Clinical Psychology Unit, School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Discipline of Clinical Psychology, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
J Clin Psychol. 2022 Dec;78(12):2609-2630. doi: 10.1002/jclp.23370. Epub 2022 May 5.
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.
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.
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.
痛苦耐受力(DT)被发现与抑郁症状和其他各种重要的心理状况的发展和维持有关。因此,拥有有效且易于管理的 DT 测量方法至关重要。本研究旨在检验在具有不同程度自我报告抑郁症状的大量人群中,使用《痛苦耐受力量表》(DTS)和其简式版本《痛苦耐受力量表简式》(DTS-SF)的因子结构、心理测量特性和临床实用性。
共有 959 名参与者完成了一个在线问卷系列,其中包括对抑郁症状的评估以及 DTS 和相关测量。
验证性因子分析验证了 DTS 的四因子结构和 DTS-SF 的一因子结构。DTS 和 DTS-SF 均表现出良好的结构效度和良好的内部一致性。
总体而言,本文为 DTS 和问卷的简式版本,即 DTS-SF 的有效性、可靠性和区分能力提供了新的证据。