The Development and Validation of the Comprehensive Assessment of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Processes (CompACT)—Malay Version
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Objectives: psychological flexibility is a crucial construct highly correlated with psychological wellness. There is a need for a tool to measure psychological flexibility in order to accurately ascertain the effects of treatment. The existing industry standard, the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II), has issues with conflating psychological flexibility with distress; moreover, it does not cover the hexaflexes. The 23-item CompACT was designed to surmount these limitations. Methods: the classical test theory (CTT) and Rasch measurement theory (RMT) were used to check the validity and reliability of the Malay version of the CompACT Scale. Cronbach’s α, McDonald’s Ω, and greatest lower bound were used to measure internal consistency. A Pearson’s correlation test was used to measure test–retest reliability of the Malay versus the original English version. For validity, convergent validity was established by using the Malay AAQ-7 Scale. The dimensionality of the Malay version of the CompACT Scale was explored using exploratory factor analysis. For the RMT, weighted fit statistics (infit) and outlier sensitive fit statistic (outfit) mean square (MnSq) values were used at the item level, while item and person separation reliability values and item and person separation indices were applied at the scale level. Results: the internal consistency measures, including Cronbach α and McDonald’s Ω, passed the suggested cutoff points. Convergent validity with the AAQ-II was 0.693. The quality of the Malay version of the CompACT Scale was also satisfactory, as all item and person reliability values and indices exceeded the suggested cut-off points. Conclusions: the Malay CompACT is a psychometrically sound instrument to assess psychological flexibility in both clinical and research settings.
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The Malay adaptation of CompACT was refined to a 22-item three-factor structure.
“the Malay adaptation was refined to a 22-item three-factor structure (Musa et al., 2022)”
From ASSESSING PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY: THE PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE CZECH TRANSLATION OF THE COMPACT QUESTIONNAIRE (2024) · cites this paper as Musa et al., 2022
The Czech adaptation shares similar issues with the Openness to Experience subscales as other foreign adaptations of the questionnaire.
“The Czech adaptation shares similar issues with the Openness to Experience sub -scales as other foreign adaptations of the questionnaire.”
From ASSESSING PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY: THE PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE CZECH TRANSLATION OF THE COMPACT QUESTIONNAIRE (2024) · cites this paper as Musa et al., 2022
Item 18 was not retained in the Malay adaptation.
“item 18 was not retained in the Malay adaptation (Musa et al., 2022).”
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- Authors
- Musa, N., Pang, N. T. P., Kamu, A., Ho, C. M., Waters, C., Berrett, J., Moghaddam, N., & Wider, W.
- Affiliations
- Universiti of Malaysia Sabah (MY)
- Cardiff University (GB)
- University of Lincoln (GB)
- INTI International University (MY)
- Corresponding author
- Pang, Nicholas Tze Ping
- Venue
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2022-08-05
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 15
- Pages
- 9624
- ISSN
- 1660-4601 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9368339
- OpenAlex
- W4289866511
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3
- FWCI
- 1.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Lincoln Repository (University of Lincoln) (acceptedVersion)
- ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (acceptedVersion)
- UMS Institutional Repository (Universiti Malaysia Sabah) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- acceptance and commitment therapy, psychological flexibility, Malay translation, Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II, psychometric validation, Rasch measurement, cross-cultural adaptation
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Malaysia, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reproducibility of Results, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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