Table 1.

Decentering-Related Constructs and the Proposed Metacognitive Processes of Decentering

	Metacognitive processes
Decentering-related constructs	Meta-awareness	Disidentification from internal experience	Reduced reactivity to thought content
Decentering (Safran & Segal, 1990)	x	x	x
Metacognitive awareness (Teasdale et al., 2002)	x	x	x
Cognitive distancing (Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979)	x	x	x
Metacognitive mode (Wells, 2000)	x	x	x
Detached mindfulness (Wells, 2005)	x	x	x
Reperceiving (Shapiro, Carlson, Astin, & Freedman, 2006)	x	x
Mindfulness (Bishop et al., 2004)	x
Cognitive defusion (Hayes, Strosahl, & Wilson, 1999)			x
Self-as-context (Hayes et al., 2012)		x
Self-distanced perspective (Kross, Ayduk, & Mischel, 2005)		x

Note: An “x” denotes that the decentering-related construct involves the particular metacognitive process from the proposed model.