When individuals are engaging in behavior that is under aversive control, the behavior becomes relatively insensitive to changes in the environment except for escape or avoidance contingencies. Teaching individuals to increase behavioral and psychological flexibility in the presence of potentially aversive stimuli is a goal of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT therapists use personal values to motivate clients to engage in meaningful behaviors despite ever-changing, and often aversive, contexts. The aim of the current study was to examine the effects of a values intervention on participant's willingness to approach established aversive stimuli. College students (n = 200) completed questionnaires and participated in behavioral approach tasks with aversive stimuli. Individuals were more likely to approach if approach was related to a personal value versus a relatively arbitrary reward (i.e. tickets) or without any specified consequence. Psychological inflexibility did not moderate the relationship between condition and approach. However, the values intervention condition did produce greater levels of approach than the control conditions. Previous studies have examined the impact of combined values and acceptance interventions. The evidence from this study suggests that values interventions alone may influence behavior.

当个人从事受到厌恶控制的行为时，该行为对环境的变化变得相对不敏感，除了逃避或避免的意外情况。教导个人在存在潜在厌恶性刺激的情况下增加行为和心理灵活性是接受和承诺疗法（ACT）的目标。ACT治疗师使用个人价值观来激励客户采取有意义的行为，尽管情况不断变化且常常令人反感。当前研究的目的是检验价值干预对参与者采取既定厌恶刺激意愿的影响。大学生（n = 200）完成了问卷并参加了带有厌恶刺激的行为方法任务。如果与个人价值有关的进取相对于相对任意的奖励（即入场券）或没有任何特定后果，则个人更倾向于进出。心理上的僵硬并不能缓解病情与进路之间的关系。但是，值干预条件的确比控制条件产生了更高的逼近度。先前的研究已经检验了合并价值和接受干预措施的影响。这项研究的证据表明，单独进行价值观干预可能会影响行为。