Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of psychological flexibility in the context of COVID-19: Associations with depression, anxiety, and insomnia82
Coping with the invisible enemy: The role of emotion regulation and awareness in quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic76
Report of the ACBS Task Force on the strategies and tactics of contextual behavioral science research73
Psy-Flex: A contextually sensitive measure of psychological flexibility65
Experiential avoidance in depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive related, and posttraumatic stress disorders: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis47
The Youth Compass -the effectiveness of an online acceptance and commitment therapy program to promote adolescent mental health: A randomized controlled trial35
Comprehensive assessment of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes (CompACT): Measure refinement and study of measurement invariance across Portuguese and UK samples33
I won't comply because it is a hoax: Conspiracy beliefs, lockdown compliance, and the importance of psychological flexibility32
Toward empirical process-based case conceptualization: An idionomic network examination of the process-based assessment tool29
The Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI): Discriminant validity of psychological flexibility with distress28
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-1928
Developing an item pool to assess processes of change in psychological interventions: The Process-Based Assessment Tool (PBAT)27
Occupational stressors, mental health, and sleep difficulty among nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating roles of cognitive fusion and cognitive reappraisal25
Psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain: A longitudinal study24
Relationship between psychological flexibility and work-related quality of life for healthcare professionals: A systematic review and meta-analysis23
Italian validation of the Italian multidimensional psychological flexibility inventory (MPFI)23
Single-session acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) interventions for patients with chronic health conditions: A systematic review and meta-analysis23
Evidence and characteristics of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)-based interventions for insomnia: A systematic review of randomized and non-randomized trials20
Psychological flexibility and COVID-19 burnout in Chinese college students: A moderated mediation model18
Psychological flexibility and psychological inflexibility are independently associated with both hedonic and eudaimonic well-being18
A randomised controlled trial of brief web-based acceptance and commitment Therapy on the general mental health, depression, anxiety and stress of college Students18
In the shadow of COVID-19: A randomized controlled online ACT trial promoting adolescent psychological flexibility and self-compassion17
Internalized transphobia, nondisclosure of gender identity, and life satisfaction among transgender and non-binary adults: The moderating roles of psychological flexibility and inflexibility17
Integrating storytelling into the theory and practice of contextual behavioral science16
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy informed behavioral health interventions delivered by non-mental health professionals: A systematic review16
ACTing towards better living during COVID-19: The effects of Acceptance and Commitment therapy for individuals affected by COVID-1916
Gambling to escape: A systematic review of the relationship between avoidant emotion regulation/coping strategies and gambling severity16
Psychological flexibility profiles, college adjustment, and subjective well-being among college students in China: A latent profile analysis16
The role of thought suppression and psychological inflexibility in older family caregivers’ psychological symptoms and quality of life15
Adaptability and psychological flexibility: Overlapping constructs?15
The relationship between value-based actions, psychological distress and well-being: A multilevel diary study14
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for women living with Vulvodynia: A single-case experimental design study of a treatment delivered online13
Interrupting internalized racial oppression: A community based ACT intervention13
The Persian Personalized Psychological Flexibility Index (P-PPFI): Psychometric properties in a general population sample of Iranians13
Embracing complex models: Exploratory network analyses of psychological (In)Flexibility processes and unique associations with psychiatric symptomology and quality of life13
Post-traumatic growth in people experiencing high post-traumatic stress during the COVID-19 pandemic: The protective role of psychological flexibility12
The moderating effects of psychological flexibility and psychological inflexibility on the relationship between climate concern and climate-related distress12
Relating, orienting and evoking functions in an IRAP study involving emotional pictographs (emojis) used in electronic messages12
The relationships between valued living and depression and anxiety: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression12
Assessment methods in single case design studies of psychological treatments for chronic pain: A scoping review12
Self-compassion buffers the effects of perfectionistic self-presentation on social media on wellbeing11
Adverse childhood experiences and adult psychopathological symptoms: The moderating role of dispositional mindfulness11
Chinese validation of the Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire (BEAQ) in college students11
Does it help to talk about it? Co-rumination, internalizing symptoms, and committed action during the COVID-19 global pandemic11
A brief pilot self-compassion intervention for women with overweight/obesity and internalized weight bias: Feasibility, acceptability, and future directions11
Coping styles mediate the association between psychological inflexibility and psychological functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic: A crucial role of meaning-centered coping11
A call for ACTion: A systematic review of empirical evidence for the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with LGBTQI+ individuals11
Exploring the effectiveness of mindfulness-based and third wave interventions in addressing self-stigma, shame and their impacts on psychosocial functioning: A systematic review11
