Association between Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) processes and depressive symptoms and pain interference in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Rehabilitation Psychology, Vol 67(4), Nov 2022, 602-609; doi:10.1037/rep0000466Purpose/Objective: To explore the extent to which Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) core processes are related to depressive symptoms and pain interference in a sample of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Research Method/Design: 159 individuals with an SCI completed self-report surveys of 6 core processes of ACT and of 2 quality-of-life indicators (Spinal Cord Injury-Quality of Life [SCI-QOL] Depressive Symptoms and Pain Interference). Hierarchical linear regressions were used to analyze the amount of variance in depressive symptom and pain interference accounted for by ACT as a comprehensive construct and each individual ACT component. Data were collected specifically to examine these research questions. Results: Analyses revealed that ACT as a unified construct accounted for a significant amount of variance in both criterion variables (range ΔR² = .29–.56; all ps
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