Suppressing spiritual struggles: The role of experiential avoidance in mental health
| Autor: | Carmen K. Oemig Dworsky, Kenneth I. Pargament, Julie J. Exline, Serena Wong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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050103 clinical psychology
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Health (social science) 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Mental health Behavioral Neuroscience Experiential avoidance medicine Anxiety 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences medicine.symptom Association (psychology) Psychology Applied Psychology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science. 5:258-265 |
| ISSN: | 2212-1447 |
| Popis: | We examined the relation between experiential avoidance and mental health in a sample of 307 American adults reporting spiritual struggles. Experiential avoidance was consistently related to poorer mental health. Specifically, both general and spiritual struggle-specific avoidance were correlated with higher levels of depression, anxiety, somatic symptoms, and emotion regulation difficulties. Moreover, experiential avoidance tended to exacerbate the relation between spiritual struggles and adverse symptoms. The association between struggles and poorer mental health was stronger in people with higher levels of experiential avoidance. These findings were particularly robust for the measure of struggle-specific experiential avoidance. Finally, we discuss the importance of attending to the spiritual domain in experiential avoidance and outline future directions for clinical research and practice. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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