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Validation of the Psychological Insight Scale: A new scale to assess psychological insight following a psychedelic experience
INTRODUCTION: As their name suggests, ‘psychedelic’ (mind-revealing) compounds are thought to catalyse processes of psychological insight; however, few satisfactory scales exist to sample this. This study sought to develop a new scale to measure psychological insight after a psychedelic experience:...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8801624/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34983255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02698811211066709 |
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author | Peill, Joseph M Trinci, Katie E Kettner, Hannes Mertens, Lea J Roseman, Leor Timmermann, Christopher Rosas, Fernando E Lyons, Taylor Carhart-Harris, Robin L |
author_facet | Peill, Joseph M Trinci, Katie E Kettner, Hannes Mertens, Lea J Roseman, Leor Timmermann, Christopher Rosas, Fernando E Lyons, Taylor Carhart-Harris, Robin L |
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description | INTRODUCTION: As their name suggests, ‘psychedelic’ (mind-revealing) compounds are thought to catalyse processes of psychological insight; however, few satisfactory scales exist to sample this. This study sought to develop a new scale to measure psychological insight after a psychedelic experience: the Psychological Insight Scale (PIS). METHODS: The PIS is a six- to seven-item questionnaire that enquires about psychological insight after a psychedelic experience (PIS-6) and accompanied behavioural changes (PIS item 7). In total, 886 participants took part in a study in which the PIS and other questionnaires were completed in a prospective fashion in relation to a planned psychedelic experience. For validation purposes, data from 279 participants were analysed from a non-specific ‘global psychedelic survey’ study. RESULTS: Principal components analysis of PIS scores revealed a principal component explaining 73.57% of the variance, which displayed high internal consistency at multiple timepoints throughout the study (average Cronbach’s α = 0.94). Criterion validity was confirmed using the global psychedelic survey study, and convergent validity was confirmed via the Therapeutic-Realizations Scale. Furthermore, PIS scores significantly mediated the relationship between emotional breakthrough and long-term well-being. CONCLUSION: The PIS is complementary to current subjective measures used in psychedelic studies, most of which are completed in relation to the acute experience. Insight – as measured by the PIS – was found to be a key mediator of long-term psychological outcomes following a psychedelic experience. Future research may investigate how insight varies throughout a psychedelic process, its underlying neurobiology and how it impacts behaviour and mental health. |
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spelling | pubmed-88016242022-02-01 Validation of the Psychological Insight Scale: A new scale to assess psychological insight following a psychedelic experience Peill, Joseph M Trinci, Katie E Kettner, Hannes Mertens, Lea J Roseman, Leor Timmermann, Christopher Rosas, Fernando E Lyons, Taylor Carhart-Harris, Robin L J Psychopharmacol Original Papers INTRODUCTION: As their name suggests, ‘psychedelic’ (mind-revealing) compounds are thought to catalyse processes of psychological insight; however, few satisfactory scales exist to sample this. This study sought to develop a new scale to measure psychological insight after a psychedelic experience: the Psychological Insight Scale (PIS). METHODS: The PIS is a six- to seven-item questionnaire that enquires about psychological insight after a psychedelic experience (PIS-6) and accompanied behavioural changes (PIS item 7). In total, 886 participants took part in a study in which the PIS and other questionnaires were completed in a prospective fashion in relation to a planned psychedelic experience. For validation purposes, data from 279 participants were analysed from a non-specific ‘global psychedelic survey’ study. RESULTS: Principal components analysis of PIS scores revealed a principal component explaining 73.57% of the variance, which displayed high internal consistency at multiple timepoints throughout the study (average Cronbach’s α = 0.94). Criterion validity was confirmed using the global psychedelic survey study, and convergent validity was confirmed via the Therapeutic-Realizations Scale. Furthermore, PIS scores significantly mediated the relationship between emotional breakthrough and long-term well-being. CONCLUSION: The PIS is complementary to current subjective measures used in psychedelic studies, most of which are completed in relation to the acute experience. Insight – as measured by the PIS – was found to be a key mediator of long-term psychological outcomes following a psychedelic experience. Future research may investigate how insight varies throughout a psychedelic process, its underlying neurobiology and how it impacts behaviour and mental health. SAGE Publications 2022-01-05 2022-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8801624/ /pubmed/34983255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02698811211066709 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Papers Peill, Joseph M Trinci, Katie E Kettner, Hannes Mertens, Lea J Roseman, Leor Timmermann, Christopher Rosas, Fernando E Lyons, Taylor Carhart-Harris, Robin L Validation of the Psychological Insight Scale: A new scale to assess psychological insight following a psychedelic experience |
title | Validation of the Psychological Insight Scale: A new scale to assess psychological insight following a psychedelic experience |
title_full | Validation of the Psychological Insight Scale: A new scale to assess psychological insight following a psychedelic experience |
title_fullStr | Validation of the Psychological Insight Scale: A new scale to assess psychological insight following a psychedelic experience |
title_full_unstemmed | Validation of the Psychological Insight Scale: A new scale to assess psychological insight following a psychedelic experience |
title_short | Validation of the Psychological Insight Scale: A new scale to assess psychological insight following a psychedelic experience |
title_sort | validation of the psychological insight scale: a new scale to assess psychological insight following a psychedelic experience |
topic | Original Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8801624/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34983255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02698811211066709 |
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