Psychological inflexibility mediates the relationship between fear of negative evaluation and psychological vulnerabilit
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Psychological inflexibility mediates the relationship between fear of negative evaluation and psychological vulnerability Erol Uğur 1
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Çınar Kaya 2
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Ahmet Tanhan 3,4,5,6
Accepted: 17 September 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract College students worldwide and in Turkey face many biopsychosocial spiritual and economic issues, in part due to developmental and contextual factors. Understanding these issues and their relationship with psychological inflexibility, which is the central concept to the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), is an unexplored gap in the literature. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to examine the mediating and moderating roles of Psychological Inflexibility (PI) in the relationship between Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE) and Psychological Vulnerability (PV), and to set an empirical ground for developing evidence-based research and practices based on ACT. The study group consisted of 389 undergraduate students studying in various departments of a mid-sized urban state university. Regression-based mediation and moderation testing procedures revealed that PI partially mediates the relationship between FNE and PV. Moderating role of PI on the same relationship was not verified. The present findings are deemed to be useful for understanding the relationships of these constructs and developing future mental health research and interventions to address biopsychosocial spiritual issues and enhance wellbeing especially from an ACT perspective. Keywords Psychological inflexibility . Fear of negative evaluation . Psychological vulnerability . Acceptance and commitment therapy . Counseling . Mental health . College students
Stressful life experiences have significant influence on individual’s functioning, which may result in anxiety, confusion, withdrawal, depression, and heightened vulnerability (McDonnell and Semkovska 2020; Tanhan 2019; Soares
and Woods 2020). In this respect, vulnerability means that some people are more affected by stressful life events than others (Levine 2004; Shenk et al. 2014), and they may become more vulnerable to psychological problems (e.g., behavioral
The author names have been ordered based on their relative contributions to the conduct of the study and preparation of the manuscript. The authors agreed on the order and on all other processes related to the submission of the manuscript. An earlier draft of this study findings was partially presented as an oral presentation at ERTE Congress: 1st International Education Research and Teacher Education Congress 2017 held in 14th–16th September, in Uşak, Turkey. The manuscript has not been published or sent for publication elsewhere. * Erol Uğur [email protected] Çınar Kaya [email protected]
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Psychological Counseling and Guidance at the Faculty of Education, Kütahya Dumlupınar University, 43100 Kütahya, Turkey
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Economic and Social Research Center – ESAM, Ankara, Turkey
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Department of Counseling, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Gr
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