Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium

Angel, an undergraduate research assistant in the lab, recently presented research at the Mississippi State University Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium.

She shared her research from one of our recent survey studies, where she investigated the relationship between psychological inflexibility and gender differences in momentary affective states among college students. She found that, regardless of gender, men and women reported similar levels of all the measured psychological flexibility components (experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, acceptance, and cognitive fusion) during times of above-average negative affect.

These results highlight the need the study psychological inflexibility beyond gender stereotypes, potentially looking into other factors such as cultural influences and socioeconomic status to investigate their relationship with gender in shaping psychological flexibility.