The Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire

Introduction: Experiential avoidance ( ea ) is a central concept in the study of psychopathology from acontextual-behavioral perspective. The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire ii ( aaq - ii ) has become themost commonly used measure of ea . However, some authors have seriously questioned its validity. Inthis context, the Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire ( beaq ) is a promising alternative.Aim: The present study intended to translate the beaq into Spanish and analyze its psychometric prop-erties in a Peruvian sample.Materials and methods: The beaq was back-translated and a group of experts assessed the quality ofthe items. The questionnaire was responded by 376 Peruvian university students. The beaq - ii itemswere then subjected to an exploratory factorial analysis. Reliability estimators (H, α, ωT, ωTR) werealso calculated.Results: The results did not support the supposed unidimensional nature of the beaq . Moreover, theysuggested the presence of two factors called Avoidance of Suffering and Disconnection and Deacti-vation. Only the Avoidance of Suffering factor showed good reliability and could be easily interpreted.Conclusion: Future research should develop a new measure of ea based on the items of the Avoidanceof Suffering factor. It is suggested that researchers continue to use aaq - ii until better measures of ex-periential avoidance are available.

• Autores: Valencia, Pablo D.
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2018
• Institución: Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UCC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.ucc.edu.co:20.500.12494/9632
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.ucc.edu.co/index.php/pe/article/view/2412; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12494/9632
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Derechos de autor 2018 Pensando Psicología