Examining the Structure of Distress Tolerance: Are Behavioral and Self-Report Indicators Assessing the Same Construct?

ABSTRACT: Distress tolerance, or the ability to tolerate physically and emotionally aversive experiences, is a target of psychological intervention in contextual behavioral science. It has been conceptualized as a self-reported ability, as well as a behavioral tendency, and operationalized with a wide variability of questionnaires and behavioral tasks. The current study aimed to investigate whether behavioral tasks and self-report assessments of distress tolerance measure the same underlying dimension, two correlated dimensions, or whether method factors accounted for covariation above and beyond a general content dimension. A university student sample (N = 288) completed behavioral tasks associated with distress tolerance and self-report distress tolerance measures. Confirmatory factor analy

SUBMITTER: Hsu T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9997101 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature