Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Corrigendum to “Contextual-compassion training for borderline personality with long lasting symptoms: A randomized clinical trial” [Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 34 (2024) 2–10/100846]53
Psychological flexibility and the Eudaimonic Activity Model: Testing associations among psychological flexibility, need satisfaction, and subjective well-being50
A fresh lens on psychological flexibility: Using network analysis and the Unified Flexibility and Mindfulness Model to uncover paths to wellbeing and distress40
Remediating rigid rule-following in subclinical obsessive-compulsive disorder using a brief mindfulness task: A case-control pilot study38
Cognitive fusion and treatment response to depression in caregivers of relatives with dementia.36
Building a digital tool to support focused acceptance and commitment therapy practitioners in New Zealand primary care: A qualitative exploration of user needs to guide software feature development32
Mindfulness and cognitive emotion regulation in pediatric misophonia28
Truce: Outcomes and mechanisms of change of a seven-week acceptance and commitment therapy program for young people whose parent has cancer27
Rule-based insensitivity to contingencies according to self-reported generalized pliance/tracking and the instruction functions27
Predicting sleep quality and insomnia severity using the components of the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) model: A new perspective26
An acceptance and commitment therapy-based intervention for opioid use disorder risk in individuals with cancer: A treatment development study26
Exploring the fundamental processes underlying interventions designed to promote athletes’ performance and well-being: A contextual behavioral science perspective26
A call for ACTion: A systematic review of empirical evidence for the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with LGBTQI+ individuals23
An online contextual schema therapy workshop for social anxiety symptoms – A randomized controlled trial23
The Mindful Healthcare Scale (MHS): Development and initial validation22
A multi-sample investigation of psychological flexibility processes and reactive and proactive functions of aggression22
Existential therapies and the extended evolutionary meta-model: Turning existential philosophy into process-based therapy21
Community Initiated Care: A blue-print for the practical realization of contextual behavioral science21
The ACT trained physical therapist: Psychologically flexible, resilient, and armed with evidence-based tools20
Editorial Board20
Changes in university students’ behaviour and study burnout risk during ACT-based online course intervention: A mixed methods study20
Examining item content across nine psychological (in)flexibility scales: What do they measure?20
Effects of workplace acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) programs on psychological flexibility's subprocesses: A systematic review19
Health, well-being, and persisting symptoms in the pandemic: What is the role of psychological flexibility?19
The interplay among BMI, body dissatisfaction, body appreciation, and body image inflexibility in Chinese young adults: A network perspective19
Monitoring change in heart rate variability following acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic pain: Results of a randomized controlled trial for individuals with neurofibromatosis type 119
A mixed methods study investigating alexithymia, experiential avoidance, and psychological distress: Insights into men with high externally oriented thinking19
Associations of psychological inflexibility with posttraumatic stress disorder and adherence to COVID-19 control measures among refugees in Uganda: The moderating role of coping strategies18
Examining the effects of process-based therapy: A multiple baseline study18
Stress and mental health: The role of emotional schemas and psychological flexibility in the context of COVID-1917
Psychometric properties of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth (AFQ-Y8) in socioeconomically disadvantaged Chilean adolescents16
Implementing the ACBS task force agenda16
Perspectives on an integrated acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness meditation program: A qualitative study of veterans with chronic pain15
Measuring psychological inflexibility in educational settings: Development and validation of the KIBS-Ed with a psychotherapy training sample15
Exploring the role of cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance in predicting smartphone use among medical university students15
Investigating the delivery of an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) smartphone app intervention on symptomology in adult IBS patients: A feasibility study15
Network analysis of psychological flexibility and sleep dysfunction in college students: Identifying key targets for ACT-based interventions15
The effect of brief acceptance and commitment training on values-based behaviors of Japanese parents of children with autism15
A systematic review of inclusion of minoritized populations in randomized controlled trials of acceptance and commitment therapy14
Perceptions and experiences of acceptance and commitment therapy among people with mental disorders: A qualitative systematic review14
ACT in the workplace: A meta-analytic examination of randomized controlled trials14
Efficacy of ACT for parents of children with special health care needs: Preliminary findings from Malaysia14
Capturing the context of drug use for college students: A contextual behavioural science informed qualitative analysis of harm reduction practices using network feedback loops simulation modelling14
Further validation of the 18-item Portuguese CompACT scale using a multi-sample design: Confirmatory factor analysis and correlates of psychological flexibility14
Brief transdiagnostic group Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for acute inpatients with complex mental health conditions: A randomised pilot study using an active social control13
