title: The role of acceptance in psychological functioning in adolescents with cystic fibrosis: a preliminary study.
abstract: This study explored the role of acceptance in accounting for the heterogeneity in psychological functioning in adolescents suffering from cystic fibrosis. Thirty-four adolescents completed a battery of questionnaires assessing acceptance, anxiety, depression, and disability. Regression analyses revealed that acceptance had a significant and unique contribution in explaining adolescents' anxiety, depression, and disability beyond the effects of demographic variables and parameters of disease severity. Forced expiratory volume, a parameter of disease severity, had a unique contribution in explaining disability, but not in explaining anxiety and depression. Our results support the idea that accepting the limitations imposed by a chronic disease and readjusting life goals has a positive effect upon psychological functioning in adolescents with cystic fibrosis. Acceptance-based therapies might prove useful in promoting well-being in adolescents with cystic fibrosis.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology , Ghent University , Henri Dunantlaan 2 , Ghent , 9000 Belgium.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Casier
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Goubert
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Huse
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Theunis
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Franckx
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Robberecht
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Matthys
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Crombez
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003550:Cystic Fibrosis / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: acceptance; cystic fibrosis; psychological functioning