¿El Cuestionario de Aceptación y Acción II mide realmente la evitación experiencial?

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  • Pablo Valencia Asociación Peruana Contextual-Conductual de Psicología

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35670/1667-4545.v19.n3.26776

Palabras clave:

evitación experiencial, AAQ-II, Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso, análisis factorial, validez

Resumen

Experiential avoidance (EA) has played an important role in early and recent conceptualisations of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire II (AAQ-II; Bond et al., 2011) is largely used as a measure of EA, in spite of criticism about its validity. The present study examined the latent correlations between the AAQ-II and a new measure of EA: the Avoidance of Suffering Questionnaire (ASQ). In addition, correlations with the Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (CFQ; Gillanders, 2014) were also examined. Two hundred and forty undergraduates (59% female, Mage = 20.33) completed the questionnaires. Both unrestricted and restricted factor analyses were performed in order to examine the hypothesised associations. The AAQ-II showed a strong correlation with the CFQ, but a rather weak correlation with the ASQ. These results suggest that the AAQ-II may not be a measure of EA.

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Pablo Valencia, Asociación Peruana Contextual-Conductual de Psicología

Psicólogo e investigador adscrito a la Asociación Peruana Contextual-Conductual de Psicología.

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2019-12-07

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Valencia, P. (2019). ¿El Cuestionario de Aceptación y Acción II mide realmente la evitación experiencial?. Revista Evaluar, 19(3), 42–53. https://doi.org/10.35670/1667-4545.v19.n3.26776

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