Wakiza Gamez

TL;DR: It is found that common mental disorders are strongly linked to personality and have similar trait profiles, and greater attention to these constructs can significantly benefit psychopathology research and clinical practice.

TL;DR: A new self-report instrument, the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS), which was designed to assess specific symptom dimensions of major depression and related anxiety disorders, shows strong short-term stability and display excellent convergent validity and good discriminant validity in relation to other self- report and interview-based measures of depression and anxiety.

TL;DR: The resulting measure, the Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire, or MEAQ, exhibited good internal consistency, was substantially associated with other measures of avoidance, and demonstrated greater discrimination vis-à-vis neuroticism relative to preexisting measures of EA.

TL;DR: The authors examined relations among neuroticism/negative emotionality, extraversion/positive emotionality (E/PE), and mood and anxiety disorders, and found that E/PE correlates most strongly with anhedonia/depressed affect and social anxiety.

TL;DR: The Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire demonstrated expected associations with measures of avoidance, psychopathology, and quality of life and was distinguishable from negative affectivity and neuroticism.