The Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire: Development and Initial Validation

The Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire: Development and Initial Validation

The 62-item Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire (MEAQ) was recently developed to assess a broad range of experiential avoidance (EA) content. However, practical clinical and research considerations made a briefer measure of EA desirable. Using items from the original 62-item MEAQ,...

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Published in:Psychological assessment Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 35 - 45
Main Authors: Gámez, Wakiza, Chmielewski, Michael, Kotov, Roman, Ruggero, Camilo, Suzuki, Nadia, Watson, David
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC American Psychological Association 01-03-2014
Subjects:
Adaptability (Personality)
Adolescent
Adult
Adults
Anxiety Disorders - psychology
Avoidance
Biological and medical sciences
Defense Mechanisms
Denial (Psychology)
Depressive Disorder, Major - psychology
Experiential Avoidance
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Female
Human
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Outpatient
Patients
Psychological Flexibility
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics
Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Quality of Life
Questionnaires
Repression, Psychology
Reproducibility of Results
Surveys and Questionnaires
Techniques and methods
Test Validity
Young Adult
psychological flexibility
assessment
avoidance
Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire
experiential avoidance
Human
Test validation
Evaluation
Questionnaire
Psychometrics
Test construction
Flexibility
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Summary:The 62-item Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire (MEAQ) was recently developed to assess a broad range of experiential avoidance (EA) content. However, practical clinical and research considerations made a briefer measure of EA desirable. Using items from the original 62-item MEAQ, a 15-item scale was created that tapped content from each of the MEAQ's six dimensions. Items were selected on the basis of their performance in 3 samples: undergraduates (n = 363), psychiatric outpatients (n = 265), and community adults (n = 215). These items were then evaluated using 2 additional samples (314 undergraduates and 201 psychiatric outpatients) and cross-validated in 2 new, independent samples (283 undergraduates and 295 community adults). The resulting measure (Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire; BEAQ) demonstrated good internal consistency. It also exhibited strong convergence with respect to each of the MEAQ's 6 dimensions. The BEAQ demonstrated expected associations with measures of avoidance, psychopathology, and quality of life and was distinguishable from negative affectivity and neuroticism.
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ISSN:1040-3590
1939-134X
DOI:10.1037/a0034473