Experiential avoidance, committed action and quality of life: Differences between college students with and without chronic illness

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 c...

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Published in:Journal of health psychology 2021-06, Vol.26 (7), p.1035-1045
Main Authors: Coutinho, Mariana, Trindade, Inês A, Ferreira, Cláudia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
anxiety disorder
Anxiety Disorders
Avoidance behavior
Avoidance Learning
chronic disease
chronic illness
Chronic illnesses
College students
Commitment
committed action
experiential avoidance
human
Humans
Quality of life
student
Students
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1359-1053
1461-7277
1461-7277
DOI:10.1177/1359105319860167