Impact of Acceptance and Commitment Training on psychological flexibility and burnout in medical education11
Acceptance and commitment therapy interventions in secondary schools and their impact on students' mental health and well-being: A systematic review11
Resilience mediates the cross-sectional relationship between mindfulness and positive mental health in early adolescence11
The impact of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on quality of life and symptom improvement among chronic health conditions: A systematic review and meta-analysis10
An experimental investigation of the effects of perspective-taking on emotional discomfort, cognitive fusion and self-compassion10
Health, well-being, and persisting symptoms in the pandemic: What is the role of psychological flexibility?10
Coherence and the merging of relational classes in self-organizing networks: Extending Relational Density Theory10
In-person and online-delivered acceptance and commitment therapy for hoarding disorder: A multiple baseline study9
Can a smartphone application help Hispanic/Latinx adults quit smoking? A randomized trial secondary analysis9
Acceptance and commitment group therapy among Saudi Muslim females with mental health disorders9
Acceptance and values clarification versus cognitive restructuring and relaxation: A randomized controlled trial of ultra-brief non-expert-delivered coaching interventions for social resilience9
Acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for adolescents with type 1 diabetes: A randomized controlled trial9
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)9
A trauma-focused intensive outpatient program integrating elements of exposure therapy with acceptance and commitment therapy: Program development and initial outcomes9
Acceptance and commitment therapy for adolescents and adults with neurofibromatosis type 1, plexiform neurofibromas, and chronic pain: Results of a randomized controlled trial8
Investigating the role of psychological inflexibility, mindfulness, and self-compassion in PTSD8
The differences between acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral therapy: A three-level meta-analysis8
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for eating disorders: A systematic review of intervention studies and call to action8
Associations of interpersonal and intrapersonal emotion regulation strategies to suicidal ideation and suicide attempts8
Exploring the relationship between psychological flexibility and self-report and task-based measures of cognitive flexibility8
Adolescents with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes: Psychological flexibility is associated with the glycemic control, quality of life and depressive symptoms8
Is giving receiving? The influence of autonomy on the association between prosocial behavior and well-being8
Alcohol, trait anger, and psychological flexibility: A laboratory investigation of intimate partner violence perpetration7
Acceptance and commitment therapy for insomnia and sleep quality: A systematic review and meta-analysis7
Psychological flexibility and inflexibility in obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions, disability, and quality of life: An online longitudinal study7
Intolerance of uncertainty and psychological symptoms among people with a missing loved one: Emotion regulation difficulties and psychological inflexibility as mediators7
A pilot randomized controlled trial of culturally-adapted, telehealth group acceptance and commitment therapy for Iranian adolescent females reporting symptoms of anxiety7
Growth in crisis: A mixed methods study of lessons from our patients with chronic pain during the COVID-19 pandemic7
The current status of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in Iran: A systematic narrative review7
Gender differences in multidisciplinary pain rehabilitation: The mediating role of pain acceptance6
Psychometric properties and measurement invariance of the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory- Persian (MPFI-P): An extensive investigation of long and short versions in community and6
A psychometric validation of contextual cognitive behavioral therapy-informed measures with racially and ethnically diverse adults6
Exploring the addition of self-compassion skills training to a behavioral weight loss program delivered using video conferencing software6
Acceptance-based telephone support around the time of transition to secondary progressive multiple sclerosis: A feasibility randomised controlled trial6
A systematic review of inclusion of minoritized populations in randomized controlled trials of acceptance and commitment therapy6
An exploratory analysis of gender stereotyping using the theoretical framework of relational density theory6
Virtual reality acceptance and commitment therapy intervention for social and public speaking anxiety: A randomized controlled trial6
Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of personalized psychological flexibility index (C-PPFI) in college students6
A randomized controlled trial of group-based acceptance and commitment therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder6
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Promote Recovery from suicidal crises: A Randomized Controlled Acceptability and Feasibility Trial of ACT for life6
How do people with acquired brain injury interpret the Valued Living Questionnaire? A cognitive interviewing study6
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 student6
Measuring ACT in context: Challenges and future directions6
Psychometric properties of the Psy-flex scale: A validation study in a community sample in Korea5
When is your distress harder to tolerate? A qualitative analysis of situations in which distress tolerance is impaired and strengthened5
Developmental trajectories of experiential avoidance and depressive symptoms and association to health behaviors among adolescents during brief guided online acceptance and commitment therapy5
Tracing the missteps of stepped care: Improving the implementation of stepped care through contextual behavioral science5
Live with your body – participants’ reflections on an acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for patients with residual eating disorder symptoms5
Predicting sleep quality and insomnia severity using the components of the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) model: A new perspective5
Factors predicting quality of life in family carers of people with dementia: The role of psychological inflexibility5
