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Understanding Meaning and Racial Prejudice: Examining Self-Transcendence and Psychological Inflexibility in a Sample of White College Students
Publication date: Available online 16 November 2018Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral ScienceAuthor(s): Ivonne Andrea Florez, Stefan E. Schulenberg, Elicia C. Lair, Kelly G. Wilson, Kirk JohnsonAbstractRecent research suggests that meaning in life relates to processes of social judgments and could potentially facilitate relationships between racially diverse individuals. At this time however, there is no published study that examines factors that influence the relationship between meaning, racial prejudice, and values. To fill this gap, the present study examined whether (1) self-transcendence and (2) experiencing ob...
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - November 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

An Examination of Sex-specific Publication Trends within the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science between 2012 and 2017
Publication date: Available online 14 November 2018Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral ScienceAuthor(s): Lynn Farrell, Fiona Corcoran, Emily Sandoz, Louise McHughAbstractAn analysis of publication trends related to author sex was conducted on all articles published within the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science (JCBS) between 2012 and 2017. This was in response to calls within the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) for an examination of its commitment to and progress in advancing inclusion and diversity. Results indicated that there was near parity in the overall numbers of male and female autho...
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - November 15, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Turning Self-Compassionate Engagement into Action: Impact on Body Appreciation among Portuguese Women
Publication date: Available online 13 November 2018Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral ScienceAuthor(s): Joana Marta-Simões, Cláudia FerreiraAbstractBody appreciation, a facet of positive body image with important implications for women's wellbeing and mental health, has been reported to associate with important emotion regulation mechanisms such as self-compassion and psychological flexibility. Using a sample of adult women from the Portuguese general population (N=288), the present study aimed to explore how self-compassionate engagement and action competences may differentially impact on body appreciation, and wh...
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - November 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

How Contextual Behavioral Scientists Measure and Report About Behavior: A Review of JCBS
Publication date: Available online 14 November 2018Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral ScienceAuthor(s): Donny Newsome, Kendra Newsome, Timothy C. Fuller, Staheli MeyerAbstractThis paper presents data from a review of the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science (JCBS) with a focus on the ways contextual behavioral scientists measure and report about behavior. The results indicate that a majority of empirical papers in JCBS utilize only one type of measurement: self-report. This finding is considered with respect to the stated scientific aims of the Contextual Behavior Science (CBS) community, and to the merits and ri...
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - November 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Effect of Brief Mindfulness Training on Momentary Impulsivity
Publication date: Available online 6 November 2018Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral ScienceAuthor(s): Mark R. Dixon, Dana Paliliunas, Jordan Belisle, Ryan C. Speelman, Karl F. Gunnarsson, Jordan L. ShafferAbstractDelay discounting describes the tendency to select smaller-sooner rewards over larger-later rewards, which has been proposed as a behavior analytic model of impulsivity. Framed in this way, impulsivity is problematic because it results in the sub-optimization of rewards and is related to several addictive behaviors. The present study evaluated the efficacy of a brief, 5-minute mindfulness exercise on partic...
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - November 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

