Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ-18)
18-item scale measuring mentalizing capacity: awareness of one's own mental states (Self-RF) and ability to understand others' mental states (Other-RF).
Purpose
Self-report research instrument, reproduced here under an open license for non-diagnostic educational, research, and self-reflection use.
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Administration
Self-Administered
Intended Use
Research
Limitations: Imported from the OpenScales open item-bank project. This build reports a simple mean-agreement score per subscale. The officially validated RFQ scoring (Fonagy et al., 2016) instead applies a non-linear "U-shaped" certainty transformation (RFQ_u / RFQ_c), where both extreme agreement AND extreme disagreement can indicate poor mentalizing on certain items — that transformation is not implemented here. This specific digital implementation has not been independently validated by PsiQ.
License: CC BY 4.0. Citation: Fonagy et al. (2016), PLoS ONE, 11(7): e0158678.
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