About the Measure
Domains | Emotional Intelligence (mixed and trait), Social and Emotional Competence |
Key stages | Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 |
Subscales | Certainty about mental states; Uncertainty about mental states |
Description | Reflective functioning refers to our capacity to understand ourselves and others in terms of intentional mental states, such as feelings, desires, wishes, goals and attitudes. |
Example | People’s thoughts are a mystery to me |
Link | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/research/rfq |
Psychometry | |
Implementation |
Implementation details
No. of items | 46 |
Format | Likert |
Respondent | Self |
Scoring | Standardised |
Time | 0 |
Age | 12-18 |
Cost single purchase | Free |
Cost per child | Free |
Psychometric details
UK norms | No |
Cronbach's α | .64-.71 |
Test retest | Not reported |
Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
EFA | Not reported |
CFA | Chi-square(47) = 74.45 n=123 CFI = .96 RMSEA = .07 WRMR= .73 |
Criterion validity | Not reported |
Construct validity | The Reflective Function Questionnaire (RFQ) certainty subscale was positively correlated with mindfulness dimensions (r = .38 for Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills acting with awareness scales (KIMSac); r= .23 for Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills describing subscale (KIMSdes); Negatively associated with two of the alexithymia dimensions (r= -.43 for Toronto Alexithymia Scale identifying feelings (TASif) and r= -.33 for Toronto Alexithymia Scale describing feelings (TASdf). |
Concurrent validity | Not reported |
Predictive validity | Not reported |
Responsiveness | Not reported |
Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
References | Sharp, C., Williams, L., Ha, C., Baumgardner, J., Michonski, J., Seals, R., et al. (2009). The development of a mentalization-based outcomes and research protocol for an adolescent in-patient unit. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 73(4), 311–338. doi:10.1521/bumc.2009.73.4.311 Badoud, D., Luyten, P., Fonseca-Pedrero, E., Eliez, S., Fonagy, P., & Debbané, M. (2015). The French version of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire: Validity data for adolescents and adults and its association with non-suicidal self-injury. PLOS one, 10(12), e0145892. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145892 |