The effect of acceptance and commitment therapy on the psychological flexibility and inflexibility of undergraduate students: A systematic review and three-level meta-analysis13
Estimating the effect of basic behavioral processes (access to reinforcers and experiential avoidance) on emotional disorders as transdiagnostic variables: A systematic review13
Physiological, behavioral, and self-report outcomes of acceptance- and regulation-based exposure for intrusive thoughts12
Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of personalized psychological flexibility index (C-PPFI) in college students12
Acceptance and commitment training for reducing burnout in medical students during a clinical clerkship in psychiatry and palliative care: A pilot study12
Effectiveness of ACT-based intervention in compliance with the model for sustainable mental health: A cluster randomized control trial in a group of older adults12
Editorial Board11
Magis – A magical adventure: Using a mobile game to deliver an ACT intervention for elementary schoolchildren in classroom settings11
Editorial Board11
Is the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory Short Form valid for ecological momentary assessment? A preliminary psychometric investigation11
Using the ACT matrix to improve sleep: A practical guide for implementing the "what" and the "how" of sleep hygiene11
Testing the network centrality hypothesis within process-based acceptance and commitment therapy – A single case experiment utilizing perceived causal networks11
Distinct pathways to well-being: Exploring valued action and mood among stoics and non-stoics10
The relation between ADHD symptoms and alcohol and cannabis use outcomes in a cross-sectional study of college students: The mediating role of experiential avoidance10
Processes of change in online acceptance and commitment therapy for hoarding10
Corrigendum to ‘Is the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory Short Form valid for ecological momentary assessment? A preliminary psychometric investigation’ [Journal of Contextual Behav10
Process-based therapy in an interdisciplinary framework for pain recovery: from psychological processes to interdisciplinary processes10
The effect of SMART relational skills training on intelligence quotients: Controlling for individual differences in attentional skills and baseline IQ10
The Turkish validation of the short form of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire (AFQ-Y8): Factor structure, measurement invariance, and incremental validity10
Verbal relations in the context of university experience: An exploratory analysis using a relational density theoretical framework and case example10
From mistakes to mastery: An idiographic microanalytical study comparing processes related to effective and ineffective outcomes in behavioral interventions10
Executive functioning and relational framing in verbal adults10
Assessing psychological inflexibility in text: An examination of the inflexitext program10
Contextual approach to emotional and psychological support for Malaysian adolescents: Feasibility and pilot outcomes9
Symbolic or derived generalization of fear and avoidance in humans: A systematic review9
Shared trauma: Examining the moderating role of parental psychological flexibility and self-compassion on PTSD and distress in refugee families9
Targeting social connection in the context of Trauma: Functional outcomes and mechanisms of change9
Food Thought Suppression Inventory: Item response theory and measurement invariance in Portuguese adults9
Introducing article numbering to Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science9
Effects of an ACT-based intervention on university students’ self-compassion and psychological well-being9
Effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy for addictive behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis8
The impact of functional class and depressive symptomatology on rule-based insensitivity8
Forwarding the ACBS Task Force recommendations: The case for the functional-cognitive framework and out-of-sample prediction8
Chinese version of the simplified psychological flexibility scale-6 (C-Psy-Flex): Study of its psychometric properties from the perspective of classical test theory and network analysis8
On the measurement of relational responding8
Limited effects of phone coaching in an RCT of online self-guided acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic pain8
Telehealth acceptance and commitment therapy for adolescents with transdiagnostic health-related anxiety: A pilot randomized controlled trial8
The impact of psychological flexibility on family dynamics amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal perspective8
Toward empirical process-based case conceptualization: An idionomic network examination of the process-based assessment tool7
Content validity and perceived utility of a self-help online acceptance and commitment therapy program focused on repetitive negative thinking7
Applying concepts of relational density theory to climate related consumer behavior: A contextual extension study7
Web-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for adults with type 1 diabetes: A single case experimental design (SCED)7
Third wave behavioral interventions for individuals with Dementia: A systematic review7
Minority stress, mental health, and mindfulness and self-compassion as moderators among young sexual minority men: A moderated structural equation analysis7
Smartphone app-delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for post-traumatic stress disorder and gambling harm in veterans: A pilot feasibility study7
Measurement invariance and discriminant validity of the Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire across five Spanish-speaking countries7
Group acceptance and commitment therapy for adolescent anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis7
Advancing the assessment of psychological flexibility: Development and validation of a novel context-sensitive measure in people with chronic physical illness7
