The reciprocal relations between experiential avoidance, school stressor, and psychological stress response among Japanese adolescents

The present study aimed to investigate the reciprocal relations between experiential avoidance, stressor, and psychological stress response (which consist of anger, depression, anxiety, helplessness, and physical complaints). In this study, 688 Japanese junior high school students (353 boys, 334 gir...

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Published in:PloS one 2017-11, Vol.12 (11), p.e0188368-e0188368
Main Authors: Ishizu, Kenichiro, Shimoda, Yoshiyuki, Ohtsuki, Tomu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Anxiety
Asian Continental Ancestry Group
Avoidance
Avoidance Learning
Biology and Life Sciences
Child development
Diagnosis
Emotions
Female
Girls
Growth models
Humans
Independent study
Male
Medicine and Health Sciences
Mental depression
Mental disorders
Mental health care
Middle and junior high school students
Middle schools
Models, Psychological
People and Places
Post traumatic stress disorder
Psychological aspects
Psychological stress
Questionnaires
Research and Analysis Methods
Schools
Secondary school students
Secondary schools
Self destructive behavior
Short term
Social Sciences
Stress (Psychology)
Stress response
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Studies
Teenagers
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Summary:The present study aimed to investigate the reciprocal relations between experiential avoidance, stressor, and psychological stress response (which consist of anger, depression, anxiety, helplessness, and physical complaints). In this study, 688 Japanese junior high school students (353 boys, 334 girls, 1 unidentified; mean age 13.28 years) completed three waves of questionnaires on experiential avoidance, stressor, and psychological stress response, with one-week intervals between measurement waves. Results from cross-lagged panel analyses showed that experiential avoidance predicted subsequent stressor and psychological stress response. Furthermore, the stressor and psychological stress response influenced by prior experiential avoidance affected subsequent occurrence of experiential avoidance. The findings suggest that reciprocal relations exist among the variables, and that the interaction between experiential avoidance and psychological stress was possible in adolescents.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0188368