The relationship between distress tolerance and symptoms of depression: validation of the Distress Tolerance Scale (DTS) and short-form (DTS-SF)
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OBJECTIVE: Distress tolerance (DT) has been found to be implicated in the development and maintenance of depressive symptomatology and various other significant psychological conditions. As such, it is critical to have measures of DT that are effective and easy to administer. This study aimed to examine the factor structure, psychometric properties, and clinical utility of the Distress Tolerance Scale (DTS) and the short-form version, the Distress Tolerance Scale Short-form (DTS-SF), in a large population of individuals with varying levels of self-reported depressive symptoms. METHOD: A total of 959 participants completed an online battery of questionnaires which included an assessment of depressive symptoms as well as the DTS and related measures. Results: Confirmatory factor analyses validated the four-factor structure of the DTS and the one-factor structure of the DTS-SF. Good construct validity and good internal consistency were observed across both the DTS and DTS-SF. CONCLUSION: Overall, this paper provides new evidence for the validity, reliability and discriminative ability of the DTS and the brief version of the questionnaire, the DTS-SF.
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The DTS has shown good psychometric properties.
“The DTS has shown good psychometric properties (R. J. Brown et al., 2022; Simons and Gaher, 2005).”
From Feeling more confident to encounter negative emotions: The mediating role of distress tolerance on the relationship between self-efficacy and outcomes of exposure and response prevention for OCD (2024) · cites this paper as R. J. Brown et al., 2022
The DTS-SF has demonstrated good psychometric properties in both OCD and non-clinical populations.
“The DTS-SF has demonstrated good psychometric properties in both populations with OCD (Garner et al., 2018) and non-clinical populations (Brown et al., 2022).”
From Feeling more confident to encounter negative emotions: The mediating role of distress tolerance on the relationship between self-efficacy and outcomes of exposure and response prevention for OCD (2024) · cites this paper as Brown et al., 2022
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- Authors
- Brown, R. J., Burton, A. L., & Abbott, M. J.
- Affiliations
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- University of Technology Sydney (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Burton, Amy L.
- Venue
- Journal of Clinical Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2022-05-05
- Volume
- 78
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 2609-2630
- ISSN
- 0021-9762 (ISSN-L)
- 1097-4679
- PMC
- PMC9790670
- OpenAlex
- W4229031471
- Cited by
- 39
- References
- 95
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 6.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Clinical Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Keywords
- distress tolerance, Distress Tolerance Scale, short-form scale, depressive symptoms, factor structure, psychometric validation, construct validity, internal consistency, questionnaire validation
- MeSH terms
- Depression, Factor Analysis, Statistical, Humans, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reproducibility of Results
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