Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

Article	Citations
COVID-19: Psychological flexibility, coping, mental health, and wellbeing in the UK during the pandemic	270
The empirical status of acceptance and commitment therapy: A review of meta-analyses	252
The moderating roles of psychological flexibility and inflexibility on the mental health impacts of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in Italy	129
Psychological flexibility and inflexibility as sources of resiliency and risk during a pandemic: Modeling the cascade of COVID-19 stress on family systems with a contextual behavioral science lens	111
Psychological inflexibility and intolerance of uncertainty moderate the relationship between social isolation and mental health outcomes during COVID-19	84
The role of psychological flexibility in the context of COVID-19: Associations with depression, anxiety, and insomnia	70
Coping with the invisible enemy: The role of emotion regulation and awareness in quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic	69
Psychological flexibility in the context of COVID-19 adversity: Associations with distress	67
Report of the ACBS Task Force on the strategies and tactics of contextual behavioral science research	63
A psychometric comparison of psychological inflexibility measures: Discriminant validity and item performance	46
Modeling suicide risk among parents during the COVID-19 pandemic: Psychological inflexibility exacerbates the impact of COVID-19 stressors on interpersonal risk factors for suicide	45
Psy-Flex: A contextually sensitive measure of psychological flexibility	41
The efficacy of group-based acceptance and commitment therapy on psychological capital and school engagement: A pilot study among Chinese adolescents	36
Examining the correlates of psychological flexibility in romantic relationship and family dynamics: A meta-analysis	36
Acceptance and commitment therapy and subjective wellbeing: A systematic review and meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials in adults	35
Experiential avoidance in depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive related, and posttraumatic stress disorders: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis	33
I won't comply because it is a hoax: Conspiracy beliefs, lockdown compliance, and the importance of psychological flexibility	30
The Youth Compass -the effectiveness of an online acceptance and commitment therapy program to promote adolescent mental health: A randomized controlled trial	30
Validation of the english and french versions of the multidimensional psychological flexibility inventory short form (MPFI-24)	30
Mediators of the association between COVID-19-related stressors and parents’ psychological flexibility and inflexibility: The roles of perceived sleep quality and energy	30
Psychedelics and psychological flexibility – Results of a prospective web-survey using the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire II	28
Uncovering the links between parenting stress and parenting styles: The role of psychological flexibility within parenting and global psychological flexibility	28
Reducing microaggressions and promoting interracial connection: The racial harmony workshop	28
Comprehensive assessment of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes (CompACT): Measure refinement and study of measurement invariance across Portuguese and UK samples	26
Psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain: A longitudinal study	24

Evaluating the factor structure of the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory: An independent replication and extension	24
The Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI): Discriminant validity of psychological flexibility with distress	24
Using acceptance and commitment training to enhance the effectiveness of behavioral skills training	24
Behind the masks: A cross-sectional study on intolerance of uncertainty, perceived vulnerability to disease and psychological flexibility in relation to state anxiety and wellbeing during the COVID-19	24
Process-based functional analysis can help behavioral science step up to novel challenges: COVID - 19 as an example	23
Occupational stressors, mental health, and sleep difficulty among nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating roles of cognitive fusion and cognitive reappraisal	22
Exploring the impact of carer stressors and psychological inflexibility on depression and anxiety in family carers of people with dementia	21
A contextual behavioral approach for responding to moral dilemmas in the age of COVID-19	21
Effects of acceptance and commitment therapy on process measures of family caregivers: A systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Italian validation of the Italian multidimensional psychological flexibility inventory (MPFI)	20
Toward empirical process-based case conceptualization: An idionomic network examination of the process-based assessment tool	20
Developing an item pool to assess processes of change in psychological interventions: The Process-Based Assessment Tool (PBAT)	18
Psychological flexibility, self-compassion and daily functioning in chronic pain	18
Evidence and characteristics of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)-based interventions for insomnia: A systematic review of randomized and non-randomized trials	16
Relationship between psychological flexibility and work-related quality of life for healthcare professionals: A systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Examining the relationship between public speaking anxiety, distress tolerance and psychological flexibility	15
Single-session acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) interventions for patients with chronic health conditions: A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Psychological flexibility and COVID-19 burnout in Chinese college students: A moderated mediation model	15
Choosing not to follow rules that will reduce the spread of COVID-19	14
Psychological flexibility and psychological inflexibility are independently associated with both hedonic and eudaimonic well-being	14
Integrating storytelling into the theory and practice of contextual behavioral science	14
A randomised controlled trial of brief web-based acceptance and commitment Therapy on the general mental health, depression, anxiety and stress of college Students	13
