Screening for Psychological Inflexibility: Initial Validation of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth as a School Mental Health Screener

Autor/in	Renshaw, Tyler L.
Titel	Screening for Psychological Inflexibility: Initial Validation of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth as a School Mental Health Screener
Quelle	In: Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 35 (2017) 5, S.482-493 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0734-2829
DOI	10.1177/0734282916644096
Schlagwörter	Psychological Characteristics; Screening Tests; Questionnaires; Test Validity; Mental Health; Depression (Psychology); Anxiety; High School Students; Urban Schools; Test Reliability; Classification; Measures (Individuals); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Statistical Analysis; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; Beck Anxiety Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Screening-Verfahren; Fragebogen; Testvalidität; Psychohygiene; Angst; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Testreliabilität; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Messdaten; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	The present study reports on the initial validation of the eight-item version of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth (AFQ-Y8) as a school mental health screener for identifying clinical-level depression and anxiety caseness within a sample of urban high school students (N = 219). Results indicated that responses to the AFQ-Y8 yielded better data-model fit and comparable internal consistency and convergent validity in relation to responses to the longer, 17-item version of the measure. Findings from receiver operating curve (ROC) analyses showed that scores derived from the AFQ-Y8 had excellent discrimination ability for correctly classifying students with and without clinical-level depression (area under the curve [AUC] = 0.91) and anxiety (AUC = 0.92), and that a cutoff score of =15 yielded optimal sensitivity (0.86, 0.92) and specificity (0.88, 0.87) for accomplishing these purposes. Taken together, findings suggest the AFQ-Y8 is a technically adequate instrument for both measuring psychological inflexibility and classifying students with clinical-level internalizing problems. Implications for future research and practice are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01