Distress tolerance and psychopathological symptoms and disorders: A review of the empirical literature among adults.

We review theory and empirical study of distress tolerance, an emerging risk factor candidate for various forms of psychopathology. Despite the long-standing interest in and promise of work on distress tolerance for understanding adult psychopathology, there has not been a comprehensive review of the extant empirical literature focused on the construct. As a result, a comprehensive synthesis of theoretical and empirical scholarship on distress tolerance, including integration of extant research on the relations between distress tolerance and psychopathology, is lacking. Inspection of the scientific literature indicates that there are a number of promising ways to conceptualize and measure distress tolerance,…

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  National Institute on Drug Abuse

  Award: 1 R01 MH076629-01; 1 R01 DA018734-01A1; R03 DA16307-01