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- Abstract
- Habitual Acceptance and Psychological Health
- Habitual Acceptance and Emotional Responses to Stress
- The Present Studies
- Through Which Emotional Mechanisms Does Habitual Acceptance Benefit Psychological Health?
- How Broadly Does Habitual Acceptance Benefit Psychological Health?
- How Generalizable Are the Benefits of Habitual Acceptance?
- How Can Alternative Explanations of the Benefits of Acceptance Be Ruled out?
- Study 1
- Method
- Research ethics committee
- Participants
- Materials
- Acceptance
- Psychological health
- Demographic variables
- Stress
- Discriminant validity measures
- Procedure
- Results
- The link between acceptance and psychological health
- Tests of discriminant validity
- Reappraisal
- Rumination
- Other mindfulness facets
- Robustness of the link between acceptance and psychological health
- Moderations of the link between acceptance and psychological health
- Contrasting acceptance of mental experiences with acceptance of situations
- Discussion
- Study 2
- Method
- Research ethics committee
- Participants
- Materials
- Acceptance
- Emotional responses to a laboratory stressor
- Demographic variables
- Procedure
- Results
- Emotional responses to the stress induction
- The link between acceptance and negative emotional responses to stress
- Robustness of the link between acceptance and negative emotional responses to stress
- Moderations of the link between acceptance and negative emotional responses to stress
- Discussion
- Study 3
- Method
- Research ethics committee
- Participants
- Materials
- Acceptance
- Emotional responses during daily stressors
- Psychological health
- Demographic variables
- Stress
- Procedure
- Results
- Did acceptance predict psychological health?
- The link between acceptance and psychological health
- Robustness of the link between acceptance and psychological health
- Moderations of the link between acceptance and psychological health
- Contrasting acceptance of mental experiences with acceptance of situations
- Did acceptance predict emotion during daily stressors?
- The link between acceptance and negative emotional responses to stress
- Robustness of the link between acceptance and negative emotional responses to stress
- Moderations of the link between acceptance and negative emotional responses to stress
- Contrasting acceptance of mental states with acceptance of situations
- Did daily negative emotion mediate the link between acceptance and psychological health?
- Discussion
- General Discussion
- Negative Emotional Responses to Stress as a Mediator in the Link Between Acceptance and Psychological Health
- The Breadth and Generalizability of the Benefits of Acceptance
- Addressing Alternative Explanations
- Conceptual Implications
- Limitations and Future Directions
- Concluding Comment
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Abstract
Individuals differ in the degree to which they tend to habitually accept their emotions and thoughts...