Flexibility subscales

Mindful Attentive Awareness

1.Strove to be attentive and aware of my emotions

2.Was in touch with the ebb and flow of my thoughts and feelings

3.Tried to stay in tune with my thoughts and feelings from moment to moment

4.Paid dose attention to what I was thinking and feeling

5.Stove to remain mindful and aware of my own thoughts and emotions

Mindful Attentive Awareness →Flexibility composite

Acceptance

6.I tried to make peace with my negative thoughts and feelings rather than resisting them

7.I was receptive to observing unpleasant thoughts and feelings without interfering with them

8.I opened myself to all of my feelings,the good and the bad

9.I made room to fully experience negative thoughts and emotions,breathing therm in rather than pushing them away

10.When I had an upsetting thought or emotion,I tried to give it space rather than ignoring it

Acceptance →Flexibility composite

Defusion

11.I was able to let negative feelings come and go without getting caught up in them

12.When I was upset,I was able to let those negative feelings pass through me with out clinging to them

13.When I was scared or afraid,I was able to gently experience these feelings,allowing them to pass

14.In tough situations,I was able to notice my thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them

15.I was able to step back and notice negative thoughts and feelings without reacting to them

Defusion →Flexibility composite

Self as Context

16.Even when I felt hurt or upset,I tried to maintain a broader perspective

17.I carried myself through tough moments by seeing my life from a larger viewpoint

18.When I was scared or afraid,I still tried to see the larger picture

19.When something painful happened,I tried to take a talanced view of the situation

20.I tried to keep perspective even when life knocked me down

Self as Context →Flexibility composite

Committed Action

21.Even when times got tough,I was still able to take steps toward what I value in life

22.Even when I stumbled in my efforts,I didn't quit working toward what is important

23.Even when life got stressful and hectic,I still worked toward things that were important to me

24.I didn't let set backs slow me down in taking action toward what I really want in life

25.I didn't let my own fears and doubts get in the way of taking action toward my goals

Committed Action →Flexibility composite

Contact with Values

26.I was very in touch with what is important to me and my life

27.I stuck to my deeper priorities in life

28.I tried to connect with what is truly important to me on a daily basis

29.My deeper values consistently gave direction to my life

30.Even when it meant making tough choices,I still tried to prioritize the things that were important to me

Inflexibility subscales

Inattentive and Unaware

1.I did most things mindlessly without paying much attention

2.I did most things on automatic with little awareness of what I was doing

3.Most of the time I was just going through the motions without paying much attenticn

4.I fluated through most days without paying much attention

5.I went through most days on auto-pilot without paying much attention to what I was thinking or feeling

Inattentive Unaware →Inflexibility compasite

Experiential Avoidance

6.I tried to distract myself when I felt unpleasant emotions

7.When I had a bad memory,I tried to distract myself to make it go away

8.When something upsetting came up,I tried very hard to stop thinking about it

9.If there was something I didn't want to think about,I would try many things to get it out of my mind

10.When unpleasant memaries came to me,I tried to put them out of my mind

Experiential Avoidance →Inflexibility composite

Fuslon

11.Negative thoughts and feelings tended to stick with me for a long time

12.Distressing thoughts tended to spin around in my mind like a broken record

13.It was very easy to get trapped into unwanted thoughts and feelings

14.When I had negative thoughts or feelings it was very hard to see past them

15.When something bad happened it was hard for me to stop thinking about it

Fusion→Inflexibility composite

Self as Content

16.I thought some of my emotions were bad or inappropriate and I shouldn't feel them

17.I criticized myself for having irrational or inappropriate emotions

18.I believed some of my thoughts are abnortmal or bad and I shouldn’t think that way

19.1 told myself that I shouldn't be feeling the way I'm feeling

20.1 told myself I shouldn't be thinking the way I was thinking

Self as Content →Inflexibility composite

Inaction

21.Negative feelings easily stalled out my plans22.Negative feelings often trapped me in inaction23.Getting upset left me stuck and inactive

24.Unpleasant thoughts and feelings easily overwhelmed my efforts to deepen my life25.Negative experiences derailed me from what

Inaction →Inflexibility composite

Losing Touch with Values

26.When life got hectic,I often lost touch with the things I value

27.My priorities and values often fell by the wayside in my day to day life

28.The things that I value the most often fell off my priority list completely

29.When times got tough,it was easy to forget about what I truly value

30.I didn’t usually have time to focus an the things that are really important to me