Assessing Psychological Flexibility: What Does It Add Above and Beyond Existing Constructs?

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 970-982

  Gloster, Andrew T ^a   Klotsche, Jens ^a   Chaker, Samia ^a   Hummel, Katrin V ^a   Hoyer, Jürgen ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AAQ II; Assessment; Incremental validity; Psychological flexibility; Psychometrics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY INDEX; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BIG FIVE-16 ADJECTIVE MEASURE; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; COMPOSITE INTERNATIONAL DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION ANXIETY STRESS SCALE; DSM-IV; EUROQOL 5D SCALE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HAMILTON ANXIETY SCALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE INVENTORY; PANIC; PANIC AND AGORAPHOBIA SCALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONALITY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE SEL-REPORT OF INHIBITION; ROSENBERG SELF-ESTEEM SCALE; SELF ESTEEM; SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS SCALE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL STATUS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83155173505     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024135     Document Type: Article

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