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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Health Psychology

Background:

  • Coping strategies are crucial for managing psychological distress and promoting well-being.
  • Experiential avoidance, the tendency to evade internal experiences, may influence coping.
  • Understanding the relationship between these constructs is vital for mental health research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the associations between coping (Brief COPE) and experiential avoidance (AAQ-II).
  • To determine if experiential avoidance is part of coping or a separate construct.
  • To investigate their combined role in predicting psychological distress and well-being.

Main Methods:

  • Factor analysis was used to explore the construct of experiential avoidance in relation to coping.
  • Statistical analyses examined the predictive power of coping and experiential avoidance on distress and well-being.
  • ANOVAS were conducted to identify gender differences.

Main Results:

  • Experiential avoidance loaded onto the same factor as emotion-focused and avoidant coping strategies.
  • Higher experiential avoidance correlated with increased use of these coping styles.
  • Both constructs predicted psychological distress and well-being, with coping explaining more variance.

Conclusions:

  • Experiential avoidance is closely related to specific coping strategies, particularly emotion-focused and avoidant ones.
  • Both coping and experiential avoidance are significant predictors of psychological outcomes.
  • Gender differences exist in the utilization of coping and avoidance strategies, with implications for treatment.