Experiential avoidance as a functional dimensional approach to psychopathology
An empirical review
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23387201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neharika Chawla (University of Washington, corresponding author), Brian Ostafin, Brian D Ostafin (0000-0001-9739-2757, Dakota State University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 871-890 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Clinical Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9762 • E-ISSN: 1097-4679 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/jclp.20400 |
| PMID | 17674402 |
| OpenAlex | W2067271431 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 162 |
| References cited | 56 |
The construct of experiential avoidance has become more frequently used by clinical researchers. Experiential avoidance involves the unwillingness to remain in contact with private experiences such as painful thoughts and emotions and is often proposed to be critical to the development and maintenance of psychopathology. This review summarizes the empirical studies on experiential avoidance as a factor in the etiology of maladaptive behavior and its relationship to specific diagnostic categories. Although some of the current literature suggests that experiential avoidance may be implicated in various forms of psychopathology, a fundamental limitation of this research is the lack of theoretical integration and refinement with regard to operationalizing and assessing experiential avoidance. Future studies should attempt to understand the core processes involved in experiential avoidance better, and then clearly operationalize the construct and determine its incremental validity relative to other constructs. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 63: 871–890, 2007.
Anxiety · Cognitive psychology · Construct (python library) · Empirical research · Epistemology · Experiential avoidance · Experiential learning · Operationalization · Psychiatry · Psychopathology · Psychotherapist · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Psychology
Value-guided action
Experiential avoidance and male dating violence perpetration
Psychological flexibility in the context of Covid-19 adversity
The role of experiential avoidance in the relationship between family conflict and depression among early adolescents
Confirmatory factor analysis of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire for Weight-Related Difficulties-Revised (Aaqw-R) in a United States sample of adults with overweight and obesity
Validation of the Hungarian version of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II)
The relative importance of rumination, experiential avoidance and mindfulness as predictors of depressive symptoms
Posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity modulates avoidance of positive emotions among trauma-exposed military veterans in the community
Resilience during war
Acute and post-dosing effects of single-dose psilocybin for obsessive-compulsive disorder in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Theoretical Basis for a Group Intervention Aimed at Preventing High School Dropout
Online Sexual Activity Scale (Osas)
A contextual approach to experiential avoidance and social anxiety
Multivariate associations of ideal affect with clinical symptoms
Riding the tide of emotions with mindfulness
Psychological Flexibility and Depression in New Mothers of Medically Vulnerable Infants
The Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire
Development of a measure of experiential avoidance
Adjusting to death
A digital Skinner box
The role of experiential avoidance in the relation between racial discrimination and negative mental health outcomes
What Does the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II) Really Measure?
Experiential Avoidance
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science
Defining and measuring “psychological flexibility”
Mindfulness and Behavior Change
Psychological flexibility
The relationship between emotion regulation and well-being in patients with mental disorders
Trial of Psilocybin versus Escitalopram for Depression
Preliminary Psychometric Properties of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire–II
Burnout and depression in medical students
Process-based functional analysis can help behavioral science step up to novel challenges
A preliminary investigation of the role of psychological inflexibility in academic procrastination
Meaning in life buffers the impact of experiential avoidance on anxiety
Examining psychological inflexibility as a mediator of postpartum depressive symptoms
Latent structure, measurement invariance, and further validation of an Arabic version of the brief experiential avoidance questionnaire
Pilot of an acceptance and commitment therapy and schema group intervention for mental health carer's interpersonal problems
Low standards yet disappointed
Psychological flexibility and ostracism
How Anti-Substance Abuse Campaigns Influence Substance Abusers’ Psychological Health in Chinese Communities
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Longitudinal Relationship Between Mindful Awareness, Acceptance and Mental Health Problems
Feasibility and effect of a self-help online acceptance and commitment therapy program focused on repetitive negative thinking for Colombian young women
Values, acceptance, and belongingess in graduate school
Dispositional coping in individuals with anxiety disorder symptomatology
Predicting Effects of Psychological Inflexibility/Experiential Avoidance and Stress Coping Strategies for Internet Addiction, Significant Depression, and Suicidality in College Students
Body image avoidance
The role of experiential avoidance in the relation between anxiety disorder diagnoses and future physical health symptoms in a community sample of young adult women
Learning to Let Go
