The current study was to explore the longitudinal relation of therapeutic factors and the longitudinal effect of these factors on depression. Specifically, the purpose of this study was to examine the longitudinal relation between decentering and expe...
The current study was to explore the longitudinal relation of therapeutic factors and the longitudinal effect of these factors on depression. Specifically, the purpose of this study was to examine the longitudinal relation between decentering and experiential avoidance. Also, This study examined the longitudinal mediation to identify the effect of decentering and experiential avoidance on depression. For this study, 195 university students completed self-report questionnaires three times at 8 week interval. To test the hypothesis, autoregressive cross-lagged models were applied to the data. The result showed that decentering and experiential avoidance were negatively associated each other. Moreover, Although time 1 decentering does not have direct effects on time 3 depression, experiential avoidance showed significant mediating effects on the relation between decentering and depression. The implications and limitations of this study were discussed along with suggestions for further research.