Measuring Decentering and Related Constructs: Capacity and Limitations of Extant Assessment Scales

Mindfulness

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1674-1688

  Hadash, Yuval ^a   Lichtash, Yael ^a   Bernstein, Amit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

(Dis)identification; (Non)reactivity; Cognitive (de)fusion; Decentering; Meta awareness; Mindfulness

Indexed keywords

EID: 85035096130     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-017-0743-9     Document Type: Article

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