Table 5.
Standardized factor loadings for the bifactor exploratory structural equation modeling solution of the Metacognitive Processes of Decentering Scale - Trait
| Global Factor | Specific Factors | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item | Decentering | Meta Awareness | (Dis)Identif ication with Internal Experience | (Non)Reactivity to Internal Experience | |
| λ (SE) | λ (SE) | λ (SE) | λ (SE) | ||
| EQ-DΔ | I am able to watch myself thinking. | 40*** (.08) | .67*** (.06) | ||
| O.I. | I can watch my thoughts and emotions come and go like clouds. | 60*** (.06) | .43*** (.08) | ||
| SACS Δ | I am able to step back and watch my mind work. | 50*** (.07) | .69*** (.05) | ||
| O.I. | I am able to watch my thoughts and feelings like someone watching a movie. | 68*** (.06) | .44*** (.09) | ||
| O.I. | I can watch my thoughts and emotions drift by like leaves on a stream. | 79*** (.07) | .33** (.11) | ||
| EQ-DΔ | My thoughts and emotions are part of me, but they are not me. | 36*** (.06) | .29*** (.07) | ||
| EQ-DΔ | I am more than my thoughts and feelings. | 40*** (.06) | .56*** (.06) | ||
| TMS-D | I am separate from my changing thoughts and feelings. | 55*** (.05) | .31*** (.06) | ||
| EQ-DΔ | My sense of self is larger than my thoughts and feelings. | 50*** (.06) | .56*** (.06) | ||
| TMS-D | My sense of self is separate from my changing thoughts and feelings. | 60*** (.05) | .52*** (.06) | ||
| FFMQ-NRΔ | I can be aware of unpleasant thoughts or feelings without immediately reacting to them. | 43*** (.06) | .50*** (.06) | ||
| FFMQ-NRΔ | When I have distressing thoughts or feelings I am able to notice them without reacting. | 49*** (.07) | .61*** (.07) | ||
| FFMQ-NRΔ | When I have distressing thoughts or emotions, I just notice them and let them go. | 61*** (.06) | .38*** (.09) | ||
| SACS Δ | I can observe unpleasant thoughts and feelings without trying to change them. | 54*** (.06) | .24*** (.08) | ||
| FFMQ-NR Δ | I can step back and be aware of distressing thoughts and emotions without being taken over by them. | .66*** (.06) | .36*** (.08) | ||
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p<.01
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p<.001
Note. To increase table clarity, cross-loadings < .20 are not displayed (cf. Jennrich & Bentler, 2012; Myers et al., 2014; Stenling et al., 2015).
EQ-D = Experiences Questionnaire’s Decentering subscale; SACS = Self-as-Context Scale; TMS-D = Toronto Mindfulness Scale’s Decentering subscale; FFMQ-NR = Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire’s Non-reacting subscale; O.I. = Original Item.
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= Item wording modified