The relationship between value-based actions, psychological distress and well-being: A multilevel diary study	13
A multicultural examination of experiential avoidance: AAQ – II measurement comparisons across Asian American, Black, Latinx, Middle Eastern, and White college students	13
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy informed behavioral health interventions delivered by non-mental health professionals: A systematic review	13
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for women living with Vulvodynia: A single-case experimental design study of a treatment delivered online	13
The role of thought suppression and psychological inflexibility in older family caregivers’ psychological symptoms and quality of life	13
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on physical activity: A systematic review	13
Examining processes of change in an online acceptance and commitment therapy dismantling trial with distressed college students	12
Measuring intimacy as a contextual behavioral process: Psychometric development and evaluation of the Awareness, Courage, and Responsiveness Scale	12
An integrative contextual behavioral model of intimate relations	12
Psychological flexibility profiles, college adjustment, and subjective well-being among college students in China: A latent profile analysis	12
Internalized transphobia, nondisclosure of gender identity, and life satisfaction among transgender and non-binary adults: The moderating roles of psychological flexibility and inflexibility	12
The relationship between three ACT core processes of change, PTSD, and depressive symptoms	12
The Persian Personalized Psychological Flexibility Index (P-PPFI): Psychometric properties in a general population sample of Iranians	11
Assessment methods in single case design studies of psychological treatments for chronic pain: A scoping review	11
Post-traumatic growth in people experiencing high post-traumatic stress during the COVID-19 pandemic: The protective role of psychological flexibility	11
Meaning in life buffers the impact of experiential avoidance on anxiety	11
ACTing towards better living during COVID-19: The effects of Acceptance and Commitment therapy for individuals affected by COVID-19	11
Adaptability and psychological flexibility: Overlapping constructs?	11
The moderating effects of psychological flexibility and psychological inflexibility on the relationship between climate concern and climate-related distress	11
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for adults with intellectual disabilities and/or autism spectrum conditions (ASC): A systematic review"	11
In the shadow of COVID-19: A randomized controlled online ACT trial promoting adolescent psychological flexibility and self-compassion	10
Does it help to talk about it? Co-rumination, internalizing symptoms, and committed action during the COVID-19 global pandemic	10
A quasi-experimental, multicenter study of acceptance and commitment therapy for antisocial youth in residential care.	10
An exploratory analysis of Relational Density Theory: Relational resistance and gravity	9
Individuals perspectives related to acceptance, values and mindfulness following participation in an acceptance-based pain management programme	9
The relationships between valued living and depression and anxiety: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression	9
The moderating role of psychological inflexibility in the relationship between minority stress, substance misuse, and suicidality in LGB+ adolescents	9
Interrupting internalized racial oppression: A community based ACT intervention	9

Acceptance and commitment therapy as a school-based group intervention for adolescents: An open-label trial	9
Adverse childhood experiences and adult psychopathological symptoms: The moderating role of dispositional mindfulness	9
Embracing complex models: Exploratory network analyses of psychological (In)Flexibility processes and unique associations with psychiatric symptomology and quality of life	9
Gambling to escape: A systematic review of the relationship between avoidant emotion regulation/coping strategies and gambling severity	8
Exploring the effectiveness of mindfulness-based and third wave interventions in addressing self-stigma, shame and their impacts on psychosocial functioning: A systematic review	8
Relating, orienting and evoking functions in an IRAP study involving emotional pictographs (emojis) used in electronic messages	8
Testing the relationship between health values consistent living and health-related behavior	8
A trauma-focused intensive outpatient program integrating elements of exposure therapy with acceptance and commitment therapy: Program development and initial outcomes	8
Acceptance and Action Questionnaire II: Measurement invariance and associations with distress tolerance among an ethnically diverse university sample	8
Impact of Acceptance and Commitment Training on psychological flexibility and burnout in medical education	8
Effect of acceptance and commitment therapy in improving interpersonal skills in adolescents: A randomized waitlist control trial	8
Predicting personal protective equipment use, trauma symptoms, and physical symptoms in the USA during the early weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown (April 9–18, 2020)	8
Decreases in psychological inflexibility predict PTSD symptom improvement in inpatient adolescents	8
A call for ACTion: A systematic review of empirical evidence for the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with LGBTQI+ individuals	8
Growth in crisis: A mixed methods study of lessons from our patients with chronic pain during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Is giving receiving? The influence of autonomy on the association between prosocial behavior and well-being	7
Investigating the role of psychological inflexibility, mindfulness, and self-compassion in PTSD	7
Compassion-focused acceptance and commitment therapy for women with restrictive eating and problematic body-checking: A multiple baseline across participants study	7
In-person and online-delivered acceptance and commitment therapy for hoarding disorder: A multiple baseline study	7
Investigating the role of negative and positive emotional avoidance in the relation between generalized anxiety disorder and depression symptom severity	7
Acceptance and commitment group therapy among Saudi Muslim females with mental health disorders	7