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)
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - November 4, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Improving Relations among Conservatives and Liberals on a College Campus: A Preliminary Trial of a Contextual-Behavioral Intervention
In this study, we examined the effectiveness of a half-day workshop to decrease polarization and improve closeness between conservatives and liberals at a majority-liberal college campus. Informed by political psychology and relationship science, the intervention employed exercises derived from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Functional Analytic Psychotherapy to encourage identification of core beliefs and vulnerable discussions of deeper reasons for core political beliefs aimed at generating closeness and understanding between participants. Participants (N=20) were assigned to 2 groups: one of mixed conservatives an...
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - October 29, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Surfing the Urge: An Informal Mindfulness Practice for the Self-Management of Aggression by Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Publication date: Available online 26 October 2018Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral ScienceAuthor(s): Nirbhay N. Singh, Giulio E. Lancioni, Bryan T. Karazsia, Rachel E. Myers, Eunjin Kim, Jeffrey Chan, Monica M. Jackman, Carrie L. McPherson, Melissa JansonAbstractSome individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) engage in verbal and physical aggression that is inimical to their educational and social development. Given that no specific treatment is applicable to all individuals with ASD, there is a need to develop and assess interventions that enable self-management of these behaviors. In a multiple-baseline desi...
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - October 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A Systematic Review of Values Measures in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Research
Publication date: Available online 27 October 2018Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral ScienceAuthor(s): Erin D. Reilly, Tim R. Ritzert, Arielle A.J. Scoglio, Jasmine Mote, Seiya D. Fukuda, Meghan E. Ahern, Megan M. KellyAbstractValues are a guiding principle in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and a vital element of both ACT research and clinical assessment. This systematic review aimed to evaluate the current evidence for the utility and efficacy of quantitative survey measures that assess values within an ACT study framework. Online databases were searched using key words to identify research articles admini...
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - October 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Network analysis: A new psychometric approach to examine the underlying ACT model components
Publication date: Available online 16 October 2018Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral ScienceAuthor(s): Andria Christodoulou, Michalis Michaelides, Maria KareklaAbstractThe present paper revisits the conceptualization of the Psychological Inflexibility/ Flexibility (PI/PF) model underlying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). PI psychopathology model consists of six interrelated maladaptive components, that together contribute to the formation of inflexible behavioural patterns that lead to psychological suffering. PF model comprises six skills that collectively assist people to increase their psychological well-b...
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - October 17, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The reciprocal relations between experiential avoidance and social anxiety among early adolescents: A prospective cohort study
In this study, we examined the reciprocal relations between experiential avoidance and social anxiety tendency among junior high school students. The responses of 660 Japanese junior high school students (313 boys and 347 girls, seventh to ninth grade, aged 12–15 years) to the Japanese short version of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth and the Japanese version of the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents were collected at three time-points with approximately four-month intervals between them. Cross-lagged path analyses revealed that a prior tendency for social anxiety tendency positively later affected a sl...
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - October 17, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II) as a measure of experiential avoidance: Concerns over discriminant validity
Publication date: Available online 26 September 2018Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral ScienceAuthor(s): Ian Tyndall, Daniel Waldeck, Luca Pancani, Robert Whelan, Bryan Roche, David L. DawsonAbstractPsychological inflexibility and experiential avoidance are key constructs in the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model of behavior change. Wolgast (2014) questioned the construct validity of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II), the most used self-report instrument to assess the efficacy of ACT interventions. Wolgast suggested that the AAQ-II measured psychological distress rather than psychological...
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - October 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Experimental Manipulation of Emotion Regulation Self-Efficacy: Effects on Emotion Regulation Ability, Perceived Effort in the Service of Regulation, and Affective Reactivity
Publication date: Available online 1 October 2018Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral ScienceAuthor(s): Natasha Benfer, Joseph R. Bardeen, Kate ClaussAbstractDeficits in emotion regulation self-efficacy (Tamir & Mauss, 2011) may be a risk factor for psychological distress. The present study sought to test the hypothesis that participants who were led to believe that emotion regulation self-efficacy was enhanced (expected success condition: n = 34), versus those in a control condition (n = 36), would report relatively less negative affective reactivity in response to a negative mood induction. Additionally, we hypothesi...
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - October 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Complexity of emotion regulation strategies in changing contexts: A study of varsity athletes
Publication date: Available online 20 September 2018Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral ScienceAuthor(s): Brittany Kucharski, Michael Arend Strating, Aman Ahluwalia Cameron, Antonio Pascual-LeoneAbstractResearch on emotion regulation has typically overlooked factors related to individual differences and situational contexts. The aim of the current study was to examine emotion regulation strategies used by 61 varsity athletes in different contexts; namely, before and after athletic competitions. Participant descriptions of pre- and post-competition emotion regulation strategies were coded using the Complexity of Emotio...
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - September 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A preliminary validation of the Swedish short version of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth (AFQ-Y8) for children and adolescents with cancer
Publication date: Available online 20 September 2018Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral ScienceAuthor(s): Jenny Thorsell Cederberg, Sandra Weineland, JoAnne Dahl, Gustaf LjungmanAbstractPsychological inflexibility constitutes a generalized vulnerability for psychopathology. Children and adolescents undergoing cancer treatment are faced with numerous physical and psychological stressors throughout their cancer trajectory. Most of the survivors show resilience but some groups report psychological ill-health and poor quality-of-life long-term. Psychological flexibility has been shown to mediate improvements in psychologi...
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - September 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research