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Carter, 2006; Giorgio et al., 2010), as well as general psychopathology, anxiety,
depression, specific fears, trauma, and lower quality of life (Hayes et al., 2004).
EA mediates relationships between a variety of events and later
psychopathology. Rosenthal, Hall, Palm, Batten, and Follette (2005) examined the
relationship between childhood sexual abuse severity and later symptoms as a function
of the level of EA in 153 female undergraduate students. Using a mediation analyses, it
was determined that EA as a mediator accounts for about 21% of the exacerbation of
symptoms following childhood sexual abuse (Rosenthal, Hall, Palm, Batten, & Follette,
2005). Likewise, EA mediates the relationship between sexual victimization and future
psychopathology such as depression, psychological distress and substance use
disorders (Polusny, Rosenthal, Aban, & Follette, 2004), trauma and PTSD (Orcutt,
Pickett, & Pope, 2005), trauma exposure and somatic stress (Morina, Ford, Risch,
Morina, & Stangier, 2010), pre-term birth and maternal adjustment (Greco, et al 2005),
childhood sexual abuse and psychological distress (Marx & Sloan, 2002), childhood
sexual abuse and high risk sexual behaviors (Batten, Follette, & Aban, 2001) and
problematic coping strategies and psychopathology (Fledderus, Bohlmeijer, & Pieterse,
2010). Also, EA partially mediates the rape-PTSD relationship (Boeschen, Koss,
Figueredo, & Coan, 2001).
Furthermore, negative correlations between EA and variables related to
psychological wellbeing strengthen the case for EA as a possible diagnostic category.
As such, emergent research suggests that EA is negatively correlated with a variety of
normal range life issues. For example, Kashdan, Barrios, Forsyth, and Steger (2006)
examined the role of EA in coping in a sample of 382 undergraduate students. They
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Vander Lugt, Amanda Adcock. Evaluating Process Variables in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, dissertation, August 2011; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84296/m1/13/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .