Psychometric evaluation of the thought-action fusion scale in a large clinical sample
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This study examined the psychometric properties of the 19-item Thought–Action Fusion (TAF) Scale, a measure of maladaptive cognitive intrusions, in a large clinical sample ( N = 700). An exploratory factor analysis ( n = 300) yielded two interpretable factors: TAF Moral (TAF-M) and TAF Likelihood (TAF-L). A confirmatory bifactor analysis was conducted on the second portion of the sample ( n = 400) to account for possible sources of item covariance using a general TAF factor (subsuming TAF-M) alongside the TAF-L domain-specific factor. The bifactor model provided an acceptable fit to the sample data. Results indicated that global TAF was more strongly associated with a measure of obsessive-compulsiveness than measures of general worry and depression, and the TAF-L dimension was more strongly related to obsessive-compulsiveness than depression. Overall, results support the bifactor structure of the TAF in a clinical sample and its close relationship to its neighboring obsessive-compulsiveness construct.
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OCD patients are particularly prone to thought-action fusion bias.
“The fact that OCD patients are particularly prone to this bias (40–42) corresponds to recent structural and functional neuroimaging findings that support the association between OCD symptoms and the alterations reported in PCU such as gray matter reductions (43, 44) and increased precuneal activity (45) corresponding to intensity of symptomatology (46).”
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- Authors
- Meyer, J. F., & Brown, T. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Rhode Island (US)
- Boston University (US)
- ORCID
- Brown, Timothy A.
- Venue
- Assessment
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2012-02-06
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 764-775
- ISSN
- 1073-1911 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3489
- PMC
- PMC4418236
- OpenAlex
- W2105687660
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 62
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- FWCI
- 3.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Assessment (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH039096, R01MH039096)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Keywords
- thought-action fusion, obsessive-compulsiveness, bifactor model, factor structure, depression, worry, psychometric properties
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Agoraphobia, Ambulatory Care, Anxiety Disorders, Cognition Disorders, Culture, Depressive Disorder, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Personality Assessment, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Self Concept, Social Responsibility, Thinking, Reproducibility of Results, Panic Disorder, Young Adult
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