Automatic thoughts: Understanding the precursors of self-concealment within the psychological flexibility framework5
ACT in the workplace: A meta-analytic examination of randomized controlled trials5
Testing the applicability of idionomic statistics in longitudinal studies: The example of ‘doing what matters’5
Daily changes in state emotion regulation abilities predict positive and negative affect5
Experiential avoidance and the misinterpretation of intrusions as prospective predictors of postpartum obsessive-compulsive symptoms in first-time parents5
Mechanisms of change in an Internet-Based ACT study for depression in China5
Testing Functional Analytic Psychotherapy's mediational model of change in social connectedness for people with fear of intimacy5
The CompACT-10: Development and validation of a Comprehensive assessment of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes short-form in representative UK samples5
Roads less travelled to self-forgiveness: Can psychological flexibility overcome chronic guilt/shame to achieve genuine self-forgiveness?5
Investigating cognitive fusion, mindfulness and experiential avoidance in relation to psychosis-like symptoms in the general population5
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 trial5
Does Cognitive Fusion show up similarly across two behavioral health samples? Psychometric properties and invariance of the Greek–Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (G-CFQ)5
Psychological flexibility as a predictor of mental health outcomes in parents of pre-school children during the COVID-19 pandemic: A two-year longitudinal study4
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for inpatients with psychosis –an acceptability and feasibility single case AB designed study4
The “how” of exposures: Examining the relationship between exposure parameters and outcomes in obsessive-compulsive disorder4
Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on self-care, psychological symptoms, and quality of life in patients with cardiovascular disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis4
Truce: Feasibility and acceptability of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-based intervention for adolescents and young adults impacted by parental cancer4
Intensive outpatient acceptance and commitment therapy with exposure and response prevention for adolescents4
Further validation of the 18-item Portuguese CompACT scale using a multi-sample design: Confirmatory factor analysis and correlates of psychological flexibility4
Impact of acceptance and commitment therapy on physical and psychological symptoms in advanced gastrointestinal cancer patients and caregivers: Secondary results of a pilot randomized trial4
In support of reacquainting functional contextualism and interbehaviorism4
Real-time fluctuations in mindful awareness, willingness, and values clarity, and their associations with craving and dietary lapse among those seeking weight loss4
Disentangling trait and state psychological inflexibility: A longitudinal multilevel approach4
Low standards yet disappointed: ADHD symptoms and experiential avoidance in college students4
Acceptability and feasibility of a gamified digital eating disorder early-intervention program (AcceptME) based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)4
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for caregivers of children with chronic conditions: A mixed methods systematic review (MMSR) of efficacy, process, and acceptance.4
The effects of loneliness and psychological flexibility on veterans’ substance use and physical and mental health functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic4
The importance of idiographic and functionally analytic strategies in the unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders4
Community Initiated Care: A blue-print for the practical realization of contextual behavioral science4
Examining the structure of distress tolerance: Are behavioral and self-report indicators assessing the same construct?4
Does the Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire measure more than frequency of negative thoughts?4
Mindfulness, parenting behavior, and children's mental health: An investigation among diverse, low-income mothers of preschool aged children4
Differential Crel and Cfunc acquisition through stimulus pairing4
Through the extended evolutionary meta-model, and what ACT found there: ACT as a process-based therapy4
The impact of psychological flexibility in the relationship between discrimination and internalized transnegativity among transgender and gender expansive adults3
Randomized-controlled trial examining differing content of ABA therapy delivered to autistic children3
Aggressiveness in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder as assessed by the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure3
The ACT trained physical therapist: Psychologically flexible, resilient, and armed with evidence-based tools3
The impact of psychological flexibility on family dynamics amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal perspective3
Psychological flexibility and the Eudaimonic Activity Model: Testing associations among psychological flexibility, need satisfaction, and subjective well-being3
Emotional labor and emotional exhaustion in psychologists: Preliminary evidence for the protective role of self-compassion and psychological flexibility3
Magis – A magical adventure: Using a mobile game to deliver an ACT intervention for elementary schoolchildren in classroom settings3
Emotion regulation and memory in response to a trauma analogue: An online experimental comparison of humor and acceptance3
Implementation of ACT in correctional and forensic settings3
Confirmatory factor analysis of the Comprehensive Assessment of acceptance and Commitment Therapy (CompACT) in active-duty military personnel3
Psychological inflexibility mediates the relationship between conformity to masculine norms and depression: Preliminary support for a transdiagnostic approach to working therapeutically with men3
Values intervention as an establishing operation for approach in the presence of aversive stimuli3
The effect of acceptance and commitment training on improving physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the experiential avoidance in caregiving questionnaire (EACQ)3
Cognitive fusion and treatment response to depression in caregivers of relatives with dementia.3
Ways of responding to body image threats: Development of the Body Image Flexibility and Inflexibility Scale for youth3
