Psychological Inflexibility as it Relates to Stress, Worry, Generalized Anxiety, and Somatization in an Ethnically Diverse Sample of College Students

ConclusionAn individual's attempt to control and minimize experiencing unwanted feelings, thoughts, or events is an important factor to consider in understanding college students’ anxious symptomatology. Teaching psychological flexibility techniques through interventions such as acceptance and commitment therapy may help students to better respond to psychologically distressing situations. Intervention research among diverse ethnic groups is needed to further confirm and expand these findings.
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research