Poster 30

[P-30-02] Are related the Psychological Inflexibility and their subprocess with Psychopathological symptoms in adolescents with and without psychiatric care?

*Ernesto Magallon-Neri^1,2, Sandra Mateus-Gómez¹, Josep Lluís Matalí³, Elena Flores³, Daniel Ilzarbe⁴, Rosa Díaz⁴ (1.Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology. Faculty of Psychology. University of Barcelona(Spain), 2.Institute of Neurosciences, UB. Group of Studies about Measure Invariance and Analysis of Change (GEIMAC) 2021SGR01071(Spain), 3.Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology Department of Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona(Spain), 4.Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology. Institute of Neurosciences. Hospital Clínic Universitari of Barcelona(Spain))

Keywords:

psychological inflexibility,psychopathological symptoms,adolescents

Objective: To examine the relationships between different processes linked to psychological inflexibility (cognitive fusion and experience avoidance) with a global index of psychopathological symptoms. Method: in a sample of adolescents (n= 248; 58,8% women; 136 community subjects and 102 psychiatric patients) from Barcelona Spain, were applied: the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth (AFQ-Y) and the Symptom Assessment Questionnaire (SA-45) to analyze their Global Severity Index (GSI) of psychopathological symptoms. Results: significant correlations were identified (r = .68 in community adolescents and r = .72 in clinical sample; p < .001), between psychological inflexibility and GSI. Also, cognitive fusion and experience avoidance were related significantly to GSI. Subsequently, linear regression analysis identified a high capacity to explain the GSI starting from psychological inflexibility and their subprocesses, in community adolescents the model with these three variables explains (R² adjusted = .505; F = 46.84; p < .001) and for clinical sample (R² adjusted = .538; F = 40.16; p < .001). Discussion: The concept of psychological inflexibility is partially related to global psychiatric distress; therefore, this would be a good indicator for screening psychopathology not focusing only on overtly pathological symptoms and could be useful for clinical and community adolescent samples.