Mindfulness Skills and Psychological Inflexibility: Two Useful Tools for a Clinical Assessment for Adolescents with Internalizing Behaviors

摘要: Two processes that have been largely studied in relation to psychological wellbeing during adolescence are mindfulness and flexibility. Child Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM) Avoidance Fusion Questionnaire for Youth (AFQ-Y) specifically developed children adolescents their items built assess specific processes. This study aims identify cut-offs detecting with internalizing disorders, describing behavioral repertoires within participants high Psychological Inflexibility poor Skills. Participants (N = 1336), aged between 11 18, were recruited. completed the Italian versions of CAMM, AFQ-Y, Self-Report (YSR). To determine CAMM AFQ-Y discriminating disorders two receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses performed. Furthermore, homogeneous groups Classification Tree Analyses (CTA) The identified 24 AFQ-Y. CTA showed low Skills share a feature: namely, depressive symptoms. However, social withdrawal seems be associated only Skills, while somatic symptoms Inflexibility. potential uses research clinical practice drawn. short simple measures make them accessible school-based primary prevention setting.