Measurement of psychological inflexibility: an examination of the psychometric properties of the AAQ-3 compared to AAQ-II

Table 1 Descriptive statistics, item analysis and factor loading (N = 1572)

Items	Descriptive statistics				Differences between groups (M ± SD)			I-T	Factor loading
Items	M	SD	Skewness	kurtosis	High	Low	t	I-T	AAQ-3
Item 1	3.40	1.41	0.17	-0.24	4.46 ± 1.01	2.15 ± 0.99	25.19^***	0.67	0.71
Item 2	3.78	1.36	-0.03	-0.07	4.74 ± 1.03	2.46 ± 1.05	25.24^***	0.74	0.78
Item 3	3.67	1.49	0.13	-0.35	4.74 ± 1.58	2.27 ± 1.09	25.17^***	0.70	0.75
Item 4	3.01	1.42	0.44	-0.14	4.19 ± 1.16	1.66 ± 0.77	30.33^***	0.74	0.79
Item 5	3.50	1.45	0.15	-0.46	4.63 ± 1.10	2.32 ± 0.93	29.12^***	0.72	0.76
Item 6	3.54	1.34	0.17	-0.18	4.51 ± 1.04	2.32 ± 1.00	24.69^***	0.68	0.72
Item 7	3.23	1.38	0.14	-0.11	4.60 ± 1.01	2.16 ± 0.93	28.68^***	0.73	0.77

Note: ^*, p < 0.05;^**, p < 0.01; ^***, p < 0.001, I-T = The correlations between items and total scores of AAQ-3

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