Validation of the avoidance and inflexibility scale (AIS) among treatment-seeking smokers

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 467-477

  Farris, Samantha G ^a   Zvolensky, Michael J ^a,b   DiBello, Angelo M ^a   Schmidt, Norman B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective inflexibility; Avoidance; Experiential avoidance; Exploratory factor analysis; Psychological inflexibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE AND INFLEXIBILITY SCALE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; VALIDATION STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930763696     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/pas0000059     Document Type: Article

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