronbach’s α = .86). In addition, the CFQ has very good test-retest reliability over a one month period (r=.82, p<.001, n = 74). It has a theoretically coherent factor structure across all 4 non-clinical samples and correlates highly and in theoretically predicted directions with measures of related constructs such as experiential avoidance, mindfulness, distress, rumination, thought control strategies and life satisfaction, quality of life and consistency of living important values. In addition, preliminary data on the CFQ13 in clinical samples shows that it has good reliability (Cronbach’s α = .88, n = 173), can distinguish between people with psychological disorders and healthy participants, and correlates strongly and in theoretically coherent directions with other relevant measures, including distress, personality functioning, symptoms of depression, mindfulness, experiential avoidance and frequency of negative automatic thoughts.

The data sheet is downloadable to ACBS members. It contains the questionnaire, the data on its psychometric properties and importantly; the names of several graduate students in clinical psychology and their supervisors, as well as other collaborators who have helped to establish the validity of this questionnaire. We are now starting to write this work up and will submit it for publication as soon as we can. The team leading the development of the CFQ are:

David Gillanders, University of Edinburgh, Helen Bolderston, Southampton University & Frank Bond, University of London, Goldsmiths