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Exploring the Psychometrics of a Committed Action
Measure with an Undergraduate
Sample Chelsea VanderWoude, Katherine Cooper, Chad E. Drake, Ph.D.,
Southern Illinois University
What are values?
What makes a good life?
Several unique factors to this question Ideographic
Constantly changing
Never obtained
Why are values important?
Impact behavior
Roadmap for a meaningful life
Important in a therapy context
A key construct in ACT
Current values based assessments
Personal Values Questionnaire
The Survey of Guiding Principles questionnaire and card sort
VLQ - Valued Living Questionnaire
Values Bull's Eye
Values Compass pictures
VLQ Domains1. Family
2. Intimate relationships
3. Parenting
4. Friends/social life
5. Work
6. Education/training
7. Recreation/fun
8. Spirituality/meaning & purpose in life
9. Citizenship/Community life
10.Physical self-care
VLQ Example
Part 1
1) Family (other than marriage or parenting)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Part 2
1) Family (other than marriage or parenting)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Committed action
Values do not indicate action
We need a tool to measure both values and committed action
What does acting consistently with one’s values mean?
Valued Time and Difficulty Questionnaire (VTDQ)
Tool to assess client’s committed action in relation to their values
Developed for use in clinical contexts
Originally created for veterans
Ten domains derived from the VLQ
Comparing the VTDQ and VLQ
VTDQ 10 domains
Three subscales
Values
Time
Difficulty
0-10 Likert Scale
VLQ 10 domains
Two parts
Values
Living consistently
1-10 Likert Scale
VTDQ Example
1. a. How important is it to you to do things for or with family (parents, siblings, relatives)?
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1. b. In the last week, how much time have you spent doing things for or with family?
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1. c. In the last week, how difficult was it to do things for or with family because of unpleasant thoughts, feelings, memories, or bodily sensations
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Current Study
177 Undergraduates at Southern Illinois University
43.5% Female, 55.9% Male, .6% Other
Average age 19.55
61% endorsed earning less than 50,000 annually
Current Study Continued
Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ)
General Health Questionnaire (GHQ)
Valued Time and Difficulty Questionnaire (VTDQ)
Social Dominance Orientation Scale (SDO)
Descriptives
Mean Std. Deviation Skewness Kurtosis
Statistic Statistic Statistic Std. Error Statistic Std. Error
VTDQimportanceTotal 70.7119 12.92863 -.241 .183 -.076 .363
VTDQtimeTotal 49.6384 12.99319 .415 .183 .151 .363
VTDQdifficultyTotal 17.3955 17.23901 1.134 .183 .709 .363
AAQ: high scores are bad 16.0395 7.49194 .688 .183 -.571 .363
GHQ: high scores are good 36.8192 5.46279 -1.046 .183 1.272 .363
SDO: high scores are bad 34.3021 12.43435 .174 .246 -.990 .488
Valid N (listwise)
Internal Consistency Cronbach’s Alpha
Subscale A (Values): .691
Subscale B (Time): .615
Subscale C (Difficulty): .876
Significant correlations
VTDQ Importance and time subscales .609
GHQ and VTDQ time subscale .240
AAQ and VTDQ difficultly subscale .540
GHQ and VTDQ difficulty subscale -.429
Non-significant correlations
SDO and VTDQ difficulty subscale .113
VTDQ importance and difficulty subscales -.034
VTDQ difficulty and time subscales .089
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VTDQ Subscales
Values
Time
Difficulty
Domains
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Most and Least Common Areas Most endorsed importance domains: education, physical health,
friendship
Least endorsed importance domains: community, religion, intimate relationships
Most endorsed time domains: education, friendship, daily tasks or work
Least endorsed time domains: community, children, religion
Most difficult domains: Intimate relationships, education, daily tasks or work
Least difficult domains: children, community, religion
Future Directions Future values based assessments should also include measures of
committed action
Need to clearly define what it means to live consistently with one’s values
Provide more of an open ended portion for values
Hope values based measures will help clinicians in the future track progress in their clients