Relating coping, fear of uncertainty and alexithymia with psychological distress: The mediator role of experiential avoidance
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract\n\nThe present study tests the mediating role of experiential avoidance (EA;\n\nHayes, Wilson, Gifford, Follette, & Strosahl, 1996) to account for the\n\nrelations of avoidant coping, fear of uncertainty, and alexithymia with\n\nnegative psychological outcomes. Participants were 177 adults (51 males\n\nand 126 females; mean age = 34.5). Measures of EA (Acceptance and\n\nAction Questionnaire, AAQ), avoidant coping (Brief COPE scale), fear of\n\nuncertainty (Temperament and Character Inventory), alexithymia (Toronto\n\nAlexithymia Scale), and psychological outcomes (Behavior and Symptom\n\nIdentification Scale) were obtained from standardized, self-administered\n\nquestionnaires. Regression analyses were performed to test for mediation\n\nmodels. Results show that the effect of avoidant coping and fear of\n\nuncertainty on emotional distress and other negative outcomes decreases\n\nwhen controlling avoidance scores, whereas the latter predicts\n\npsychological outcomes. Findings suggest that EA may represent a\n\ngeneralized mechanism through which both avoidant coping and fear of\n\nuncertainty take on psychological significance. Results did not support,\n\nhowever, the mediating role of EA for explaining the relations between\n\nalexithymia and psychological outcomes.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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