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Psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain: A longitudinal study

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Hernández-López, Mónica, Cepeda-Benito, Antonio, Díaz-Pavón, Pilar, Rodríguez-Valverde, Miguel·2021·Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

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Spain, one of the European countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, underwent a strict lockdown between March and May 2020. This study examines longitudinally the evolution of both psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms in a sample of college students from the beginning and throughout the end of the mandated lockdown period. We present the results from 197 participants who responded to an online survey at least at two of three data-collection waves scheduled at the beginning (N = 226), halfway (N = 172), and end (N = 188) of the lockdown. The analyses revealed that psychological inflexibility and symptomatology increased over time, and that inflexibility at the beginning of the lockdown indirectly predicted self-reported symptoms at the end of the lockdown via autoregressive parallel paths that also connected cross-sectionally to reveal that changes in inflexibility were predictive of changes in mental health. These results present a dynamic and robust relationship between psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms throughout a relatively long and presumably stressful period of time.

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  • Psychological inflexibility is a transdiagnostic dimension associated with psychological distress and poor mental health and quality of life.

    “Psychological inflexibility is a transdiagnostic dimension associated to psychological distress and poor mental health and quality of life.”

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    The Introduction (page not provided) describes psychological flexibility as a transdiagnostic dimension and says high psychological inflexibility is consistently associated with distress and poor mental health. It also links flexibility to a more satisfactory life, but does not explicitly establish an association between inflexibility and poor quality of life. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  • In a Spanish COVID-19 study, psychological inflexibility forecast changes in mental health.

    “A Spanish study during the COVID-19 pandemic showed that psychological inflexibility predicted changes in mental health (Hernández-López et al., 2021).”

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Authors
Hernández-López, M., Cepeda-Benito, A., Díaz-Pavón, P., & Rodríguez-Valverde, M.
Affiliations
Universidad de Jaén (ES)
Venue
Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-01
Volume
19
Pages
42-49
ISSN
2212-1447 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3111619043
Cited by
45
References
65
Citations by year
2025: 7 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 10
FWCI
2.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
University of Jaen
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
psychological inflexibility, psychiatric symptoms, COVID-19 lockdown, university students, psychological flexibility, longitudinal change

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