A contextual-behavioral perspective on chronic pain during the COVID-19 pandemic and future times of mandated physical distancing	7
Psychological mediators in the relationship between paediatric chronic pain and adjustment: An investigation of acceptance, catastrophising and kinesiophobia	7
Experiential avoidance and fear of intimacy: A contextual behavioral account of loneliness and resulting psychopathology symptoms	7
Self-compassion buffers the effects of perfectionistic self-presentation on social media on wellbeing	7
Alcohol, trait anger, and psychological flexibility: A laboratory investigation of intimate partner violence perpetration	7
Acceptance and commitment therapy for adolescents and adults with neurofibromatosis type 1, plexiform neurofibromas, and chronic pain: Results of a randomized controlled trial	7
Chinese validation of the Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire (BEAQ) in college students	7
Coherence and the merging of relational classes in self-organizing networks: Extending Relational Density Theory	7
Resilience mediates the cross-sectional relationship between mindfulness and positive mental health in early adolescence	7
The effects of bilingual Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) on exercise in bilingual international university students	7
Acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for adolescents with type 1 diabetes: A randomized controlled trial	6
Coping styles mediate the association between psychological inflexibility and psychological functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic: A crucial role of meaning-centered coping	6
Adolescents with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes: Psychological flexibility is associated with the glycemic control, quality of life and depressive symptoms	6
Associations of interpersonal and intrapersonal emotion regulation strategies to suicidal ideation and suicide attempts	6
An experimental investigation of the effects of perspective-taking on emotional discomfort, cognitive fusion and self-compassion	6
Gender differences in multidisciplinary pain rehabilitation: The mediating role of pain acceptance	6
The roles of emotion regulation difficulties and impulsivity in the associations between borderline personality disorder symptoms and frequency of nonprescription sedative use and prescription sedativ	6
Intolerance of uncertainty and psychological symptoms among people with a missing loved one: Emotion regulation difficulties and psychological inflexibility as mediators	6
Acceptance and values clarification versus cognitive restructuring and relaxation: A randomized controlled trial of ultra-brief non-expert-delivered coaching interventions for social resilience	6
Association of cognitive fusion with domains of health	6
Acceptance and commitment therapy interventions in secondary schools and their impact on students' mental health and well-being: A systematic review	6
A brief pilot self-compassion intervention for women with overweight/obesity and internalized weight bias: Feasibility, acceptability, and future directions	6
Health, well-being, and persisting symptoms in the pandemic: What is the role of psychological flexibility?	6
A mixed-methods evaluation of experiential intervention exercises for values and committed action from an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) mental health promotion program for university student	6
Cognitive fusion potentiates the effect of maladaptive posttraumatic cognitions on posttraumatic stress symptoms	6
When is your distress harder to tolerate? A qualitative analysis of situations in which distress tolerance is impaired and strengthened	5
Experiential avoidance as a moderator for coping with a brief episode of ostracism: A pilot study	5
Persian adaptation of avoidance and fusion questionnaire for youth (AFQ-Y): A preliminary examination of its psychometric properties	5
Live with your body – participants’ reflections on an acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for patients with residual eating disorder symptoms	5
Psychological flexibility and inflexibility in obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions, disability, and quality of life: An online longitudinal study	5
A randomized controlled trial of group-based acceptance and commitment therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder	5
Retrospective cohort study of a novel acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for adolescents implemented in integrated primary care	5
Tracing the missteps of stepped care: Improving the implementation of stepped care through contextual behavioral science	5
A psychometric validation of contextual cognitive behavioral therapy-informed measures with racially and ethnically diverse adults	5
Acceptance-based telephone support around the time of transition to secondary progressive multiple sclerosis: A feasibility randomised controlled trial	5
The impact of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on quality of life and symptom improvement among chronic health conditions: A systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for eating disorders: A systematic review of intervention studies and call to action	5
How do people with acquired brain injury interpret the Valued Living Questionnaire? A cognitive interviewing study	5
Exploring the addition of self-compassion skills training to a behavioral weight loss program delivered using video conferencing software	5
Exploring the relationship between psychological flexibility and self-report and task-based measures of cognitive flexibility	5
A systematic and critical response to Pendrous et al. (2020) replication study	4
Validation of the Valuing Questionnaire (VQ) in adults with cardiovascular disease and risk	4
The CompACT-10: Development and validation of a Comprehensive assessment of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes short-form in representative UK samples	4
Differential Crel and Cfunc acquisition through stimulus pairing	4
Appetitive augmental functions and common physical properties in a pain-tolerance metaphor: An extended replication	4
Psychological flexibility as a predictor of mental health outcomes in parents of pre-school children during the COVID-19 pandemic: A two-year longitudinal study	4
In support of reacquainting functional contextualism and interbehaviorism	4
