Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA.
J Anxiety Disord. 2013 Jan;27(1):147-54. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2012.12.003. Epub 2012 Dec 27.
Emerging work has identified several related constructs that appear to be relevant to anxiety psychopathology including anxiety sensitivity (AS), distress tolerance (DT) and discomfort intolerance (DI). AS refers to the fear of the consequences of anxiety-related sensations. DT measures tolerance of negative emotions, whereas DI measures tolerance of uncomfortable physical sensations. Questions, however, have been raised regarding the overlap among AS, DT, and DI. The present study conducted confirmatory factor analyses to test three models of emotional and physical tolerance to determine which model provided the best fit for the associations among AS, DT, and DI. Nonclinical individuals (N = 411) and individuals with anxiety psychopathology (N = 253) completed self-report questionnaires. Results supported a hierarchical factor structure with 2 higher order factors with AS as a lower order factor of DT. The implications of these findings for the conceptualization of the relationships among AS, DT, and DI are discussed.
新兴的研究已经确定了几个似乎与焦虑病理相关的相关结构，包括焦虑敏感性（AS）、痛苦耐受力（DT）和不适耐受力（DI）。AS 是指对与焦虑相关的感觉的后果的恐惧。DT 衡量对负面情绪的容忍度，而 DI 则衡量对身体不适的容忍度。然而，关于 AS、DT 和 DI 之间的重叠问题存在疑问。本研究进行了验证性因素分析，以测试三种情感和身体耐受力模型，以确定哪种模型最适合 AS、DT 和 DI 之间的关联。非临床个体（N=411）和焦虑症患者（N=253）完成了自我报告问卷。结果支持了一个层次结构的因素结构，其中 AS 是 DT 的一个较低阶因素。这些发现对 AS、DT 和 DI 之间关系的概念化的影响进行了讨论。