The CompACT-10: Development and validation of a Comprehensive assessment of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes short-form in representative UK samples7
Taking ACTion for anxiety and depression: A pilot study of a brief virtual Acceptance and commitment therapy group in primary care7
Through the extended evolutionary meta-model, and what ACT found there: ACT as a process-based therapy7
A systematic review and narrative synthesis of the complex interplay between psychological flexibility and sleep health7
Psychological inflexibility in terms of eating behaviors among individuals seeking treatment for comorbid affective vulnerabilities and weight-related behaviors7
Diversity-related factors in research mentorship and publishing in the ACBS community and the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science7
Defusion techniques on self-referential thought in laboratory-based experimental research: A meta-analysis of believability and discomfort outcomes7
A call for qualitative research in Contextual Behavioral Science7
“Finding your values is important. You only die once.” - Analysing goal-talk in incarcerated adolescents struggling with substance use from a Relational Frame Theory perspective6
Oncovox: A randomised controlled trial of a web-based acceptance and commitment therapy for breast cancer patients6
Emotion dysregulation and psychological inflexibility in adolescents: Discriminant validity and associations with internalizing symptoms and functional impairment6
The effects of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on psychological and physical outcomes among cancer patients and survivors: An umbrella review6
Measurement of psychological flexibility in the context of parenting: A scoping review6
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) among U.S. veterans: A systematic review6
In the shadow of COVID-19: A randomized controlled online ACT trial promoting adolescent psychological flexibility and self-compassion6
Psychometric properties of the Psy-flex scale: A validation study in a community sample in Korea6
Initial steps in developing acceptance and commitment therapy for moral injury among combat veterans: Two pilot studies6
Disentangling trait and state psychological inflexibility: A longitudinal multilevel approach6
Confucian-informed ACT for psychological flexibility, mental health, and sleep in college students: A randomized controlled trial6
Optimizing process-based therapy: A Boruta-driven approach to Identifying key clinical outcomes in a Swedish validation of the process-based assessment tool (PBAT)6
Supporting employers and their employees with mental hEalth conditions to remain eNgaged and producTive at wORk (MENTOR): A feasibility randomised controlled trial5
The development and validation of the experiential avoidance rating scale (EARS): A self-report questionnaire that might actually measure experiential avoidance5
Psychological flexibility, parental competence, and prosociality in caregivers of children with special health care needs: A network analysis of family functioning and child outcomes5
Exploring the interpersonal consequences of adverse childhood experiences in college students5
Attachment, emotion, and change: Emotionally focused individual therapy (EFIT) within a process-based therapy (PBT) framework5
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for pediatric chronic non-cancer pain: A systematic review5
Struggles and solutions in psychological research with unaccompanied minors: Reflections from the field5
On the structure of relational responding5
The relationship between parental stress and psychological adjustment of the children: The role of parental psychological flexibility as a mediator5
Momentary appraisals of uncontrollable and unpredictable events predict caregiver well-being: Evidence from an experience sampling study5
Characterizing the effects of self-compassion interventions on anxiety: Meta-analytic evidence from randomized controlled studies5
Effects of acceptance and commitment therapy-based intervention on fatigue interference and health-related quality of life in patients with advanced lung cancer: A randomised controlled trial5
A pilot randomized controlled trial of culturally-adapted, telehealth group acceptance and commitment therapy for Iranian adolescent females reporting symptoms of anxiety5
Masculinity, social connection, and loneliness: A contextual behavioral science approach to men's social relationships and intimacy5
The relative importance of transdiagnostic factors associated with problematic smartphone use5
A two-arm parallel group randomized feasibility trial of a mobile application-delivered mindfulness exercise in distressed adults: Dropping anchor presented as an annotated image sequence5
Functional connectivity correlates of psychological flexibility: A resting-state fMRI study of the default mode and dorsal attention networks5
The current status of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in Iran: A systematic narrative review5
Acceptability of an adapted mindfulness and acceptance-based intervention to support adolescents with HIV: A qualitative study with Ugandan health care providers4
Enhancing supervisory relationships with values and committed action training4
Longitudinal associations between perceived coparenting and Chinese adolescents’ wisdom: The role of peer attachment and psychological flexibility4
Behaving versus thinking positively: When the benefits of cognitive reappraisal are contingent on satisfying basic psychological needs4
Mindful self-compassion program adapted for professional caregivers of juvenile detention facilities: A pilot mixed-method study4
Consumer co-design as a framework for enhancing a novel self-guided online program to reduce overconsumption4
The experiences of family caregiver and clinician facilitators implementing a co-delivered acceptance and commitment training (ACT) intervention4
Increasing workforce psychological flexibility through organization-wide training: Influence on stress resilience, job burnout, and performance4