Can a smartphone application help Hispanic/Latinx adults quit smoking? A randomized trial secondary analysis	4
Real-time fluctuations in mindful awareness, willingness, and values clarity, and their associations with craving and dietary lapse among those seeking weight loss	4
Testing Functional Analytic Psychotherapy's mediational model of change in social connectedness for people with fear of intimacy	4
Intensive outpatient acceptance and commitment therapy with exposure and response prevention for adolescents	4
A preliminary investigation of the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy on neural activation in clinical perfectionism	4
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Promote Recovery from suicidal crises: A Randomized Controlled Acceptability and Feasibility Trial of ACT for life	4
Impact of acceptance and commitment therapy on physical and psychological symptoms in advanced gastrointestinal cancer patients and caregivers: Secondary results of a pilot randomized trial	4
Daily changes in state emotion regulation abilities predict positive and negative affect	4
Acceptance and commitment therapy for insomnia and sleep quality: A systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Assessing mindfulness and self-compassion facets as mediators of change in patients with depressive, anxious and adjustment disorders: Secondary data analysis of a randomized controlled trial	4
Does Cognitive Fusion show up similarly across two behavioral health samples? Psychometric properties and invariance of the Greek–Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (G-CFQ)	4
Mindfulness, parenting behavior, and children's mental health: An investigation among diverse, low-income mothers of preschool aged children	4

Assessing psychological inflexibility in infertility: The development and validation study of the Psychological Inflexibility Scale – Infertility (PIS-I)	4
A pilot study of acceptance and commitment therapy for sexual minorities experiencing work stress	4
Inflexitext: A program assessing psychological inflexibility in unstructured verbal data	4
Development and validation of the Adult OCD Impact Scale (AOIS): A measure of psychosocial functioning for adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder	4
The current status of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in Iran: A systematic narrative review	4
Predicting sleep quality and insomnia severity using the components of the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) model: A new perspective	4
A pilot randomized controlled trial of culturally-adapted, telehealth group acceptance and commitment therapy for Iranian adolescent females reporting symptoms of anxiety	4
Factors predicting quality of life in family carers of people with dementia: The role of psychological inflexibility	3
The Flourishing Footballers programme: Using psycho-education to develop resilience through ACT	3
A systematic review of inclusion of minoritized populations in randomized controlled trials of acceptance and commitment therapy	3
Curriculum-based yoga and acceptance and commitment training intervention for undergraduate students: A mixed-methods investigation	3
Roads less travelled to self-forgiveness: Can psychological flexibility overcome chronic guilt/shame to achieve genuine self-forgiveness?	3
The effect of acceptance and commitment training on improving physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The importance of idiographic and functionally analytic strategies in the unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders	3
Values intervention as an establishing operation for approach in the presence of aversive stimuli	3
Experiential avoidance and the misinterpretation of intrusions as prospective predictors of postpartum obsessive-compulsive symptoms in first-time parents	3
Moderating effect of IBS acceptance on psychosocial mediators of Irritable Bowel Syndrome	3
Low standards yet disappointed: ADHD symptoms and experiential avoidance in college students	3
Acceptance and Action Questionnaire – II: Confirmatory factor analysis and measurement invariance between Non-Hispanic White and Hispanic/Latinx undergraduates	3
Interbehavior as a clinical focus in CBS: A response to Hayes and Fryling (2019)	3
Mindfulness predicts current risk of opioid analgesic misuse in chronic low back pain patients receiving opioid therapy	3
Confirmatory factor analysis of the Comprehensive Assessment of acceptance and Commitment Therapy (CompACT) in active-duty military personnel	3
Further validation of the 18-item Portuguese CompACT scale using a multi-sample design: Confirmatory factor analysis and correlates of psychological flexibility	3
The effects of loneliness and psychological flexibility on veterans’ substance use and physical and mental health functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Psychometric properties and measurement invariance of the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory- Persian (MPFI-P): An extensive investigation of long and short versions in community and	3
The differences between acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral therapy: A three-level meta-analysis	3
Further validation of the cognitive fusion questionnaire – chronic illness (CFQ-CI) in different health condition samples	3
Does the Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire measure more than frequency of negative thoughts?	3
The “how” of exposures: Examining the relationship between exposure parameters and outcomes in obsessive-compulsive disorder	3
Emotion regulation and memory in response to a trauma analogue: An online experimental comparison of humor and acceptance	3
Acceptability and feasibility of a gamified digital eating disorder early-intervention program (AcceptME) based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)	3
Experiential avoidance and depression predict values engagement among people in treatment for borderline personality disorder	3
On the failure to replicate past findings regarding positive affirmations and self-esteem	3
The empowerment plan: Enhancing the safety plan with a CBS approach to repertoire expansion	3
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for inpatients with psychosis –an acceptability and feasibility single case AB designed study	3
Out of sight, out of mind? Exploring the long-term effects of Relational Mindfulness Training (RMT)	3