Thought Action Fusion in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

By S. Ciftci, T. Kuru. 2013

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Mental contamination in obsessive–compulsive disorder (2012, unknown): “’ The TAF scale contains items pertaining to moral TAF, and items related to harm to self and harm to others, and has good internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = .92; Shafran et al., 1996).”
The development and initial validation of the cognitive fusion questionnaire. (2014, background): “Despite the similarity in name, Thought Action Fusion (TAF: Shafran et al., 1996) describes biased metacognitive belief content (e.g. thinking of something bad happening will make it more likely to happen) rather than the shift in perspective that is suggested by other terms such as decentering,…”
Catastrophic Thinking: A Transdiagnostic Process Across Psychiatric Disorders (2016, background): “…thoughts are equivalent to unacceptable actions, and TAF likelihood, the belief that thinking about a catastrophic event can cause it to happen, have been explored as integral components of catastrophic misinterpretation in individuals with OCD (Shafran et al. 1996; Berle and Starcevic 2005).”