{{Anchor|Daftar faktor mental}}Dalam Buddhisme, terdapat banyak sistem Abhidharma (umumnya disebut psikologi BuddhaBuddhis) yang berbeda-beda sesuai pendirian doktrinal [[Aliran Buddhisme|alirannya]], dan setiap sistem memiliki daftar cetasika yang paling pentingnya masing-masing.{{refn|{{harvnb|Berzin|2006}} menyatakan: "There are many different systems of abhidharma (chos-mngon-pa, topics of knowledge), each with its individual count and list of subsidiary awarenesses. Often, the definitions of the awarenesses they assert in common differ as well."|group=lower-alpha}}{{refn|{{harvnb|Bodhi|2012}}: "A second distinguishing feature of the Abhidhamma is the dissection of the apparently continuous stream of consciousness into a succession of discrete evanescent cognitive events called cittas, each a complex unity involving consciousness itself, as the basic awareness of an object, and a constellation of mental factors (cetasika) exercising more specialized tasks in the act of cognition. Such a view of consciousness, at least in outline, can readily be derived from the Sutta Pitaka's analysis of experience into the five aggregates, among which the four mental aggregates are always inseparably conjoined, but the conception remains there merely suggestive. In the Abhidhamma Pitaka the suggestion is not simply picked up, but is expanded into an extraordinarily detailed and coherent picture of the functioning of consciousness both in its microscopic immediacy and in its extended continuity from life to life."|group=lower-alpha}} Daftar ini bervariasi dari satu sistem ke sistem lainnya, baik dalam jumlah cetasika yang tercantum maupun dalam definisi yang diberikan untuk setiap cetasika. Daftar ini tidak dianggap lengkap; melainkan menyajikan kategori dan cetasika penting yang berguna untuk dipelajari guna memahami cara kerja batin.{{refn|Daftar faktor mental tidak dianggap lengkap. Misalnya: * The Dalai Lama menyatakan: "Whether the system includes fifty-one mental factors or more or less, none of those sets is meant to be all-inclusive, as though nothing is left out. They are only suggestive, indicative of some things that are important."{{sfn|Goleman|2008|loc=Kindle Locations 3628–3631}}
* {{harvnb|Berzin|2006}}: "These lists of subsidiary awarenesses are not exhaustive. There are many more than just fifty-one. Many good qualities (yon-tan) cultivated on the Buddhist path are not listed separately – for example, generosity (sbyin-pa), ethical discipline (tshul-khrims), patience (bzod-pa), love (byams-pa), and compassion (snying-rje). According to the Gelug presentation, the five types of deep awareness (ye-shes) – mirror-like, equalizing, individualizing, accomplishing, and sphere of reality (Skt. dharmadhatu) – are also subsidiary awarenesses. The various lists are just of certain significant categories of subsidiary awarenesses."|group=lower-alpha}}