Using group-based interactive video teleconferencing to make self-compassion more accessible: A randomized controlled trial4
Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) offers unique procedures for acceptance of emotion and may contribute to the process-based therapy movement4
Acceptance and commitment therapy in parents of children with cancer at psychosocial risk: A randomized multiple baseline evaluation4
Contextual behavioral supervision: A Delphi study4
Latent profiles of processes in acceptance and commitment therapy and their associations with eating disorder symptoms among adult women4
ACT and the Kyoto School of Philosophy:Interdisciplinary dialogues on personhood, ethics, and becoming4
Training to code therapeutic interactions in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: The utility of a video-based Behavior Skills Training4
The relationship between psychosis and psychological flexibility and other acceptance and commitment therapy processes: A systematic review and meta-analysis4
Confirmatory factor analysis of the Comprehensive Assessment of acceptance and Commitment Therapy (CompACT) in active-duty military personnel4
The efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions in promoting resilience: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials4
Acceptability of ACT group intervention for adolescents with type 1 diabetes4
Suicidality, gender identity-related stressors, and psychological flexibility among transgender and non-binary adults4
Weight stigma and healthcare avoidance among women with obesity: The moderating roles of body image-related psychological inflexibility and cognitive fusion4
A systematic review of null hypothesis significance testing, sample sizes, and statistical power in research using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure4
Applied knowledge of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Developing and assessing the utility of a Situational Judgement Test (SJT)4
Heavy drinking and psychological intimate partner aggression (IPA): The interactive effects of experiential avoidance and trait anger4
An idiographic comparison of ACT focused on repetitive negative thinking versus non-directive therapy in child generalized anxiety4
Examining psychological flexibility in unaccompanied refugee minors: A network analysis4
Randomized-controlled trial examining differing content of ABA therapy delivered to autistic children4
An acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness group intervention for the psychological and physical well-being of adults with body mass indexes in the overweight or obese range: The Mind&Li3
Practice matters: The role of mindfulness skills in emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder3
A randomized controlled trial comparing two guided self-help Acceptance and Commitment Therapy formats to education on pain3
Evaluating the core processes of a hybrid trauma-informed acceptance and commitment therapy intervention for college students3
Development of an acceptance based PrEP intervention (ACTPrEP) to engage young black MSM in the South utilizing the Adaptome Model of intervention adaptation3
Acceptance and commitment therapy for couples: A systematic review and meta-analysis3
Contextual-compassion training for borderline personality disorder with long lasting symptoms: A randomized clinical trial3
Combining acceptance and commitment therapy with adventure therapy to face vulnerability: Examples and insights from a sailing experience3
Adolescents’ psychological flexibility and non-suicidal self-injury: Exploring between-person and within-person association3
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for distress in university students with chronic physical health conditions: a single-arm feasibility study of an app-based intervention3
Increasing ingestible allergy safety skills in autistic children using derived relational training for effective health and safety training3
Understanding suicidal ideation through psychological flexibility and inflexibility: A network analysis perspective3
Corrigendum to “Feasibility and effect of a self-help online acceptance and commitment therapy program focused on repetitive negative thinking for Colombian young women” [Journal of Contextual Behavio3
Assessing acceptance and commitment therapy for adolescent mental health: Single-case A-B design with high temporal density assessments3
Truce: Feasibility and acceptability of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-based intervention for adolescents and young adults impacted by parental cancer3
Ecological momentary assessment of state fluctuations in mindfulness and symptoms in psychotic disorders3
Exploring psychological flexibility as in-treatment behaviour during internet-delivered acceptance and commitment therapy for paediatric chronic pain: Occurrence and relation to outcome3
Low standards yet disappointed: ADHD symptoms and experiential avoidance in college students3
Training temporal relational framing in young children3
The theoretical basis of a functional-descriptive approach to qualitative research in CBS: With a focus on narrative analysis and practice3
Publicly available acceptance and commitment therapy mobile apps: Systematic search and assessment3
Commentary: Person-specific, multivariate, and dynamic analytic approaches to actualize ACBS task force recommendations for contextual behavioral science3
Perspective taking reduces the correspondence bias: A systematically replication of Hooper et al. (2015)3
Profiles of psychological flexibility in Japan: A conceptual replication3
Time series machine learning for idionomic process-based treatment planning: A tutorial on tsBoruta3
Global and LMIC insights into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): A bibliometric study from 1998 to 20233
“Becoming a values-driven self-care user”: Development of a group intervention for health and helping professional students3
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