Experiential avoidance as a generalized psychological vulnerability: comparisons with coping and emotion regulation strategies.

By T. Kashdan, V. Barrios, J. P. Forsyth, M. Steger. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The Role of Psychological Flexibility in Mental Health Stigma and Psychological Distress for the Stigmatizer (2009, background): “Similarly, psychological flexibility was inversely related to negative psychological outcomes, such as anxiety, among nonclinical college populations (Kashdan et al., 2006).”
A randomized controlled trial of compassion cultivation training: Effects on mindfulness, affect, and emotion regulation (2013, positive): “…been associated with increased stressrelated symptoms, negative emotion, depression, and anxiety, as well as with decreased positive affect and life satisfaction, and increased negative emotion, depression, and anxiety (e.g., Campbell-Sills et al. 2006a, b; Kashdan et al. 2006; Moore et al. 2008).”
Experiential Avoidance and Emotion Regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder (2011, background): “Using experience sampling methodology, EA has also been linked to fewer positive events (such as ‘‘met a daily fitness goal’’ and more negative events, such as ‘‘was excluded or left out by my group of friends’’) in every day life ( Kashdan et al. 2006 ).”
COVID-19: Psychological flexibility, coping, mental health, and wellbeing in the UK during the pandemic (2020, positive): “34) across both community and clinical samples (Hulbert-Williams, Storey & Wilson, 2015; Karekla & Panayiotou, 2011; Kashdan et al., 2006).”
The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II) as a measure of experiential avoidance: Concerns over discriminant validity (2019, background): “For example, in a cross-sectional daily self-report questionnaire study, Kashdan et al. (2006) concluded that experiential avoidance completely mediated the effect of emotion regulation strategies (suppression and reappraisal) on measures of psychological wellbeing.”
Materialism and diminished well-being: Experiential avoidance as a mediating mechanism (2007, methodology): “Our data support models of experiential avoidance as at least one of the toxic processes in emotional disturbances (Eifert & Forsyth, 2005; Kashdan et al., 2006).”
Emotion regulation strategies and psychosocial well-being in adolescence (2016, positive): “…with other self-regulatory strategies (coping strategies especially; see Compas, 2009; Compas, Connor-Smith, Saltzman, Thomsen, & Wadsworth, 2001; Kashdan, Barrios, Forsyth, & Steger, 2006; Zimmer-Gembeck & Skinner, 2011), several definitions of the EmR process, and of its strategies, can be…”