Estimating the effect of basic behavioral processes (access to reinforcers and experiential avoidance) on emotional disorders as transdiagnostic variables
Psychometric properties of the chinese version of multidimensional experiential avoidance questionnaire-30
Incremental validity of the AAQ-II for anxiety disorder symptomology
Parental marital conflict and adolescent BrainRot behavior
Embracing complex models
Do attachment anxiety and hostility mediate the relationship between experiential avoidance and interpersonal problems in mental health carers
Obsessive beliefs, experiential avoidance, and cognitive fusion as predictors of obsessive-compulsive disorder symptom dimensions
How much is enough in brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy? A randomized trial
Validation of the english and french versions of the multidimensional psychological flexibility inventory short form (MPFI-24)
Contextual Positive Psychology
Experiential avoidance in depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive related, and posttraumatic stress disorders
Psychometric investigation of the avoidance and inflexibility scale (AIS) for cocaine use
Covid-19
Validation of the Swedish Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (Saaq) for parents of children with cancer
Functional Coping Dynamics and Experiential Avoidance in a Community Sample with No Self-Injury vs. Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Only vs. Those with Both Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Suicidal Behaviour
Gender Differences in Problematic Alcohol Consumption in University Professors
Assessing psychological inflexibility in infertility
The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II) as a measure of experiential avoidance
Triangling in Family of Origin, Internet Addiction, and Social Media Addiction
Diagnosis acceptance, masking, and perceived benefits and challenges in adults with ADHD and ASD
Acceptance- and mindfulness-based interventions for health behavior change
Roads less travelled to self-forgiveness
A Psychometric Indices of the Farsi Version of the Believability of Anxious Feelings and Thoughts Questionnaire (Baft)
A pilot study of processes of change in group-based acceptance and commitment therapy for health anxiety
Early life environmental unpredictability shapes non-suicidal self-injury
The role of thought suppression and psychological inflexibility in older family caregivers’ psychological symptoms and quality of life
Community sample evidence on the relations among behavioural inhibition system, anxiety sensitivity, experiential avoidance, and social anxiety in adolescents
The interactive effect of cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance on anxiety, depression, stress and posttraumatic stress symptoms
The development and validation of the experiential avoidance rating scale (Ears)
Experiential avoidance and fear of intimacy
Behavioral, not self-reported, experiential avoidance predicts early treatment discontinuation at residential substance use treatment
A multicultural examination of experiential avoidance
Experiential avoidance and depression predict values engagement among people in treatment for borderline personality disorder
Assessing psychological flexibility and mental health in adults
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Promote Value Attainment Among Individuals with overweight
Evaluation of a web-based acceptance and commitment therapy program for women with trauma-related problems
Validation and invariance testing of the Greek adaptation of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire -II across clinical vs. nonclinical samples and sexes
A Bridge of Distress
Associations between post-traumatic stress symptoms and quality of life among psychiatric healthcare personnel in China during the Covid-19 pandemic
Evaluations of self-referential thoughts and their association with components of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Avoiding the unwanted
No sound is more distracting than the one you're trying not to hear
Self-Compassion in PLWH
Treatment sensitivity
Assessing psychological flexibility
Cognitive Fusion Mediates the Relationship between Dispositional Mindfulness and Negative Affects
An online contextual schema therapy workshop for social anxiety symptoms – A randomized controlled trial
Effectiveness of Positive Psychology and Meditation Interventions on Nurses’ Wellbeing and Patient Care
Effect of a group‐based acceptance and commitment therapy intervention on cognitive emotion regulation and psychological flexibility in patients with bipolar disorder
The Paradox of Acceptance
Existential distress and social alienation in adolescents with allergic rhinitis
Emotion And Adaptation
Measuring experiential avoidance
Solving the puzzle of deliberate self-harm
Long-term correlates of child sexual abuse
Experiential avoidance as a generalized psychological vulnerability
How does cognitive therapy prevent depressive relapse and why should attentional control (mindfulness) training help?
Addiction Motivation Reformulated
Prevalence and characteristics of noncompliant behaviour and its risk factors in kidney transplant recipients
Experiential avoidance and behavioral disorders
The Association of Coping to Physical and Psychological Health Outcomes
Thought Suppression
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Using Self-Report Assessment Methods to Explore Facets of Mindfulness
Multidimensional Assessment of Emotion Regulation and Dysregulation
Telling more than we can know
Chronic Thought Suppression
Impact of child sexual abuse
Paradoxical effects of thought suppression
Ego depletion
Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes
Emotional suppression
Origins of Ruminative Thought
Emotional expression in cancer onset and progression
Beyond attentional strategies
| Unique citing works | 162 |
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| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 143 |