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Spanish Adaptation of the Experiential Approach Scale (EAS)
Psychological inflexibility is a transdiagnostic dimension associated to psychological distress and poor mental health and quality of life. While multiple instruments have been developed for the assessment of patterns of inflexible responding to aversive private events (e.g., unwanted cognitions and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8702144/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34948482 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182412873 |
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author | Reyes-Martín, Salvador Hernández-López, Mónica Rodríguez-Valverde, Miguel |
author_facet | Reyes-Martín, Salvador Hernández-López, Mónica Rodríguez-Valverde, Miguel |
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description | Psychological inflexibility is a transdiagnostic dimension associated to psychological distress and poor mental health and quality of life. While multiple instruments have been developed for the assessment of patterns of inflexible responding to aversive private events (e.g., unwanted cognitions and emotions), the Experiential Approach Scale (EAS) is the first instrument specifically designed to assess inflexible responding to appetitive private events (e.g., desired affective states). In this study, we explored the factor structure, internal consistency, and convergent validity of a Spanish adaptation of the EAS with a convenience sample of college students from Spain (n = 206; 79% female). A two-factor solution demonstrated very good fit to the data and was similar to the original two-subscale EAS structure: Anxious Clinging and Experience Prolonging. The scale showed adequate overall (α = 0.85) and subscale (αs: 0.90 and 0.89) internal consistency. Unlike the original instrument, both subscales were uncorrelated. Anxious Clinging correlated positively with experiential avoidance and with measures of negative affect and psychopathology, and negatively with positive affect, subjective happiness, and life satisfaction. In turn, Experience Prolonging correlated negatively with psychopathology and positively with positive affect, subjective happiness, and life satisfaction. Our results point to Anxious Clinging as the only EAS subscale contributing to psychological inflexibility. |
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spelling | pubmed-87021442021-12-24 Spanish Adaptation of the Experiential Approach Scale (EAS) Reyes-Martín, Salvador Hernández-López, Mónica Rodríguez-Valverde, Miguel Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Psychological inflexibility is a transdiagnostic dimension associated to psychological distress and poor mental health and quality of life. While multiple instruments have been developed for the assessment of patterns of inflexible responding to aversive private events (e.g., unwanted cognitions and emotions), the Experiential Approach Scale (EAS) is the first instrument specifically designed to assess inflexible responding to appetitive private events (e.g., desired affective states). In this study, we explored the factor structure, internal consistency, and convergent validity of a Spanish adaptation of the EAS with a convenience sample of college students from Spain (n = 206; 79% female). A two-factor solution demonstrated very good fit to the data and was similar to the original two-subscale EAS structure: Anxious Clinging and Experience Prolonging. The scale showed adequate overall (α = 0.85) and subscale (αs: 0.90 and 0.89) internal consistency. Unlike the original instrument, both subscales were uncorrelated. Anxious Clinging correlated positively with experiential avoidance and with measures of negative affect and psychopathology, and negatively with positive affect, subjective happiness, and life satisfaction. In turn, Experience Prolonging correlated negatively with psychopathology and positively with positive affect, subjective happiness, and life satisfaction. Our results point to Anxious Clinging as the only EAS subscale contributing to psychological inflexibility. MDPI 2021-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8702144/ /pubmed/34948482 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182412873 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Reyes-Martín, Salvador Hernández-López, Mónica Rodríguez-Valverde, Miguel Spanish Adaptation of the Experiential Approach Scale (EAS) |
title | Spanish Adaptation of the Experiential Approach Scale (EAS) |
title_full | Spanish Adaptation of the Experiential Approach Scale (EAS) |
title_fullStr | Spanish Adaptation of the Experiential Approach Scale (EAS) |
title_full_unstemmed | Spanish Adaptation of the Experiential Approach Scale (EAS) |
title_short | Spanish Adaptation of the Experiential Approach Scale (EAS) |
title_sort | spanish adaptation of the experiential approach scale (eas) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8702144/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34948482 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182412873 |
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