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Multimethod study of distress tolerance and PTSD symptom severity in a trauma‐exposed community sample
Author(s) -
MarshallBerenz Erin C.,
Vujanovic Anka A.,
BonnMiller Marcel O.,
Bernstein Amit,
Zvolensky Michael J.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1002/jts.20568
Subject(s) - neuroticism , distress , clinical psychology , psychology , posttraumatic stress , anxiety disorder , severity of illness , stressor , psychiatry , trait , anxiety , personality , social psychology , computer science , programming language
Despite initial evidence linking distress tolerance to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity, there is a need for the investigation of interrelations among multiple measures of distress tolerance and PTSD symptom severity. Therefore, the present study investigated concurrent relations among multiple measures of distress tolerance, as well as the relations between these measures and PTSD symptom severity, within a trauma‐exposed community sample. The sample consisted of 81 trauma‐exposed adults (63.1% women). Results indicated that Distress Tolerance Scale (Simons & Gaher, 2005) scores, but no other measures of distress tolerance were significantly related to PTSD symptom severity above and beyond the variance accounted for by number of traumas, trait‐level neuroticism, and participant sex. Implications and future directions are discussed.