Translation and cultural adaptation of the States of Consciousness Questionnaire (SOCQ) and statistical validation of the Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ30) in Brazilian Portuguese
Archives of Clinical Psychiatry (São Paulo) January 1, 2017 Eduardo Ekman Schenberg, Luís Fernando Tófoli, Daniel Rezinovsky et al. 28 citations
A Brazilian Portuguese version of the States of Consciousness Questionnaire (SOCQ) was produced, and the 30-item Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ30) was validated in a sample of 1,504 Portuguese-speaking respondents who completed an online survey. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the same four-factor structure as the original English MEQ30, with factors showing excellent to acceptable reliability: mystical (0.95), positive mood (0.71), transcendence of time/space (0.83), and ineffability (0.81). The availability of these instruments allows systematic cross-cultural research on altered states of consciousness and mystical experiences in the Brazilian Portuguese-speaking population.