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Psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain: A longitudinal study
Spain, one of the European countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, underwent a strict lockdown between March and May 2020. This study examines longitudinally the evolution of both psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms in a sample of college students from the beginning and...
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Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7834284/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33520642 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2020.12.002 |
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author | Hernández-López, Mónica Cepeda-Benito, Antonio Díaz-Pavón, Pilar Rodríguez-Valverde, Miguel |
author_facet | Hernández-López, Mónica Cepeda-Benito, Antonio Díaz-Pavón, Pilar Rodríguez-Valverde, Miguel |
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description | Spain, one of the European countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, underwent a strict lockdown between March and May 2020. This study examines longitudinally the evolution of both psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms in a sample of college students from the beginning and throughout the end of the mandated lockdown period. We present the results from 197 participants who responded to an online survey at least at two of three data-collection waves scheduled at the beginning (N = 226), halfway (N = 172), and end (N = 188) of the lockdown. The analyses revealed that psychological inflexibility and symptomatology increased over time, and that inflexibility at the beginning of the lockdown indirectly predicted self-reported symptoms at the end of the lockdown via autoregressive parallel paths that also connected cross-sectionally to reveal that changes in inflexibility were predictive of changes in mental health. These results present a dynamic and robust relationship between psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms throughout a relatively long and presumably stressful period of time. |
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spelling | pubmed-78342842021-01-26 Psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain: A longitudinal study Hernández-López, Mónica Cepeda-Benito, Antonio Díaz-Pavón, Pilar Rodríguez-Valverde, Miguel J Contextual Behav Sci Original Article Spain, one of the European countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, underwent a strict lockdown between March and May 2020. This study examines longitudinally the evolution of both psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms in a sample of college students from the beginning and throughout the end of the mandated lockdown period. We present the results from 197 participants who responded to an online survey at least at two of three data-collection waves scheduled at the beginning (N = 226), halfway (N = 172), and end (N = 188) of the lockdown. The analyses revealed that psychological inflexibility and symptomatology increased over time, and that inflexibility at the beginning of the lockdown indirectly predicted self-reported symptoms at the end of the lockdown via autoregressive parallel paths that also connected cross-sectionally to reveal that changes in inflexibility were predictive of changes in mental health. These results present a dynamic and robust relationship between psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms throughout a relatively long and presumably stressful period of time. Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-01 2020-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7834284/ /pubmed/33520642 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2020.12.002 Text en © 2020 Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Hernández-López, Mónica Cepeda-Benito, Antonio Díaz-Pavón, Pilar Rodríguez-Valverde, Miguel Psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain: A longitudinal study |
title | Psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain: A longitudinal study |
title_full | Psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain: A longitudinal study |
title_fullStr | Psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain: A longitudinal study |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain: A longitudinal study |
title_short | Psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain: A longitudinal study |
title_sort | psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms during the covid-19 lockdown in spain: a longitudinal study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7834284/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33520642 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2020.12.002 |
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