Spain, one of the European countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, underwent a strict lockdown between March and May 2020. This study examines longitudinally the evolution of both psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms in a sample of college students from the beginning and throughout the end of the mandated lockdown period. We present the results from 197 participants who responded to an online survey at least at two of three data-collection waves scheduled at the beginning (N = 226), halfway (N = 172), and end (N = 188) of the lockdown. The analyses revealed that psychological inflexibility and symptomatology increased over time, and that inflexibility at the beginning of the lockdown indirectly predicted self-reported symptoms at the end of the lockdown via autoregressive parallel paths that also connected cross-sectionally to reveal that changes in inflexibility were predictive of changes in mental health. These results present a dynamic and robust relationship between psychological inflexibility and mental health symptoms throughout a relatively long and presumably stressful period of time.

西班牙是受COVID-19大流行影响最严重的欧洲国家之一，在2020年3月至2020年5月之间进行了严格的封锁。这项研究从一开始就从纵向和纵向研究了样本中大学生心理僵硬和心理健康症状的演变。在规定的锁定期结束后。我们介绍了197位参与者的结果，这些参与者至少在锁定的开始（N = 226），中途（N = 172）和结束（N = 188）计划的三个数据收集波中的两个响应了在线调查。分析表明，随着时间的流逝，心理上的僵硬和症状会增加，锁定开始时的不灵活性通过自回归平行路径间接预测了锁定结束时的自我报告症状，该自回归平行路径也以横截面方式连接以显示不灵活性的变化预示着心理健康的变化。这些结果显示了在相对较长且可能是压力较长的时间段内，心理僵硬与心理健康症状之间存在动态而牢固的关系。