Experiential avoidance, committed action and quality of life: Differences between college students with and without chronic illness
2021 (English)In: Journal of Health Psychology, ISSN 1359-1053, E-ISSN 1461-7277, Vol. 26, no 7, p. 1035-1045Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This study aimed to explore, through structural equation modelling, experiential avoidance and committed action's effects on the association between anxiety and psychological quality of life and whether this relationship presents significant differences across a sample of 115 college students with chronic illness and a sample of 232 students without illness. Students with chronic illness presented higher levels of anxiety and experiential avoidance and lower levels of quality of life. The association between anxiety and psychological quality of life was partially explained by experiential avoidance and committed action. This path model was shown to be invariant between the two groups of students.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2021. Vol. 26, no 7, p. 1035-1045
Keywords [en]
anxiety, chronic illness, committed action, experiential avoidance, quality of life, anxiety disorder, avoidance behavior, chronic disease, human, student, Anxiety Disorders, Avoidance Learning, Humans, Students
National Category
Clinical Medicine Applied Psychology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-109207DOI: 10.1177/1359105319860167ISI: 000476285200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85069050059OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-109207DiVA, id: diva2:1806114
Note
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: Research by Ines A. Trindade was supported by a PhD Grant (No. SFRH/BD/101906/2014) sponsored by FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology).
2023-10-192023-10-192023-10-23Bibliographically approved