Linking process to outcome in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Evaluating the behavioral mechanism of change of a process-based therapy3
The role of psychological flexibility in palliative care3
Behaving versus thinking positively: When the benefits of cognitive reappraisal are contingent on satisfying basic psychological needs3
Experiential avoidance and depression predict values engagement among people in treatment for borderline personality disorder3
The empowerment plan: Enhancing the safety plan with a CBS approach to repertoire expansion3
Ensuring interdisciplinary partnerships and commitment to Contextual Behavioral Science (CBS) principles among diverse scholars who serve diverse communities3
The effect of SMART relational skills training on intelligence quotients: Controlling for individual differences in attentional skills and baseline IQ3
Exploring the interpersonal consequences of adverse childhood experiences in college students3
The role of psychological inflexibility in adolescent satisfaction with the educational track and school dropout intentions3
Curriculum-based yoga and acceptance and commitment training intervention for undergraduate students: A mixed-methods investigation3
Forwarding the ACBS Task Force recommendations: The case for the functional-cognitive framework and out-of-sample prediction2
Scalability of an ACT-Based strategy for improving well-being in health care providers: A mix-method and preliminary evaluation of efficacy2
Targeting social connection in the context of Trauma: Functional outcomes and mechanisms of change2
Brief acceptance and commitment therapy added to medication management during acute alcohol detoxification: A pilot randomized controlled effectiveness trial2
Characterizing the effects of self-compassion interventions on anxiety: Meta-analytic evidence from randomized controlled studies2
The efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions in promoting resilience: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials2
A fresh lens on psychological flexibility: Using network analysis and the Unified Flexibility and Mindfulness Model to uncover paths to wellbeing and distress2
Commentary: Person-specific, multivariate, and dynamic analytic approaches to actualize ACBS task force recommendations for contextual behavioral science2
Exploring the relationships between rule-governed behavior and adherence to guidelines aiming to reduce the spread of COVID-192
Using group-based interactive video teleconferencing to make self-compassion more accessible: A randomized controlled trial2
Can peer-tutored psychological flexibility training facilitate physical activity among adults with overweight?2
Measuring psychological flexibility: The cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the AAQ for substance abuse among Spanish speaking population in correctional and community settings2
Psychological inflexibility as a mediator of the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and dissociation2
Effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy for addictive behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis2
The role of psychological flexibility and socioeconomic status in adolescent identity development2
The clinician, the clinician-researcher, and the contextual behavioral science research agenda2
Measurement of psychological flexibility in the context of parenting: A scoping review2
An online contextual schema therapy workshop for social anxiety symptoms – A randomized controlled trial2
Racial microaggressions and trauma symptoms in a black American sample: The moderating role of self-compassion2
The relation of grit to weight loss maintenance outcomes2
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder in a Brazilian context: Treatment of three cases2
Verbal relations in the context of university experience: An exploratory analysis using a relational density theoretical framework and case example2
Cultural adaptation of ACT to support caregivers of autistic Latino children: A pilot study2
The relationship between parental stress and psychological adjustment of the children: The role of parental psychological flexibility as a mediator2
Diversity-related factors in research mentorship and publishing in the ACBS community and the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science2
On the structure of relational responding2
Group acceptance and commitment therapy for adolescent anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis2
Preliminary findings on processes of change and moderators for cognitive defusion and restructuring delivered through mobile apps2
Enhancing supervisory relationships with values and committed action training2
Development of an acceptance based PrEP intervention (ACTPrEP) to engage young black MSM in the South utilizing the Adaptome Model of intervention adaptation2
Psychometric properties of the engaged living scale (ELS) Spanish version in a large sample of Spanish pilgrims2
Machine learning advances the classification and prediction of responding from psychophysiological reactions2
Examining psychological inflexibility as a mediator of postpartum depressive symptoms: A longitudinal observational study of perinatal depression2
The theoretical basis of a functional-descriptive approach to qualitative research in CBS: With a focus on narrative analysis and practice2
Caring for someone with an acquired brain injury: The role of psychological flexibility2
Ecological momentary assessment of state fluctuations in mindfulness and symptoms in psychotic disorders2
Preliminary efficacy of an acceptance-based diabetes education (ACT-DE) programme for people with type 2 diabetes on diabetes distress and self-care behaviours: A pilot randomised controlled trial2
Acceptability of an adapted mindfulness and acceptance-based intervention to support adolescents with HIV: A qualitative study with Ugandan health care providers2
What is distress tolerance? Presenting a need for conceptual clarification based on qualitative findings2
Leveraging values to promote adherence to endocrine therapy among breast cancer survivors: A mixed-methods investigation2
Age differences in acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic pain2
Applying concepts of relational density theory to climate related consumer behavior: A contextual extension study2
Self and rules in a sample of adults experiencing homelessness: Relationships to shame, well-being, and psychological inflexibility2
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