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Title: | Experiential Avoidance as a Common Psychological Process in European Cultures | Authors: | Monestes, Jean-Louis Karekla, Maria JACOBS, Nele Michaelides, Michalis P. Hooper, Nic Kleen, Marco Ruiz, Francisco J. Miselli, Giovanni Presti, Giovambattista Luciano, Carmen Villatte, Matthieu Bond, Frank W. Kishita, Naoko Hayes, Steven C. |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Publisher: | HOGREFE & HUBER PUBLISHERS | Source: | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT, 34(4), p. 247-257 | Abstract: | Experiential avoidance, the tendency to rigidly escape or avoid private psychological experiences, represents one of the most prominent transdiagnostic psychological processes with a known role in a wide variety of psychological disorders and practical contexts. Experiential avoidance is argued to be based on a fundamental verbal/cognitive process: an overextension of verbal problem solving into the world within. Although cultures apparently differ in their patterns of emotional expression, to the extent that experiential avoidance is based on a fundamental verbal/cognitive process, measures of this process should be comparable across countries, with similar relationships to health outcomes regardless of the language community. This research tests this view in European countries. The psychometric properties of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II, a measure of experiential avoidance, are compared across six languages and seven European countries, for a total of 2,170 nonclinical participants. Multiple group analysis showed that the instrument can be considered invariant across the language samples. The questionnaire constitutes a unidimensional instrument with similar relationships to psychopathology, and has good and very similar psychometric properties in each assessed country. Experiential avoidance reveals not just as transdiagnostic, but also as a transcultural process independent of a specific language community. | Notes: | [Monestes, Jean-Louis] Univ Grenoble Alpes, LIP Lab, Montpellier, France. [Monestes, Jean-Louis] Epsylon Lab, Montpellier, France. [Karekla, Maria; Michaelides, Michalis P.] Univ Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. [Jacobs, Nele] Hasselt Univ, Hasselt, Belgium. [Jacobs, Nele] FARESA Evidence Based Psychol Ctr, Hasselt, Belgium. [Hooper, Nic] Univ West England, Bristol, Avon, England. [Kleen, Marco] GGZ Drenthe, Assen, Netherlands. [Ruiz, Francisco J.] Fdn Univ Konrad Lorenz, Bogota, Colombia. [Miselli, Giovanni] Fdn Ist Osped Sospiro, Cremona, Italy. [Presti, Giovambattista] Kore Univ, Enna, Italy. [Luciano, Carmen] Univ Almeria, Almeria, Spain. [Villatte, Matthieu] Evidence Based Practice Inst, Seattle, WA USA. [Bond, Frank W.] Univ London, London, England. [Kishita, Naoko] Univ East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, England. [Hayes, Steven C.] Univ Nevada, Reno, NV 89557 USA. | Keywords: | experiential avoidance; Acceptance and Action Questionnaire; AAQ-II; cross-cultural validation; multiple group analysis;experiential avoidance; Acceptance and Action Questionnaire; AAQ-II; cross-cultural validation; multiple group analysis | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/27668 | ISSN: | 1015-5759 | e-ISSN: | 2151-2426 | DOI: | 10.1027/1015-5759/a000327 | ISI #: | 000443318600005 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2019 |
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