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  • The development of the Negative Mental Imagery Questionnaire (MIQ-N)

  • Florentina Ecaterina Oaie, Joanne L. Bower, Craig Steel
  • Journal:
    Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy / Volume 53 / Issue 1 / March 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    18 October 2024, pp. 17-29
    Print publication:
    March 2025
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  • Background:

    Mental imagery plays a key role in the onset and maintenance of psychological disorders, and has become the target of psychological interventions for the treatment of several anxiety-related conditions. However, there are currently no transdiagnostic measures designed to assess the varied dimensions of mental imagery relevant to psychopathology.

    Aim:

    To develop and validate a new measure assessing the experiences and appraisals of negative mental imagery.

    Method:

    The initial item pool was generated through a comprehensive literature review and interviews with subject-matter experts. An online community sample provided data for the exploratory (n=345) and confirmatory (n=325) factor analyses.

    Results:

    The new 16-item Negative Mental Imagery Questionnaire demonstrated four subscales (Intrusiveness, Controllability, Beliefs about Mental Imagery, and Realness). Reliability and validity were good to excellent for both the full- and sub-scales.

    Conclusions:

    Appraisals of mental imagery captured by the new measure are consistent with previous research on mental imagery and psychopathology.