The Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire (BEAQ) is a 15-item short form of the Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire. This study aimed to investigate psychometric properties of a German translation of the BEAQ in a student and a clinical population. The BEAQ showed high internal reliability and overall acceptable convergent and discriminant validity. The BEAQ displayed adequate 7- to 13-day test–retest reliability and captured changes in experiential avoidance when experiential avoidance was targeted in treatment. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that a bifactor structure where the BEAQ is modeled as one general and five specific factors that correspond to the Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire subscales fit the data adequately. All items (except Item 1 in the clinical population) loaded on the general factor and common variance was approximately equally spread across the general and specific factors. The Distress Endurance subscale was not included in this model, since it is represented by only one item, which showed poor performances and low associations to the BEAQ’s total score in both samples. We recommend further research into the BEAQ’s factor structure to substantiate our preliminary findings.

简要经验回避问卷 (BEAQ) 是多维经验回避问卷的 15 项简短形式。本研究旨在调查 BEAQ 德语翻译在学生和临床人群中的心理测量特性。BEAQ 显示出较高的内部信度和总体可接受的收敛效度和区分效度。BEAQ 显示了足够的 7 至 13 天的重测信度，并在以体验回避为治疗目标时捕捉到体验回避的变化。验证性因素分析表明，BEAQ 被建模为与多维经验回避问卷子量表相对应的一个一般因素和五个特定因素的双因素结构与数据充分吻合。加载在一般因素和共同方差上的所有项目（临床人群中的项目 1 除外）在一般因素和特定因素中大致均等地分布。该模型中不包括遇险耐力子量表，因为它仅由一个项目代表，在两个样本中表现不佳且与 BEAQ 总分的关联性较低。我们建议对 BEAQ 的因子结构进行进一步研究，以证实我们的初步调查结果。