Studies // Cited work
Experiential avoidance as a generalized psychological vulnerability: Comparisons with coping and emotion regulation strategies
Kashdan, T. B., Barrios, V., Forsyth, J. P., & Steger, M. F. (2006). Experiential avoidance as a generalized psychological vulnerability: Comparisons with coping and emotion regulation strategies.
Level D Longitudinal study doi:10.1016/j.brat.2005.10.003
What this study supports
Supports the claim that experiential avoidance was associated with fewer positive and more negative daily experiences and was more predictive of everyday experience than cognitive reappraisal. The analyses are correlational mediation models, so the source is graded D rather than C.
- Who was studied
- Two studies, one with a 21-day daily monitoring period; the abstract does not state the sample sizes.
- Design
- Longitudinal study
- Level of evidence
- Cross-sectional, observational, qualitative work and narrative reviews.
Claims that rest on it
Each claim states what the site asserts, at what strength, and with what caveat.
EmpiricalLevel DConfidence MODERATE
Over 21 days of monitoring, experiential avoidance was associated with fewer positive and more negative daily experiences and was more predictive of everyday experience than cognitive reappraisal.
- Scope
- Daily monitoring in non-clinical participants.
- Caveat
- Correlational mediation analyses in one publication; they do not show that avoidance caused the differences.
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