Perceived emotion regulation and emotional distress tolerance in patients with hoarding disorder.

ABSTRACT: Emotional distress tolerance (EDT) and emotion regulation (ER) appear to be highly relevant to hoarding pathology, as excessive saving and/or acquiring may be motivated by emotional avoidance or other attempts to regulate negative affect. While findings with nonclinical samples have suggested and EDT/ER predicts hoarding symptoms, there is little data on clinical samples. The aim of the current study was to examine several self-report measures of EDT and ER in individuals with HD (n = 87) and age-matched nonclinical controls (n = 46), and to explore whether this was predictive of treatment compliance and/or outcome in group CBT for HD. Results suggested that, the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS; Gratz & Roemer, 2004) total score, DERS goals and awareness subscales, and Intol

SUBMITTER: Worden B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7430655 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature