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The Nondual Awareness Dimensional Assessment (NADA): New tools to assess nondual traits and states of consciousness occurring within and beyond the context of meditation

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Hanley, Adam W., Nakamura, Yoshio, Garland, Eric L.·2018·Psychological Assessment
DOI 10.1037/pas0000615PMC PMC6265073
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= 53) comparing participants receiving a mindfulness induction (i.e., body scan) with those in an attention control group revealed state effects of mindfulness on nondual awareness using two, alternate forms of the NADA-S. Thus, the NADA-T appears to be psychometrically sound, representing a novel, standardized instrument capable of facilitating quantitative investigation of nondual awareness. Furthermore, the NADA-S may be useful for measuring fluctuations in nondual states of awareness evoked during mindfulness meditation practice and other contemplative techniques designed to transform consciousness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).

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  • ST-related processes are associated with greater psychological flexibility, enhanced emotion regulation, increased connectedness, and more adaptive integration of challenging experiences.

    “Emerging empirical and theoretical work on mindfulness, meaning-making, and self-transcendent experience suggests that ST-related processes are associated with greater psychological flexibility, enhanced emotion regulation, increased connectedness, and more adaptive integration of challenging experiences (34–39).”

    From The therapeutic role of self-transcendence in moral injury recovery: theory, mechanisms, and clinical implications (2026) · cites this paper as [38]

    Study 2, Part 2b (page unavailable) reports associations between nondual self-transcendence and decentering, broad self-representation, and interoceptive self-regulation—findings relevant to flexibility, connectedness, and emotion regulation. It does not establish that these processes improve those capacities, and the passages do not address adaptive integration of challenging experiences. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  • Existing instruments such as the Nondual Awareness Dimensional Assessment, the Mysticism Scale, and indices of self-transcendent emotions provide preliminary tools for capturing both everyday and high-intensity manifestations of self-transcendence.

    “Existing instruments such as the Nondual Awareness Dimensional Assessment, the Mysticism Scale, and indices of self-transcendent emotions provide preliminary tools for capturing both every day and high-intensity manifestations of ST (38, 58).”

    From The therapeutic role of self-transcendence in moral injury recovery: theory, mechanisms, and clinical implications (2026) · cites this paper as [38]

    Study 1 (page unavailable) identifies the Mysticism Scale as a measure of mystical experiences, and Study 3 describes NADA measures of self-transcendent traits and states, including changes during meditation. These passages support the existence of tools for different manifestations of self-transcendence, but this paper does not establish the claimed indices of self-transcendent emotions or show that the listed instruments collectively capture both everyday and high-intensity manifestations. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Much of the self-transcendence literature relies on self-report instruments that face issues of construct overlap and response bias.

    “Much of the ST literature relies on self-report instruments such as the Self-Transcendence Scale (109) and the Nondual Awareness Dimensional Assessment (38), which—like other contemplative measures—face issues of construct overlap and response bias (110).”

    From The therapeutic role of self-transcendence in moral injury recovery: theory, mechanisms, and clinical implications (2026) · cites this paper as [38]

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Authors
Hanley, A. W., Nakamura, Y., & Garland, E. L.
ORCID
Venue
Psychological Assessment
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
2018-12
Volume
30
Issue
12
Pages
1625-1639
ISSN
  • 1040-3590 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-134X
DOI
10.1037/pas0000615
PMC
PMC6265073
OpenAlex
W2886043371
Cited by
130
References
82
Citations by year
2026: 21 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 4 · 2015: 1
FWCI
8.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Psychological Assessment (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA042033)
  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (R61AT009296)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Keywords
non-dual awareness, mindfulness meditation, body scanning, psychometric validation, contemplative practice, consciousness transformation
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Awareness, Consciousness, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Students, Meditation, Principal Component Analysis, Young Adult, Mindfulness

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