Initial psychometric properties of the experiences questionnaire: validation of a self-report measure of decentering.

By D. Fresco, Michael T. Moore, M. V. van Dulmen, Z. Segal, S. H. Ma, J. Teasdale, J. M. G. Williams. The Behavior Therapist, 2007

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology

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Buddhist-Derived Loving-Kindness and Compassion Meditation for the Treatment of Psychopathology: a Systematic Review (2015, background): “CCT participants demonstrated significant improvements over non-meditating participants in levels of mindfulness (Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills, Baer et al. 2004); Experiences Questionnaire, Fresco et al. 2007), worry (Penn State Worry Questionnaire, Meyer et al. 1990), and emotional supp”
The Drexel defusion scale: A new measure of experiential distancing (2012, methodology): “This notion is confirmed by the authors’ own definition: ‘‘measuring the changes assumed to occur in MBCT, including decentering’’ (Fresco et al., 2007, p. 236, emphasis added).”
A randomized controlled trial of compassion cultivation training: Effects on mindfulness, affect, and emotion regulation (2013, positive): “The Experiences Questionnaire (EQ; Fresco et al. 2007), is a 20-item self-report measure designed to examine rumination and decentering or ‘‘reperceiving’’, defined as ‘‘the ability to observe one’s thoughts and feelings as temporary, objective events in the mind, as opposed to reflections of the…”
The impact of mindfulness on well-being and performance in the workplace: an inclusive systematic review of the empirical literature (2017, background): “…“standing back” – referred to by Shapiro et al. as “reperceiving” – is also known as “decentring”, i.e., “the ability to observe one’s thoughts and feelings as temporary, objective events in the mind, as opposed to reflections of the self that are necessarily true” (Fresco et al., 2007, p. 234).”
Mindfulness-based interventions in the workplace: An inclusive systematic review and meta-analysis of their impact upon wellbeing (2018, background): “As outlined in the introduction, a key mechanism through which mindfulness is theorised to exert its positive effects is ‘reperceiving’ (Shapiro et al., 2006), also known as decentring (Fresco et al., 2007), which can be regarded as an aspect of a more general capacity of emotion regulation.”
Specificity of cognitive emotion regulation strategies: a transdiagnostic examination. (2010, result): “It did not correlate with ERQ Reappraisal (r¼ .01, p¼ .91), which is in line with the CFA conducted by Gross and John (2003) in their initial validation of the ERQ and with subsequent investigations examining both subscales (e.g., Fresco et al., 2007; Magar, Phillips, & Hosie, 2008).”
Mindfulness, by any other name…: trials and tribulations of sati in western psychology and science (2011, background): “Such a careful approach is, indeed, already followed by some researchers (‘de-centering’, Fresco et al. 2007; meta-cognitive awareness (Hargus et al. 2010; Teasdale et al. 2002).”
Investigating the Phenomenological Matrix of Mindfulness-related Practices from a Neurocognitive Perspective (2015, background): “This tendency to treat Meta-awareness and Dereification as identical also appears in the psychological literature, where accounts of “cognitive defusion” (Hayes, 2004) and “decentering” (e.g., Fresco et al., 2007) do not clearly distinguish these capacities.”
Intensive mindfulness training-related changes in cognitive and emotional experience (2009, positive): “Decentering (or reperceiving) refers to the capacity to take a detached or objective stance on one’s thoughts and emotions (Fresco et al., 2007; Shapiro et al., 2006).”