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Maternal and adolescent distress tolerance: the moderating role of gender

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Daughters, Stacey B., Gorka, Stephanie M., Rutherford, Helena J. V., Mayes, Linda C.·2014·Emotion

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Distress tolerance is defined behaviorally as the ability to maintain goal-directed behavior while experiencing physical or psychological distress. Distress tolerance is closely related to emotion regulation and is a clinically relevant construct contributing to psychopathology across adults and adolescents, yet limited research has examined the development of this construct. A number of studies suggest the importance of parenting in the emergence of emotion regulation capacities in childhood and adolescence. In the current study, we utilize a behavioral measure of distress tolerance to examine whether maternal distress tolerance is related to adolescent distress tolerance, and whether this association differs as a function of gender. We also examine the influence of family emotional climate, namely maternal response to adolescent distress and adolescent attachment. Results indicate a significant maternal distress tolerance by adolescent gender interaction, such that maternal distress tolerance predicts adolescent distress tolerance in daughters, but not sons. The family emotional climate variables were unrelated to maternal or adolescent distress tolerance. Taken together, data indicate that maternal distress tolerance is significantly related to the distress tolerance of adolescent daughters and indicates the potential utility of addressing maternal distress tolerance in clinical work with adolescents.

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Authors
Daughters, S. B., Gorka, S. M., Rutherford, H. J. V., & Mayes, L. C.
Affiliations
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
  • Yale University (US)
Venue
Emotion
Published
2014
Volume
14
Issue
2
Pages
416-424
ISSN
  • 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
  • 1931-1516
OpenAlex
W2317672131
Cited by
40
References
49
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FWCI
3.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Emotion (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
  • UNC Libraries
Funders
National Institute of Drug Abuse (R21DA022741)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
Keywords
distress tolerance, gender differences, emotion regulation, parenting, family emotional climate, adolescent attachment
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Mothers, Sex Factors, Stress, Psychological

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