Valuing Questionnaire

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What is VQ

The Valuing Questionnaire (VQ) is a 10-item scale measure of valued living. It measures two related constructs - ""Progress"" and ""Obstruction"". ""Progress"" reflects enactment of values, including clear awareness of what is personally important and perseverance. ""Obstruction"" reflects the disruption of valued living due to avoidance of unwanted experience and distraction from values by inattention to values or attention to other psychological experiences. The Valuing Questionnaire was designed to assess the extent of personal values enactment during the past-week for use in clinical and research evaluations of ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) interventions.

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VQ Scoring and Interpretation

The VQ is a 10-item scale. Participants are instructed to rate how true each item had been of them in the past week on a scale from 0 (not at all) to 6 (completely true).

The VQ has a two-factor structure, each 5-item scale.

The VQ has a two-factor structure, each 5-item scale.
Progress Score - Add the scores on items 1, 2, 6, 8, 10. Scores can range from 0 – 30.

Reference values for the VQ

Table 4
	University sample	University sample	Clinical sample	Clinical sample
Scale	M	SD	M	SD
Progress	17.2	6.44	12.8	6.91
Obstruction	12.1	6.88	18.9	6.49

High VQ Progress scores were associated with positive affect, Satisfaction With Life, Purpose In Life, Mastery and Self- Acceptance, and high VQ Obstruction scores were associated with depressive symptoms and negative affect.

PsyPack can automatically score the VQ assessment and prepare corresponding tables and graphs.

Further, PsyPack automatically plots a graph to help you easily track progress over time.

Sample Report of VQ

Domain

Valued Living, Subjective well-being

What does VQ measure

The purpose of the evaluation is to:

measure valued living, and
measure two related constructs - "Progress" and "Obstruction",
evaluate modifications to Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) protocols, and
compare the efficacy of ACT with non-ACT interventions.

Administration

Self-administered

Type of outcome tool

Positive psychology

Assessment modes

Questionnaire

Age and eligibility

Adults

Estimated time

Less than 5 minutes

Notes

As is true of any self-report instrument, respondents can consciously distort their response to the scale if they are motivated to do so.

A largely distinct emphasis of Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) is that increased psychological flexibility, including enactment of personal values, rather than symptom reduction, is the treatment outcome of greatest priority. Within ACT, values are defined as “freely chosen, verbally constructed consequences of ongoing, dynamic, evolving patterns of activity, which establish predominant reinforcers for that activity that are intrinsic in engagement in the valued behavioural pattern itself”.

"Progress" reflects enactment of values, including clear awareness of what is personally important and perseverance.
"Obstruction" reflects the disruption of valued living due to avoidance of unwanted experience and distraction from values by inattention to values or attention to other psychological experiences.

The VQ should provide researchers and clinicians with a convenient measure for tracking progress through therapy and evaluating treatment packages should its sensitivity to change be established.

Attribution and References

Smout, M., et al. Development of the Valuing Questionnaire (VQ). Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2014.06.001

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