The Distress Tolerance Scale: Development and Validation of a Self-Report Measure

By J. Simons, Raluca M. Gaher. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Distress Tolerance and Psychopathological Symptoms and Disorders: A Review of the Empirical Literature among Adults (2010, methodology): “…Scale Depression/Depressive Sxs (O’Cleirigh et al.,2007 ; Simons & Gaher, 2005) No No evidence Substance Use Motives (O’Cleirigh et al., 2007; Simons & Gaher, 2005; Zvolensky et al., 2009) No No evidence Substance Use Problems (Buckner et al., 2007; Simons & Gaher, 2005) No No…”
Enhanced Anger Reactivity and Reduced Distress Tolerance in Major Depressive Disorder (2013, background): “…suggest that distress tolerance, especially in MDD, may involve the interplay of (1) the tolerance for negative or distressing emotions (e.g., Simons and Gaher 2005) as well as, (2) the behavioral component of task persistence, in spite of negative affect (e. g., Roemer et al. 2009;…”
Something to Lose and Nothing to Gain (2011, background): “, 2005; Simons and Gaher, 2005). Furthermore, to examine the robustness of our effects, 544 Administrative Science Quarterly 56 (2011)”
Experiential Avoidance and Emotion Regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder (2011, background): “Distress tolerance has been defined as the capacity to experience and to withstand negative psychological states ( Simmons and Gaher 2005 ).”
Incurious Motives to Seek Information about Potential Threats (2010, background): “Likewise, the possible overlap between IWRM and constructs such as distress tolerance (Simons & Gaher, 2005), which involves focusing on and endeavouring to eliminate distress, and experiential avoidance (Hayes, Luoma, Bond, Masuda, & Lillis, 2006), which also motivates efforts to alleviate…”
Maladaptive emotion regulation and aggression in adult offenders (2014, background): “…skills are thought to be associated with an adaptive emotion regulation style: emotional awareness, emotional acceptance, and access to a variety of emotion regulation strategies (Berking & Znoj, 2008; Bonanno, Papa, Lalande, Westphal, & Coifman, 2004; Gratz & Roemer, 2004; Greenberg et al., 2007).”
The Effects of Boredom, Loneliness, and Distress Tolerance on Problem Internet Use Among University Students (2016, background): “The ability to deal with such a state is referred to as distress tolerance (Simons and Gaher 2005).”
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) enhances distress tolerance and resilience through changes in mindfulness (2016, methodology): “The scale has demonstrated high internal consistency and good test-retest reliability (Simons & Gaher, 2005).”
Promoting Stress Management and Wellbeing in Educators: Feasibility and Efficacy of a School-Based Yoga and Mindfulness Intervention (2016, methodology): “The Distress Tolerance Scale (DTS; Simons and Gaher 2005)”
Emotion Regulation Deficits as Mediators Between Trauma Exposure and Borderline Symptoms (2013, background): “In addition, previous research has indicated significant associations between distress tolerance and meta-emotion constructs of mood acceptance and mood typicality (Simons and Gaher 2005).”