Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II.
AAQ-II
- What it measures
- Psychological inflexibility / experiential avoidance - the core process construct of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Length and format
- 7 (AAQ-I 9). 7-pt Likert (never true to always true) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- 30+ langs approx incl. ES, PT, FR, DE, IT, NL, SV, ZH, JA, KO, TR, FA, PL, EL
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Bond FW, Hayes SC, Baer RA, et al. Preliminary psychometric properties of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II: a revised measure of psychological inflexibility and experiential avoidance. Behav Ther. 2011;42(4):676-688.
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