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Post-traumatic distress and the presence of post-traumatic growth and meaning in life: Experiential avoidance as a moderator

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It is hypothesized that people reporting posttraumatic distress and less reliance on experiential avoidance would report greater posttraumatic growth and meaning in life compared with other trauma survivors and results supported these moderation models.
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This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 2011-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 179 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Experiential avoidance & Posttraumatic growth.

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Life is pretty meaningful.

TL;DR: It is suggested that if meaning in life plays a role in adaptation, it must be commonplace, as the analysis suggests.
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Emotion Regulation and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms: A Meta-Analysis

TL;DR: It is suggested that several aspects of ER are associated with PTS symptoms across a variety of samples and the current study highlights a number of limitations in the existing ER and PTS symptom literature.
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Acceptance and commitment therapy for anxiety and OCD spectrum disorders: an empirical review.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis is presented examining the relationship between psychological flexibility, measured by versions of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ and AAQ-II) and measures of anxiety, and preliminary meta-analytic results show that ACT is equally effective as manualized treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapy.
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The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II) as a measure of experiential avoidance: Concerns over discriminant validity

TL;DR: This article examined the construct validity of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II) by conducting an online cross-sectional survey (n = 524), including separate measures of experiential avoidance and psychological distress.
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The moderating roles of psychological flexibility and inflexibility on the mental health impacts of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in Italy

TL;DR: Results showed that after controlling for sociodemographic variables, global psychological flexibility and four of its sub-processes, mitigated the detrimental impacts of COVID-19 risk factors on mental health.
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

TL;DR: An issue concerning the criteria for tic disorders is highlighted, and how this might affect classification of dyskinesias in psychotic spectrum disorders.
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Stress, appraisal, and coping

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a detailed theory of psychological stress, building on the concepts of cognitive appraisal and coping, which have become major themes of theory and investigation in psychology.
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Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of predictor scaling on the coefficients of regression equations are investigated. But, they focus mainly on the effect of predictors scaling on coefficients of regressions.
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